AGI – The new tour “Ultimo stadium 2024 – the fairy tale continues” has started which features 405,000 tickets sold, brings the number of tickets issued in his career to 1,650,000, after the zero date at the Nereo Rocco Stadium in Trieste. Thus began the fourth consecutive summer as a protagonist of Italian live for the Roman singer-songwriter who at just 28 years old boasts 33 stadiums in his palmarès. Ultimo took to the stage of his new show on June 2nd, presented to an enthusiastic crowd, under an incessant rain which made the atmosphere of this great return even more magical, if possible. Two hours of uninterrupted music and emotions that made the stands of the Trieste stadium vibrate, with a setlist that added to the historic successes of the Roman singer-songwriter some new hits taken from the album Altrove, released last May 17th under the independent label Ultimo Records and distributed from Believe.
To accompany Ultimo in this great live adventure that has just begun, one exceptional band: Joel Ainoo on keyboards, Manuel Boni on guitar, Jacopo Carlini on piano, Mylious Johnson on drums, Raffaele “Rufio” Littorio on guitar, Silvia Ottana on bass, Andrea Innesto on sax, Pierluigi Potalivo on guitar and backing vocals, Chiara Di Benedetto on cello, Tommaso Belli and Alessia Giuliani on violin, Marco Venturi on viola, Davide Albrici on trombone, Alessandro Bottacchiari on trumpet, and Alice Tombola on backing vocals. The musical direction is entrusted to Andrea Rigonat.
The dimensions that make up this colossal live show are different: in addition to the imposing stage (60 x 22 metres), 900m2 of LED walls dominating the rear for a height of 18m, a massive lighting system (more than 600 lighting fixtures), and the visuals developed by Galattico acted as a magical prop, ferrying the spectators into the world of the singer-songwriter’s lyrics, there was also a double setup in mid-air for some members of the band and a piano in the center which hosted a mini set of two evocative songs, Racconterò di te and Quel thread that unites us. The central catwalk (50 m) was instead the protagonist of a piano and guitar set with a more urban aesthetic, which served as the setting for the moment dedicated to the new songs, Occhi lucidi, Quei due amore and Altrove, while a B stage with a third piano gave a long acoustic moment dedicated to some cult songs (among others I Turio Particulars, Giusy, Piccola Stella, Pianeti) performed in their most original form, supported by an ocean of voices, a chorus of the over twenty thousand who crowded the Nereo Rocco for this zero date.
Another particularly touching moment is Alba’s interpretation, a real painting, realistic and deliberately raw, which contrasts the delicate lyrics of the song with war imagesto recreate an almost suspended atmosphere that brings the public back to the reality that we see every day from afar: “can you imagine if all this were reality”, which at the end rewinds the tape on the horrors and brings back the dreamlike vision of a world that returns to normality, peace, light-heartedness, encouraging us to imagine a scenario different from what we know.
At live number zero in Trieste, which served as the testing and grounding of the tour (thanks to the use of 150 local workers employed for set-up and dismantling and 500 operators for safety and control), a double will follow at Maradona of Naples (8-9 June, the first sold out), an encore also at Turin (15-16 June, the first sold out) and, for the second year in a row, a magical hat-trick at the Olimpico in Rome (22-23-24 June, the first two sold out). Single stop in Sicily on 28 June at the San Filippo Stadium in Messina (sold out) and a concert, already sold out, on 6 July at the Euganeo Stadium in Padua, which will see the curtain fall on this umpteenth tour de force for the great people of Ultimo .
The Parchetto Ultimo in Rome
“Altrove” is Niccolò Moriconi’s latest recording project, released last May 17th, the day on which Rome thanked him through a plaque inaugurated in the presence of the Mayor Roberto Gualtieri and the Councilor for Culture Miguel Angel Gotor in an area of San Basilio, Municipality IV, which is now the “Ultimo Park”. The album was the best-selling in the FIMI charts in its first week. Among the most streamed albums in the world on Spotify, it is in 9th place in the Top Albums Debut Global and after Colpa delle favole, Solo and Alba, it was the fourth consecutive recording project to debut at number 1 in the sales charts.
