Lto 73rd edition of the Italian Song Festival it ended two months ago, but the curiosity seems not to have died down yet e Rai 1 offers an unreleased special. Sanremo 2023 – Between stage and realitybroadcast tonight at 21.45rewinds the tape of the five evenings and proposes them again, condensed, from a new point of view.
Sanremo 2023 – Between stage and realitythe special with Gianni Morandi
The docufilm – written by Stefano Corsi and Leonardo Lo Frano, who also signs the direction – tells the behind the scenes of the Festival. A journey into the most crowded backstage of Italian television, where they alternate singers, actors, conductors, international guests and anyone who takes part in the gigantic production machine of Sanremo.
Wearing the role of Virgil is Gianni Morandi. “We have to bear witness to everything that happens in Sanremo,” he says in the short clip posted on Instagram. The singer as well co-host of Sanremo 2023 accompanies viewers during the key moments of the event. First of all, that of rehearsals of the Bigs competing together with the orchestra, followed by the emotions felt a moment before going on stage at the Ariston Theater. Moments of adrenaline, anxiety, fear: a mix of moods which, once you go down the stairs, transform into energy right from the first note.
Gianni Morandi on the third evening of the Sanremo Festival 2023. (Getty Images)
At that point, the show begins and the audience watches set up of a long and complex work that lasts several months. The result of teamwork carried out by hundreds of people involved, from workers to managers, from those who work behind the scenes to those who put their face into it.
Furthermore, Sanremo 2023 – Between stage and reality it doesn’t just tell the atmosphere of the backstage – as it happens in Behind Festivalswhich shows behind the scenes from the point of view of the singers only – but goes one step further. Enter the homes of the Italians who follow the Festival from their sofas, to give voice to the opinions and impressions of the real publicespecially the smaller one.
The best highlights of the 73rd edition of the Festival
Sanremo 2023, the fourth signed by the conductor and artistic director Amadeus, will be remembered as the edition of records. After the success of the first three years, the bar got higher and higherbut instead of settling at the goals achieved, the program has grown even more both in terms of ratings and in terms of approval.
Amadeus has succeeded in an enterprise that on paper seemed impossible to achieve: to involve the younger public. In addition, he created a show stuffed with different ingredients, which all returned a colorful and varied image of the country. Not without controversy.
Indeed, they are different the key moments that have entered the history of the Festivàl. The first evening was Blanco’s turn. During the presentation of his new single, The island of roseshears no audio and in anger destroys the roses lying on the stage. An unfortunate show, which caused discussion at least until the next morning, when the singer apologized publicly on Instagram.
The kiss between Rosa Chemical and Fedez
Then they exploded the rumors about an alleged quarrel between Anna Oxa and Madame, promptly denied, but which has enlivened social media. After that, the focus shifted to the manifesto-dresses by Chiara Ferragni, in particular the first one, the black one with the inscription «Pensati libera» on the white stole, which immediately became a meme. Or links with from Glass’s Long live Rai 2!… Long live Sanremo with a Fiorello punctually sleepy, exhausted from the long broadcast of his friend Amadeus.
Sanremo, 73rd Italian Song Festival, Final Evening. The singers. Rosa Chemical, Fedez and the kiss
Still, the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the tribute to Lucio Dalla with a very excited Gianni Morandi and the show set up by Morandi, Al Bano and Massimo Ranieri in the second evening. In the end, the kiss between the singer Monghidoro and his wife Anna during the final.
To these must be added the case that most caused discussion on television and on social media: The kiss between Rosa Chemical and Fedez during the final. The moment of spectacle has turned into a political case, with a lot of exposure to the Imperia prosecutor’s office by the Pro Vita & Famiglia association. Exhibit archived at the end of February. For the series, as long as we talk about it. After all, they are just songs. Or maybe not.
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