In short, yesterday the new Sanremo Festival officially started after Amadeus. Carlo Conti (photo) introduced himself to Tg1 Mattina Estate and gave the first coordinates of the next edition to the excellent Giorgia Cardinaletti. Meanwhile, the regulations: «I tried to make some small changes. One thing I can tell you is that there will still be a division between the new proposals and the big ones. So the new proposals will not increase the number of big names and will not compete together with the big names but will have their own competition. There will be the winner of the new proposals and the big names will make their race, obviously there will be no eliminations, because they are now outdated.”
It is not a revolution, as some have polemically summarized. And it’s not even a sort of return to the past, according to the popular belief that Carlo Conti would only make nostalgic programs or in any case aimed at a medium-high age viewer. On the contrary. «I work on the excellent work done by Baglioni in his two years and on the five extraordinary years of Amadeus which made the Sanremo festival grow enormously», underlines Conti. The next Sanremo Festival is probably the right opportunity to disprove certain clichés (which social media largely fueled yesterday) and confirm that he is a professional with a 40-year career in Rai.
«The Festival will end earlier, therefore with fewer songs competing, then the Afterfestival will return». The songs are starting to arrive, but the actual listening, explains the new artistic director, will take place between the end of August and the beginning of September. And he admits: «I feel a lot of responsibility for choosing the songs». As for the co-hosts, Conti excludes the presence of his historical friends Giorgio Panariello and Leonardo Pieraccioni: «No, it would be trivial.
Maybe they’ll call me”, jokes Conti. Finally the Vasco Rossi dream. As anticipated by the Giornale, one of the guests of the next edition (indeed the greatest guest) could be Vasco Rossi: «Vasco think about it». And if Carlo Conti says so…
