Perhaps it is his ability to be “on the side of the last to feel first” or that rare gift of being able to transpose love in all its facets from poetry to music that Ultimo, the Roman singer born in 1996, fills stadiums like few faces of Italian music still manage to do. Even the penultimate stop of the tour at the “Franco Scoglio”, the only one in Sicily, is now destined to make history in concerts on the shores of the Strait and in the career of Niccolò Morriconi, one of the now consolidated faces of the Italian songwriting scene. In a mix of rock, pop and gospel Ultimo gave a magical night to an audience of 40 thousand people from all over the island, where the tour will return in 2025, again at the Messina Stadium, on July 18.
With a band made up of four strings, three horns, two electric guitars, two pianos, a gospel choir and an American drummer, Ultimo burst onto the stage with The masterpieces, I’m Crazy About You and When It Rains Outside immediately involving his fans in a concert, produced by Vivo Concerti and promoted by Giuseppe Rapisarda Management, whose setlist was unique, as unique is the story of each stage in which Morriconi always wants to give new emotions with songs and arrangements whose order of performance changes from time to time. He presents his saxophonist, Andrea Innesto, with The dance of uncertainties which almost becomes a duo, voice and instrument, before focusing on the audience’s empathy and emotion with You feel good e All of this is you.
We dance with Hypochondria where Ultimo begins his dialogue with the spectators made up of choirs and artistic improvisations through which the singer leaves room for the voice of his fans who move him and “embrace” him singing with him song after song. It shouldn’t be had Never fearNiccolò tells through the song of the same name, because even if we often feel Swallows on a leash It is by believing in yourself that you can find true redemption. His lyrics tell this, aiming straight at the heart of those who listen to him with the aim of motivating, stimulating them to move forward and to love, always.
“That thread that unites” Ultimo at Franco Scoglio: voices, faces and emotions in Messina
Multifaceted during the two hours of the live show during which he took to a very large and very high stage, Ultimo, who, during the concert, showed that he knew how to duet with all the instrumentalists of his band. But it is on the piano that he shows his profound knowledge of music with I’ll tell about you which brings the stadium back to a paradoxical situation of silence and respect for the sweet notes and words that gather in kisses, hugs and tears all the lovers, parents and children present at the show.
There is also a dedication to his girlfriend with That thread that unites us played while images of him and the woman with whom he will soon have a child scroll across the screen. While I dedicate to you the silence, Clouds in my head, The Last Poem and Loved Always complete the picture of a hymn to love that has never been missing in Morriconi’s human and musical journey, destined to take over from Antonello Venditti, as many have wanted to note.
The scenography changes and Ultimo approaches the spectators together with his entire band Shiny Eyes, Snow in the Sun, Those Two Lovers and Elsewhere that the singer plays right in the center of the lawn from which he moves to reach a second position, this time in front of the grandstand, thus managing to be seen by everyone. The second stage, on which a second piano has been set up, leaves it suspended between earth and sky where Ultimo presents a medley Giusy, Good Morning Life, The Most Fragile Star in the Universe e Return to you.
Con Little Star A marriage proposal also slips out among the spectators, accompanied by the singer’s good wishes, who, after Come into my heart remember that Planets consecrated him to fame, leading him, in the space of a handful of years, to collect awards and gold and platinum records album after album. He closes a show of over two hours with Alba, The usual fears e The memory station.
Not without giving, once again, to his fans Hanging dreams, with which he bids farewell to Sicily to which “I hope to give the same emotions that this land gives me every year”, he says. And the fireworks from the stage are the last step of an evening that saved the hearts of the “last”, for one evening, under the Messina sky, who became the “first” in the heart of Niccolò, waiting for 2025.
