Geolier,
Irama, Annalisa, Loredana Bertè, Mahmood
:
it is the top five of the second evening of the Sanremo festival
.
The ranking was drawn up based on the approval of the new Radio and Televoting jury.
The
evening of the
Sanremo
festival
takes off immediately with
Giorgia's pure talent
.
But it is the return to public of
Giovanni Allevi
, after two years of treatment for myeloma, that leaves its mark.
Wrapped in the warm embrace of the audience, who welcomed him with a long ovation, the musician recounts his journey through pain and raises his hymn to the beauty of life and solidarity: "Suddenly everything collapsed for me. I no longer play the piano in front of an audience for almost two years. In my last concert, at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the pain in my back was so bad that during the final applause I couldn't get up from the stool. And I still didn't know I was sick. Then came the diagnosis, very serious", he explains.
"I lost my job, my hair, my certainties, but not my hope and the desire to imagine, as if the pain gave me unexpected gifts."
And he lists some of them, "gratitude towards the beauty of creation", "gratitude for the affection, the strength, the example that I receive from other patients, the warriors, as I call them" and the certainty that, "when everything collapses and only the essential remains standing, the judgment we receive from the outside no longer counts".
He quotes Kant, he discovers his regrown gray curls and then he plays Tomorrow, a song written during his long hospitalizations.
But first he warns: "No longer being able to rely on my body, I will play with all my soul."
Everyone stood up for him, even the orchestra.
The Ariston standing ovation also rewards
Giorgia
, who thirty years later enchants with E Poi, playing with the twirls of her voice.
Even the medley is thrilling: Oronero, Gocce di memoria, Quando una stella die, Di sole e d'azzurro, Come saprei.
Everyone on their feet also for Loredana Bertè, who thrills with her Crazy.
Wasted opportunity instead with
John Travolta
: after having mentioned the steps of Saturday Night Fever and Grease with the fan Amadeus, he ends up embarrassingly dancing the qua qua dance with Fiorello.
And social media doesn't forgive.
At the beginning, however, the Hollywood star pays homage to Fellini: "I saw La strada for the first time when I was four years old, I fell in love with Giulietta Masina".
After the marathon of thirty artists on the first evening, on this second evening fifteen performed, introduced by the other colleagues.
La Sad in tuxedo and mohawks down to present Renga and Nek
Sad
amazes again with an unexpected look: tuxedo and colored crests down.
But the surprise is around the corner, or rather behind us.
When you turn the back of the jacket it portrays the face of the punk version of Amadeus.
The trio, hunting for Fantasanremo points, also takes advantage of the opportunity for a quick twerking.
I am on stage to present Renga and Nek, on the evening in which the competing artists present other competing artists for the first time.
Giorgia takes the Ariston with 'E poi' 30 years later
Standing ovation for Giorgia
, co-host of the evening alongside Amadeus, at the end of her performance to the tune of E poi.
The Roman artist, in a tailcoat with very long tails and shorts, enchanted the audience in the room.
With her voice she takes the Ariston and does what she wants with it.
The song brought her to the limelight 30 years ago, and to celebrate her anniversary, Ama enters the stage with a cake on which a candle stands out.
Photo story Giorgia takes the Ariston with And then 30 years later - Photo - Ansa.it
Then Giorgia returns to the stage and with Amadeus takes out the cassette tapes from the trunk of memories, which sixty years ago made music "portable".
And a new standing ovation for the artist when he proposed a medley of his hits closed by 'Come saprei', the winning song of Sanremo in 1995.
Dargen D'Amico: 'I didn't want to be political, I was guided by love'.
Diodato to Dargen: 'I share your call for a ceasefire'
"I wanted to go back to what I said last night. When I got home I started reading something and I got worried when I saw that mine was a political message. I didn't want to be political: I've done a lot of bullshit in my life, even serious sins, but I never thought of approaching politics."
So Dargen D'Amico, after singing his Onda Alta
, returns to the message launched in the early evening for a ceasefire in the Middle East.
"I was guided by love and the feeling that there are more and more things we have in common and that's what I would like to focus on," he concluded.
Shortly before, Diodato, in the guise of the presenter singer, welcomed Dargen D'Amico saying: "I am very happy to introduce you, especially after the beautiful words you said yesterday and which I fully agree with".
"Our silence is co-responsibility: history and God do not accept a silent scene. Cease fire".
