11 Feb – 2.03pm Amadeus confirms: you have to stop me
«Someone will remember that I said back in May that this would be the last festival, but no one believed it. I really feel like I have to stop.” Amadeus definitively closes the door to the hypothesis of a sixth artistic direction of the festival, mooted by CEO Roberto Sergio who will meet him and Fiorelllo in a couple of weeks. «I am grateful that there is the desire to make us continue, but I feel that we must stop and think about something else. This doesn’t mean that I’m going to be a hermit, but that I need to find other ideas, other challenges, other bets”, added Amadeus
11 Feb – 1.47pm Voting system, Rai reflects
On the voting method for next year “a reflection will be made and an attempt will be made to understand given the large turnout of the popular vote and the company will do so”. This was stated by Rai’s head of press office, Fabrizio Casinelli, during the final conference of the Sanremo festival. And Amadeus jokes: «Already the first problem for the next artistic director».
11 Feb – 1.41pm Amadeus is moved: “Thank you, it’s a Festival for everyone”
«Thank you, thank you, that’s enough otherwise I’ll be moved. I’m of a certain age.” Amadeus jokes with tears in his eyes in front of the applause of the press room of the Ariston Roof which gives him a standing ovation at the beginning of the final press conference of his fifth festival as host and artistic director. «It’s a festival for everyone. When you build something, when you think about it you can’t always share it with a group. I have always found trust in my idea in all people. When, in the first year, I went out with Emma outside the Ariston to take a walk to Piazza Colombo – says the host recalling his first festival, in which Emma was one of the co-hosts – I never found a person who told me no or cast doubts, I was supported 100%: it was a peak share.” And he adds with emotion: «First a technician, while arranging the wires, told me thank you, because you made us stay here and gave us a dream. Well, it’s no small feat.”
11 Feb – 12.52 Amadeus is moved
«Thank you, thank you, that’s enough otherwise I’ll be moved. I’m of a certain age.” Amadeus jokes with tears in his eyes in front of the applause of the press room of the Ariston Roof which gives him a standing ovation at the beginning of the final press conference of his fifth festival as host and artistic director.
11 Feb – 12.50 Angelina Mango: “My father would be proud”
«I am a very polite and kind person. My father would be proud of this. Maria De Filippi made me overcome so many fears. I heard from you and you are very happy”, said Angelina Mango at the press conference.
11 Feb – 12.45 Angelina: “I’m very sorry about Frankie hi-nrg’s tweet”
«I’m very sorry for this tweet, I didn’t read it. Did Frankie hi-nrg write this? I’m sorry because I respect him a lot.” This was stated by Angelina Mango who, during the final press conference of the festival, responded to Frankie hi-nrg who wrote on X that her victory occurred «at the hands of a handful of members of a media caste». «I realized my victory when I left the hotel this morning and there were people welcoming me. And I realize it every time I see the audience’s response when I’m on stage. For me that is a victory, it is not a prize.”
11 Feb – 12.35 Angelina Mango: “Sorry about the controversy”
“Having lived this experience in a positive way, I didn’t even particularly follow the controversies and this part of the competition, also because I didn’t experience it as such.” The winner of the festival Angelina Mango said it at the press conference, commenting on the controversies over the vote that accompanied her first place at the festival. «I haven’t thought so much about the ranking this week – added the daughter of Pino Mango and Laura Valente – Having said that, I am very happy that my colleagues have beautiful songs that we will listen to in the coming months». And on the victory, she observed: «I didn’t expect anything of what happened, I have to be honest. I didn’t believe it even when I was on the list of competitors, but I managed to experience everything calmly without being influenced too much by the pressures I might have had when I opened social media.” On the performance of ‘La Rondinè, dedicated to her father on the cover evening, the winner of the 74th festival said: «I tried to pay homage in a respectful way, I wanted a memory of me to come out. The love that came to me from the public was a great honor, which made me and my family proud.”
11 Feb – 12.28 The Israeli ambassador: “Ariston stage used to spread hatred”
«I consider it shameful that the stage of the Sanremo Festival was exploited to spread hatred and provocations in a superficial and irresponsible way. In the massacre of October 7, among the 1200 victims, there were over 360 young people murdered and raped during the Nova Music Festival. Another 40 of them were kidnapped and are still in the hands of terrorists”: the Israeli ambassador to Italy Alon Bar wrote this on X. “The Sanremo Festival could have expressed solidarity with them. It’s a shame this didn’t happen.” Last night Ghali declared on stage: «Stop the genocide»
11 Feb – 12.26 Geolier: “Disappointed? No, because I brought the Neapolitan to the Festival”
«I feel good, I had a good festival, I liked everything. Yesterday on stage it was me and Angelina, who are two kids, and this is important. I’m happy, it couldn’t have gone better.” Geolier, second place at the 74th Sanremo festival, said this, commenting on her placing in the race after Angelina Mango. “Disappointed? No, I brought the Neapolitan so I won already at the beginning of the festival because I achieved my goals.”
11 Feb – 12.12 CEO Sergio: «I am very satisfied»
“I am very satisfied”. Thus the CEO of Rai Roberto Sergio on the results of the fifth Sanremo festival by Amadeus. On a possible sixth artistic direction, currently excluded by the TV host, Sergio said, greeting the journalists present individually in the press room at the Ariston: «We’ll talk about it again in 15-20 days. Now let’s let the matter settle…”.
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