Match. The 72nd Italian Song Festival has started on Rai1. Immediately a novelty, indeed, even before starting, with Amadeus that for the first time in the history of him and of the Festival, becomes a title of Tg1. “I am excited: it is the first time that I happen to make the headline of Tg1 …” said the conductor a few minutes after the start of the singing event.
Shortly before the start of the Festival, the words of the president of Rai, Marinella Soldi, also reached the microphones of Rai1. “For me it is a great pleasure to be here, for the first time in attendance, the Festival is an extraordinary celebration of music and joy but it also demonstrates what Rai can do with extraordinary teamwork. our audience, young and old, and among other things it also takes us to the next Eurovision Song Contest event (in Turin, ed) thanks to the Maneskin victory here last year “.
The evening of the singers in the competition Achille Lauro opens with “Domenica”. There is great anticipation for the return to the stage of the Maneskin’s Ariston. The lineup of the early evening
The theme song in Eurovision, the entry of Amadeus and then off to the music with twelve artists competing and Fiorello as a ‘free hitter’, the great return of the Maneskin, the presence of Matteo Berrettini, number one in Italian tennis and the class of Ornella Muti icon of Italian cinema. Everything is ready for the start of the first evening of the 72nd Sanremo Festival.
Here is the lineup: we start with the first singer in the competition: Achille Lauro feat. Harlem Gospel Choir. Then to follow Yuman, Noemi and Gianni Morandi. Then Fiorello enters the scene with his friend Amadeus and resumes with the race: The Representative of the Scene and Michele Bravi. One of the most anticipated moments will follow.
On the stage that consecrated them in 2021, the Maneskins are back, fresh from international successes. Still other artists competing: Massimo Ranieri, Mahmood & Blanco. Then space for number six in the ATP ranking: Matteo Berrettini in Sanremo.
The ninth ‘big’ singer to perform will be Ana Mena followed by Rkomi. Again the Maneskin and away with the performance of the eleventh competing artist: Dargen D’Amico. A connection with the Tuscan coast is also foreseen. The Italian musical duo Colapesce Dimartino, the actor Claudio Gioe are awaited until the performance of Giusy Ferreri, the twelfth ‘big’ of this evening.
End of the evening with Raul Bova and Nino Frassica, the Meduza, the tribute to Franco Battiato, a brief summary of the 12 songs heard in the competition,Amadeus moved by the audience in the hall
“Either the age, since I’m about to turn 60, or it’s the presence of the audience: we missed you so much. Welcome back”. Amadeus was moved by entering the stage at the beginning of the first evening of the 72nd Sanremo Festival, seeing the audience again in the stalls. The art director said “welcome back” with shining eyes. Then he thanked all of Rai, from the top to all those who have worked for the event in these three years. Then he presented the first singer in the competition, Achille Lauro with ‘Domenica’. Achille Lauro opens the big race
Shirtless, with tattoos clearly visible, and black leather pants, Achille Lauro makes his appearance on the stage of the Ariston to open the Big competition with his Sunday together with the Harlem Gosperl Choir. “I put myself next to him – jokes Amadeus – because at this moment he is an audience”.
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Sanremo 2022, performance by Achille Lauro Ornella Muti arrives
First entry on the Ariston stage for Ornella Muti, co-host of this first evening of the Sanremo Festival: long golden dress with plunging neckline, Amadeus congratulates herself on the perfection with which she descended the dreaded staircase leading to the stage. Ornella Muti showed up on the Ariston stage in a ‘nude’ dress signed by the Neapolitan designer Francesco Scognamiglio who also dresses Lady Gaga. Among the controversies that accompanied her presence in Sanremo, in addition to the use of cannabis and an old judicial dispute with the Pordenone theater, also the ‘abjuration’ of her historical stylist, Gorgio Armani, in favor of the ‘king’ of ‘ecogreen.