The mascots of Milano Cortina 2026 in Sanremo
Two very lively stoats will be the mascots of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They made their debut on the stage of the Sanremo Festival.
The mascot with the light coat is called Tina and will represent the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Milo, her brother with the brown coat, will instead be the testimonial of the next Paralympic Winter Games.
Their names are the diminutives of those of the two protagonist locations: Tina from Cortina, Milo from Milan.
Gianluca Ginoble comes down to the audience and brings flowers to his mother
"Let me do something, a more unique than rare opportunity."
Gianluca Ginoble from Il Volo, after singing the song Capolavoro with his trio mates, took the bouquet of flowers offered by Amadeus and ran into the audience to reach his mother and give them to her.
Gianluca hugged his mother and then also greeted his brother, sitting next to him.
Long applause at Ariston upon Giovanni Allevi's entrance
Warm, long applause welcomed Giovanni Allevi at the Ariston, as he entered the scene after two years of absence and battle against illness.
Photo story Allevi returns to the piano, emotion overwhelms Ariston - News - Ansa.it
Amadeus: 'Ariston is the biggest dance hall in Europe with my Romagna'
"The Ariston has become the largest dance hall in Europe. Long live the ballroom, long live Romagna": this is how Amadeus greeted the Santa Balera group, made up of representatives of generation Z, an orchestra of 15 musicians and 10 dancers, who they performed at the Ariston together with Mirko Casadei in homage to the 70 years of my Romagna.
"The youngest is the bassist of Santa Balera, he is 12 years old", said the host and artistic director, bringing onto the stage the original score of Romagna mia by Maestro Secondo Casadei, Raoul's uncle, Mirko's father.
"It is the tradition of the ballroom that continues", said Amadeus, concluding: "Let's not forget the drama experienced by Romagna".
BigMama to the queer community: 'Love each other freely, you can do it'
"I dedicate my song to the entire queer community, love each other freely: you can do it."
So BigMama at the end of the performance of her song La Rabbia is not enough for you.
The young artist also took the opportunity to score points at Fantasanremo by high-fiving her with Il Tre, who introduced her, taking a broom and twerking.
Travolta dances the 'qua qua dance' with Fiorello and Amadeus
The qua qua qua dance: this is the idea that came to Fiorello to involve John Travolta in an unusual number.
And so the interpreter of Saturday Night Fever and Grease, after having 'paid his dues' with the fan Amadeus on stage by mentioning the steps from his famous films, leaves the theater and, rather embarrassed, takes part in the gag.
For further information Agenzia ANSA John Travolta dances the 'qua qua dance' with Fiorello and Amadeus - The Guests - Ansa.it
Stash: 'I thank maestro Allevi for yet another lesson'
"As a human being I want to thank maestro Giovanni Allevi for yet another lesson he gave us", says Stash, at the end of the performance with The Kolors to the overwhelming rhythm of Un boy una girl.
The cast of Mare Fuori at the Ariston with the new words of love
Listen, welcome, accept, learn, truth, alongside, no ("which defines the perimeter of our will, the highest declaration of love that can be made"), together ("the most precious word, the one in which to invest for the future"): these are the new words of love, those chosen by the writer Matteo Bussola to make it clear that "change can and must be made" against violence against women, brought to the Ariston stage by the cast of Mare Fuori.
Loredana Bertè on stage with the red anti-violence bow
A small red bow, symbol of the fight against violence against women and of the international fight against AIDS, appears this evening on the white shirt of Loredana Bertè, who has always been on the front line for the defense of rights.
Amadeus awards 60 years of career award to Gaetano Castelli
"When music meets a stage like this, everything becomes magical": with these words Amadeus celebrated the architect Gaetano Castelli, "architect of this art", accompanying him onto the Ariston stage to give him the audience's applause.
Castelli designed the sets for all five consecutive Amadeus Festivals.
In total he created 22 sets for Sanremo (the first in 1987, an edition with record ratings hosted by Pippo Baudo and won by Umberto Tozzi, Enrico Ruggeri and Gianni Morandi ed.) of which the last nine, including this one, together with his daughter Chiara.
It was Chiara herself who presented her father with the 60 Years of Career Award - City of Sanremo.
Gaetano Castelli said "thanks to Rai, to the scenography workers, stagehands, builders, painters, decorators and to all those who contribute".
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