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from the press conference to present the 74th Sanremo Festival, which opens tomorrow, Tuesday 6 February
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"I find the tractor protest absolutely right, sacrosanct, for the right to work and the protection of one's job.
But no one has contacted me and I have not contacted anyone", says Amadeus, in the press room in Sanremo, after the request of the farmers to have hospitality at the festival.
Fiorello jokes about it: "It would be good for them to arrive, you don't find a stage like this every day, I'm appealing to them to come".
And Amadeus: "If they come I'll let them go on stage."
And the response from Danilo Calvani, leader of the Committee of Betrayed Farmers, was not long in coming. "One of our representatives will go on stage at Sanremo".
"We are in contact with the Festival organization to establish the details" added Calvani.
Never received pressure from RAI to hold a Melonian festival
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“I can disprove anything.”
Amadeus sends back to the sender the accusations of having had to follow instructions from the company to avoid scandals and controversies in Sanremo.
"I met Sergio as soon as he became CEO and he told me: 'you can continue to do the festival freely as you have done in the last 4 years'. He never made a phone call to ask me who will be there. In previous festivals I never looked for things sensational on the table."
And he concluded: "My festivals are not partisan, in the past I have been attacked from both the right and the left."
Tomorrow, for the first evening, "Giò Giò's mother"
, Giovan Battista Cutolo, the young musician killed in the street in Naples after an argument, will arrive on the Sanremo stage.
Amadeus announced it at the press conference.
Thursday on stage "Stefano Massini and Paolo Jannacci with a beautiful song that refers to deaths at work, a song that will touch us a lot".
This year, he further explains, "there will be no institutional presence at the festival", after "last year Mattarella gave a great gift to the Italians", nor "monologues".
"However, there will be some personal testimonies: Giovanni Allevi will return to the stage after two terrible years: I met him and he, in addition to playing, will be a testimonial of his battle, spokesperson for those who find themselves in his situation", recalls the artistic director.
And on Amadeus 6 hosting
the festival he says: "I am in love with Sanremo, but everything must end. I am flattered by the affection of Rai and the public, but I believe that five years are enough to close, I hope, with a beautiful party However, I will remain in love with Sanremo for life."
For further information Agenzia ANSA Fiorello and Amadeus in front of the Ariston with the band - News - Ansa.it Unpublished party at dawn with Viva Rai2!... Long live Sanremo!
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