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Sanremo 2022, Ornella Muti and Amadeus Canta Yuman, the winner of Sanremo Giovani
The second to sing at the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Festival was Yuman, an artist who won a place among the big names in the competition thanks to the victory of Sanremo Giovani. Yuri Santos, born in this way, 26 years old, a Roman mother and a Cape Verdean pope, sang “Ora e qui”, a song written together with Tommaso Di Giulio. “The main theme of the piece is happiness. Noemi’s seventh time
Noemi returns to the Sanremo Festival for the seventh time, the second in a row after the experience of the last edition with “Glicine”, one of the most listened to by the public once the doors of the Ariston are closed. She sings “I love you I don’t know how to say”, a song written (also) by Mahmood, also competing in this 72nd edition. Her best result at the Festival dates back to 2012, when she closed the event on the lowest step of the podium with “Sono solo parole”, which then became one of the workhorses of her repertoire. That year the trio in front of everyone was made up only of women (Emma in first place, also competing again this year, and Arisa), an event that Noemi, admitted, hopes for this 2022 edition as well.
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Sanremo 2022 , L’And the turn of Gianni Morandi
After the emotion of Amadeus at the beginning of the evening, and the turn of Gianni Morandi. In competition at the Sanremo Festival after 22 years, with “Open all doors”, he arrives on stage very elegant, takes a running step towards the microphone and then receives a long applause that makes him move. Fiorello’s first “foray”
“Here is the Mattarella of entertainment, here is my friend Rosario Fiorello” and thus Amadeus announces the entrance into Fiorello’s Ariston which runs throughout the theater. He is dressed completely in black, including sunglasses, and has a temperature sensor in his hand.
“This year I would have gladly seen you from home, but you wanted me to come”. She read it on some sheets given to him by an Amadeus stage attendant, who thus introduced Fiorello to the notes of his famous song ‘San Martino’. Then he did his he show with his friend Amadeus. He started by addressing the audience with “I miss you, I’m here for the third time, I’m your third dose”. Then he joked: “They bump me every day, I should have stayed at home with the blanket on my legs, but because in Sanremo they bump so much
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“Here is the Mattarella of entertainment – announces Amadeus – my ex friend Rosario Fiorello”.
“I heard Mattarella, I talked to him, he had already made his plans, next year he wanted to do The Voice Senior”, said Fiorello on the stage of the Ariston, making the whole audience sing a chorus for the President of the Republic. Then he added: “Draghi would have liked to have been President of the Republic, he had already prepared the year-end speech to unified banks”.
An ironic hint of the vote in the press room: “How much did the journalist of the Osservatore Romano have given to Achille Lauro
“.” The first time – he says – I came for friendship, the second time to confirm the friendship, the third time to break the friendship. Next time we have to meet at the funeral. So if our Lord calls you are with the A “.” He laughs, he is a friend – he adds – but it is the absolute evil, he stalked me to the limits of bullying. Then every time he has something to say he goes to Tg1, by now people will think that he is a virologist. “For next year, he adds,” do not trust him when he says he does not want to do it “, he says at the top of Rai. “but I have the name for the artistic director: general Figliuolo”.
“He did everything to make me come, once in a very cold day, there was his son under my house with a sign that says ‘Do not abandon dad’. Who then says that he makes me come here because I bring him luck. But that I am a lucky charm
“, he concluded.
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Sanremo 2022, the entry of Fiorello The kiss between Amadeus and the director Coletta
A propitiatory kiss and with masks even if with a lot of red lips on the tips: and what Fiorello somehow imposes – the threat is ‘otherwise the Festival will go very badly, worse than the Festival of the Christian song which is taking place nearby!’ – to Amadeus and to the director of Rai1, Stefano Coletta on the Ariston stage. The historical model of reference is the famous photograph of the ‘kiss in time square’.
