In view of Sanremo, Rai is urgently looking for pairs of extras cohabitants, available for the five evenings live from the Ariston Theater of the 71st festival: a news that confirms the intention already anticipated by Amadeus in recent days to proceed with the Festival from 2 to 6 March, with a small audience and composed, in fact, of extras.
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It is essential to be living together
It is essential to have the cohabitant requirement – it would be written in a notice, reported by Ansa – which will allow you to occupy two chairs close together, spaced at least one meter from the others. A self-declaration of cohabitation will be required and a tampon will also be required (reimbursed by Rai) in the days preceding the first call. Amadeus, conductor and artistic director of the Festival, had already said that he had thought about the solution of appearing for allow safe performance of the Festival: Yes, let’s think of contractual figures who are an integral part of the show in compliance with the Dpcm. With the right distances we can reach 380 people in the stalls, while the gallery will obviously be closed – said al Courier service -. We have to offer the audience at home and the artists who are on stage a chance to have a real show. Whoever says that the public is useless does another job. I do not start to review health protocols and I rely on the judgment of technicians and experts. On how to do a show, on the other hand, I think I have the experience to know how to make such an important show.
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The controversy on the net
On the net, however, there is no shortage of voices openly opposed to the choice of extras. On Twitter there are those who wonder how to participate in the casting, but there are also those who rise up because the Festival is given the opportunity to proceed, while cinemas, theaters and concerts have stopped for months. Cos su Change.org game a petition which has exceeded 20 thousand signatures in the first 48 hours to say no to those appearing in place of the public in the name of fair treatment among all theaters, even if the Festival, in fact, would work as other television broadcasts and Ariston are already working it would follow the mechanics of a television studio.
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The petition on change.org
What changes between the extras and the public? Isn’t it always about people sitting in the stalls watching the show? Only the name differs, an excellent legal ploy that offends all Italians who cannot work in theaters and those who have not been able to enjoy art for months, says the online petition that defines the Festival under these conditions as unacceptable. Launched on change.org by Claudio Bellumore, young choir director and musician, the petition speaks on behalf of all workers in the Arts and Entertainment sector and all those who care about this cause, reads the text, and addresses the Government as well than to Rai and the Prefect of Imperia.
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January 25, 2021 (change January 25, 2021 | 15:01)
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