Amadeus and the Controversy Surrounding the Sanremo Festival

Amadeus dances alone. From the left they pull him by the jacket. They try to throw him into the fray but they can’t. A bit like when, last February, he managed, acting with silent and effective confidentiality, to bring the President of the Republic to the Ariston for the first time. The institutional profile is that. And someone on the talent front, new peons of the left in the spasmodic search for the palm of martyrdom, is disappointed. Worse for them. Amadeus works in silence because he evidently continues to prefer the flowers of Sanremo to victims (without executioners). So let’s joke with the saints, but please leave Amadeus alone.

The matter has become so incandescent that this time even Fiorello, his lifelong friend, risked getting burned. So much so that the bowler hat on Amadeus’ hesitations, fired by the Sicilian anchorman on Friday morning in his Viva Rai2 !, on Saturday afternoon during TvTalk, from Fiore’s speakerphone, has definitively become just a comic joke by him. But the bang made him strong all the same. With the online editions of newspapers (obviously also big news) and television blogs that continued to speculate until yesterday afternoon.

Up to talking about an alleged irritation of the artistic director of Sanremo for (phantom) interference by the new Rai top management on the casting for the new proposals. Unfounded news, she was forced to clarify further, in this case the spokeswoman for Amadeus. The castings for young people do not seem to have even started yet. The guerrilla in Rai, however, as repeated several times, this time does not allow for half measures, arriving to sensationally involve even the so-called talents, or television stars. Friend or foe, inside or out.

Almost to the point of leaving a few cards too many uncovered. In fact, it begins to be evident, if not even clear to the eyes of many, that in addition to the opposition policy, there must be some other “holy league” to govern the whole mess. Artist manager? International majors? Powerful united in the goal of weakening the Melonian Rai, aiming right to the heart of the public company: the Sanremo Festival, in fact, on which Rai, whatever the governance color may have been, has always worked hard, focused a lot and with results which, especially in the last ten years, have never fallen short of expectations. With Sanremo which, thanks to Amadeus, has recently become attractive to everyone: from the very young to… Mattarella. Those who are against speak now, therefore, or keep silent forever.