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Sanremo 2022, kiss Amadeus and the director Coletta The double hello of The Representative of Lista
Music to dance on the stage of the Ariston with the tried and tested duo of The Representative of Lista singing “Ciao ciao”. Veronica Lucchesi and Dario Mangiaracina return to the Sanremo Festival for the second year in a row. L’
Still emotion on the stage of the Festival. Amadeus recalled Tito Stagno, the Rai journalist who talks about the moon landing. “We want to dedicate a memory to a man who literally took us to the moon”. Amadeus said this when recalling Tito Stagno on the Ariston stage during the Sanremo Festival. “Tito Stagno and one of the journalists who made the history of Rai left us a memory that we will always carry in our hearts”. Michele Bravi’s winter
Five years after the last time, when I finished fourth with “The diary of errors”, Michele Bravi returns to the Sanremo Festival. This time the former X-Factor winner brings “Winter of flowers”, a song in which all the sensitivity of him as an artist comes out in a sort of request for help in music. To co-sign the text Federica Abbate, who has already collaborated with Bravi on the composition of “The geography of darkness”, her third and last album whose title track was rejected for several years at the Festival. Actually Michele Bravi in ​​2018 sings at the Ariston during the duet evening of the Claudio Baglioni Festival, summoned by Annalisa. The Maneskins return to Sanremo
“Silent and good” resounds again in the Ariston theater one year after that triumph which then opened the doors of the world to the Roman band. They return after a period of incredible success: from the conquest of the Eurovision Song Contest to the opening of the Rolling Stones concert, from the dozens of gold and platinum records won around the world to the presence in the most important talk shows in America .
Amadeus fetches the Maneskins outside the theater and then delivers them to the audience. Massimo Ranieri sings “Letter from the sea”
34 years after the success of “Losing love” again on the stage of the Ariston Massimo Ranieri with a song that the same friend and rival, Gianni Morandi, defined as very strong. Also for Ranieri bookmakers and among the favorites.Mahmood and Blanco … and they are “Shivers”
Intense representation of the unusual duo composed of Mahmood and Blanco, two idols of the very young generations, but not only. They gave “Chills” and emotions to the Festival audience. The sympathy of Matteo Berrettini on the stage of the Ariston
Elegantissimo, with a black tuxedo and a conquering smile, the number 6 in the world for tennis and one of the super-guests of Sanremo. In the audience there is the whole family of the champion.
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Sanremo 2022, Prime evening. Matteo Berrettini “Thanks to Rai Italia” for introducing Ana Mena
And a song written by Rocco Hunt, entitled “Two hundred thousand hours”, the one presented at the Festival by Ana Mena, a Spanish singer. The occasion for Amadeus to remember the work of Rai Italia which exports the Sanremo Festival all over the world. Then the microphone passes to Rkomi with “Insuperabile”, a song that attracts the attention above all of the younger groups. Rai Radio2 Festival
Gino Castaldo and Ema Stokholma follow the live broadcast from the radio station located this year behind the stage. Irony, comments and lair sympathy are the ingredients of their presence. Maneskin and successful music
The stage and all of them for the second time. They come back to play their most famous music and set the theater on fire. Different atmosphere compared to the first song played, as well as the clothing. Coraline and poetry in music and the Ariston theater is an amplifier of emotions. Tears on Damiano’s face. To console the frontman of the Roman band who cannot hold back the emotion and the embrace of Amadeus and a new standing ovation from the audience of the Theater, where their triumphal march started a year ago.
