passionately passionate, Eros Ramazzotti, a seducer like those of yesteryear, returned to Barcelona to make the infinite heartbeat of the romantics feel, he who claims himself as one of the last of his kind. The attraction towards the Roman idol, 59 years old, with more than 30 years of career and already more than a dozen in Palau Sant Jordi, tonight with few free seats (about 12,200 people) does not expire. Romantic pop continues to fall in love with those who have always accompanied it in times when there are no inherited dogmas of love from yesteryear.
Ramazzotti, accompanied by a prodigious band of ten musicians, presented his latest album, ‘Latido infinito’ (in Italian ‘Battito infinito’), with which he began a concert that overflowed with classics from his discography. Initially full of positive messages and even with an ecological outlook, the Roman appeared as a celestial being, emerging shielded by a large screen that projected bucolic images between planets and radiant nature, some with a clear hint of Windows screensavers.
He combined Italian with Spanish (and to a lesser extent English), as he has done throughout his career, something that has allowed him to make Spain his second home. He opened ‘Battito infinito’ to continue with ‘Ultimi romantici’ before ‘Sono’ (‘I am’ in Spanish) will invoke Alejandro Sanz on the screens to sing as a duet (in a pre-recorded video) one of the most outstanding songs from his latest album. A piece full of melancholy and references to the inexorable passage of time, also for Ramazzoti, since, as he announced days ago and commented during the concert, grandfather.
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Eros was entertained in the first stop to read banners, such as that of a woman who claimed to be congratulated on her 50th anniversary. “You look 30,” he said in gentleman mode. The Roman, conservative in his movements, he knows that hardly anything will overcome the residue left by his classic songs through his unique nasal voice (and so many times imitated). And of those she nurtured, to the nostalgia of the public, her two hours of concert. Very soon ‘Dove c’è musica’ already indicated where the evening was going at the same time that it went down to the level of the public to feel the fans in the first rows playing and being played. ‘Un’ emozione per sempre’ (‘An emotion forever’) was the first collective explosion (“moments that will remain like this; engraved in the mind”), followed by others like ‘Stella gemella’, with Eros armed with a guitar and including a gospel introduction led by the drummer.
It was done at night with ‘Se bastasse una canzone’, from the Great Classics category, and asked for the light of the telephones so that his voice would be projected towards the stars. From the same category sounded ‘Solo con te’ or ‘Una storia importante’, to name just a few of Ramazzotti’s passionate hymns. Yes, he highlighted -in addition to games between sections, such as an incursion into ‘No woman no cry’, among others- the change of pace of ‘Fuoco nel fuoco’, a theme with which, encouraged by the public, he recreated a capella . The final communion, with the lights on to see the faces of those fans with whom he has been in a relationship for decades, came with ‘Più bella cosa’. Sant Jordi ended by shouting a deep “thank you for exstir”.