ULTIMO has dropped the first curtain of his new tour LAST STADI 2024 – THE TALE CONTINUES…: 405,000 tickets sold, a figure that brings the number of tickets sold 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 the undisputed protagonist of Italian live for the Roman singer-songwriter who at just 28 years old boasts 33 stages engraved in his palmarès.
ULTIMO took to the stage of his new show yesterday, presented to an enthusiastic crowd, under an incessant rain which, if possible, made the atmosphere of this great return even more magical. Two hours of uninterrupted music and emotions that made the stands of the Trieste stadium vibrate, with a setlist that added some new hits from the album to the historic successes of the Roman singer-songwriter SOMEWHERE ELSEreleased last May 17th under the independent label Ultimo Records and distributed by Believe.
Accompanying ULTIMO in this great live adventure that has just begun is an exceptional band: Joel Ainoo on keyboards, Manuel Boni on guitar, Jacopo Carlini on piano, Mylious Johnson on drums, Raffaele “Rufio” Littorio on guitar, Silvia Ottanà 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, I’ll tell about you And That thread that unites us. The central walkway (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, Shiny eyes, Those two lovers And Somewhere elsewhile a B stage with a third piano offered a long acoustic moment dedicated to some cult songs (among others Your details, Giusy, Little Star, Planets) 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 the interpretation of Sunrisea real painting, realistic and deliberately crude, which contrasts the delicate lyrics of the song with images of war, to recreate an almost suspended atmosphere that brings the public back to the reality that we see every day from afar: “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 returning to normality, to peace, to carefreeness, urging us to imagine a scenario different from what we know.
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), will be followed by a double at the Maradona in Naples (8 -9 June, the first sold out), an encore also in 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 June 28th at the San Filippo Stadium in Messina (sold out) and a concert, already sold out, on July 6th at the Euganeo Stadium in Padua, which will see the curtain fall on this umpteenth tour de force for the great people of ULTIMO .
A faithful, genuine, warm people, who can be seen reflected in the melodies and lyrics of what is in fact the most incisive pen of the new songwriting (68 Platinum Records, 21 Gold Records, more than 2,000,000 records sold and more than 2 billion streams collected on Spotify), and which has made the great Italian stadiums its home, its true dimension, its SOMEWHERE ELSE.
SOMEWHERE ELSE it is also Niccolò Moriconi’s latest recording project, released last May 17, the day on which the City of 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 (independent label Ultimo Records, distributed by Believe) was the best-selling in the FIMI charts in its first week and at #1 in both the album, CD, vinyl and cassette charts. Among the most streamed albums in the world on Spotify, it is at #9 in the Top Albums Debut Global and after Blame the fairy tales, Alone AndSunrisewas the fourth consecutive recording project to debut at number 1 on the sales charts.
LAST STADI 2024 – THE TALE CONTINUES… is produced by Vivo Concerti.
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LAST STADI 2024 – THE TALE CONTINUES…
2 June 2024 – Trieste @ Nereo Rocco Stadium (ZERO DATE)
8 June 2024 – Naples @ Diego Armando Maradona Stadium (SOLD OUT)
9 June 2024 – Naples @ Diego Armando Maradona Stadium
15 June 2024 – Turin @ Stadio Olimpico (SOLD OUT)
16 June 2024 – Turin @ Olympic Stadium
22 June 2024 – Rome @ Stadio Olimpico (SOLD OUT)
23 June 2024 – Rome @ Stadio Olimpico (SOLD OUT)
24 June 2024 – Rome @ Olympic Stadium
28 June 2024 – Messina @ San Filippo Stadium (SOLD OUT)
6 July 2024 – Padua @ Euganeo Stadium (SOLD OUT)
Press Release: Goiges Press Office