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Sanremo 2022, the Maneskins And the turn of Dargen D’Amico
All dressed in pink, the invitation of Dargen D’Amico and “Dove si balla”, a cheerful and carefree song with a captivating rhythm. Almost an invitation to rediscover the moments of aggregation that have been missing for too long. “You were a bit treacherous, making me sing right after the Maneskin …”. And the nice reproach that Dargen D’Amico makes to the conductor and artistic director of Sanremo 2022, Amadeus, before his performance in the competition after the ovation of the audience to the winning band of the last Festival and triumphant at the Eurovision Song Contest. Memories of Ornella Muti
A formidable roundup of cinema myths, commented on by the memories of Ornella Muti. A roundup of big names, from Massimo Troisi to Alain Delon, from Silvester Stallone to Alberto Sordi and a special greeting also to Francesco Nuti. Finally the invitation: “Go to the cinema”. Songs on the sea
Connected by the cruise ship “Costa Toscana” moored off the port of Sanremo, two successful champions, Colapesce and Dimartino, give the Festival audience a sort of encore with ‘Musica Leggissima’, a successful song everywhere and boasting many versions in other languages. The duo was presented by Orietta Berti and Fabio Rovazzi, the “hosts” of the cruise ship. Orietta Berti’s look from Sanremo never ceases to amaze. After the shells on the breast that characterized her participation in the competition last year, in Sanremo 2022 the singer shows off the “roses and thorns” dress: a fuchsia fluffy dress on the sleeves (“these are the roses”) and with stipples on the shoulders (“and these are the thorns”).
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Sanremo 2022, Orietta Berti in connection with the Tuscan coast Claudio Gioe presents Giusy Ferreri
After the quick intervention of the actor Claudio Gioe engaged with the second series of the Makari television drama, broadcast on Rai1 starting from 7 February, Giusy Ferreri on stage and climbed with “Honey”. With her performance, the series of performances by the singers competing for the first evening of the Festival is completed. The Meduza arrive
Then we dance with the Meduza, an Italian house group, formed in 2019 and composed of the three producers Simone Giani, Luca De Gregorio and Mattia Vitale. A group that has had enormous success all over the world in the field of house music. All standing in the audience for a super dj set of “platinum” like those conquered by the Meduza who, according to Forbes, are the most listened to Italian artists in the world on Spotify in 2020, the 22nd DJs in the world in the Top100 alternative ranking according to the DJ site MAG, as well as being at number 2 in the 1001tracklist of the best producers in the world. The first time of “Don Massimo”, Raoul Bova, at the Festival
“He is the new parish priest of the most famous parsonage in Italy” says Amadeus introducing Raoul Bova who will take the place of Don Matteo in the Rai1 fiction after the release of Terence Hill. Then Nino Frassica enters the scene, in perfect uniform as a police marshal, to complete the work. Tribute to Franco Battiato
The 72nd edition of the Italian Song Festival bows to maestro Franco Battiato with a touching tribute to his art. An excerpt of “La cura” by the singer-songwriter, who passed away in May of last year, taken from the 2007 Festival was projected on the curtain. The orchestra, conducted by maestro Leonardo De Amicis, accompanied part of the video. The Citta di Sanremo award goes to Amadeus
And a Fiorello “with the face of the award winner” to deliver the ‘Citta di Sanremo’ award to Amadeus at the third festival. “You deserve it all, with all your heart,” he says to his friend. “I am speechless, I really care, it has been three years that I will never forget”, comments the artistic director. The showman does the panegyric of Amadeus, “has rejuvenated Rai, with a cast from Gianni Morandi to Aka 7even, from Highlander to pokemon. But I would like to say that everything that is old and beautiful. Rai is a little old, but and reassuring for young people: they know that when they get old Rai is always there waiting for you, because a fee is forever “. Fiorello rock
While waiting for the first provisional ranking of the singers in the competition, a nice curtain is held on the stage of the Ariston with Amadeus, Fiorello and the musicians of the orchestra. On the notes of “Back in black” by AC / DC, Fiorello “inserts” the calls of her grandmother when she tried to be heard by her grandchildren. A moment of great sympathy emerges.
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Sanremo 2022, Fiorello and Amadeus The partial ranking of the first evening
Mahmood & Blanco with “Broglie” lead the final ranking of the first evening of the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Festival. In the first evening only the press room voted.
Here is the ranking of the first evening: Mahmood & Blanco, The Representative of Lista, Dargen D’Amico, Gianni Morandi, Massimo Ranieri, Noemi, Michele Bravi, Rkomi, Achille Lauro, Giusy Ferreri, Yuman, Ana Mena.
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Sanremo 2022, the ranking of the first evening
