We know that Renato Zero’s live performances are spectacular, punctuated by impressive visual moments with his play of light and obviously his clothes which have always distinguished him, being his trademark. This time, however, the concert should have a more sober tone, even the dance troupe will not be there. However, as he said and reiterated, there will be no shortage of surprises. For his return to Naples, a city that since the beginning of the century Renato Fiacchini feels a bit like his own also because the beginnings have also been the sequence of aces to be gradually lowered onto the table during the approximately three hours there is a lot of Naples with six of its singers and artists distributed over the two evenings with the translation of Il carrozzone into Neapolitan made with Beppe Barra who will be among tomorrow’s guests. There are many rumors about the guests and some spoilers have come out about the Neapolitan artists he wanted with him for this unique event: Lina Sastri, Enzo Gragnaniello, Sal Da Vinci protagonists of this first evening with whom he will reserve a surprise for the city.
Aesthetics, stage games and his irony are the essence of Renato zero of what he is and represents.
He is among the artists who with his music celebrates the religiosity of life in its most secular and free concept and how much poetry there is in it with its ugliness and beauty which is unique in its diversity because human beings are equally unique. He has been reiterating it for about 50 years in every note of his, in every word of his songs even in the most transgressive ones.
So for the first time he arrives at Piazza del Plebiscito, he does it on the day of the music festival, the international event that is repeated in many countries around the world.
Since it was announced that he would land in Naples to dominate the square with Autoritratto it immediately sold out so much so that the date for tomorrow has doubled.
Over the weeks the anticipation has grown to find out what extraordinary King Renato will have invented, for this exceptional, perhaps unrepeatable moment. The countdown has begun. His smirks begin the countdown. She finally appears and does so with glances in perfect Zero style. Suddenly he enchants with his beautiful smile that conquers generations and generations of fans, even those who see him for the first time in a live concert.
From the enormous stage he dominates unchallenged to launch his magic which is his art with Cercami, Spiagge.
Everyone is under his spell.
Every moment of this show, which Zero also wrote and directed, is an act of love for Naples and the Neapolitans with whom he feels a solid elective affinity, not only as a musician because, as he underlines several times, it is Neapolitan music that ‘he trained, but above all as a man.
“Naples, thank you for existing!” she says with her unmistakable voice to the audience.
Over three hours of music there is an exchange of affection and gratitude between Renato and his audience, but also between Renato and the city.
A love that reaches its peak right towards the end with that surprise that Zero prepared with Beppe Barra: the Neapolitan version of Il Carozzone. A wave of grace pervades the square. For this homage which sublimates one of his symbolic songs, he does not want to be at the center of that scene which he knows very well how to master, but chooses to entrust it to some true Neapolitans: Lina Sastri, Sal Da Vinci and Enzo Gragnaniello.
He entrusts it to their voices, before returning on tiptoe in the final verses of one of his masterpieces.
