Sanremo, ratings drop (60.1%). Controversy over John Travolta's cachet. Tomorrow tractors on stage
First Geolier ahead of Irama, Annalisa, Loredana Berté and Mahmood. Emotion for the return of Giovanni Allevi
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An average of 10 million 361 thousand viewers (60.1% share) watched the second evening of the Sanremo Festival yesterday (from 9.17pm to 1.33am). In 2023, the second evening of the festival gathered an average audience of 10 million 545 thousand viewers, equal to 62.3% share.
You make memes about his sloppy Neapolitan and branded content pizzas, he quietly takes the top step of the podium on the second night: Geolier is first ahead of Irama, Annalisa, Loredana Berté and Mahmood. This is the Top Five determined by the judgement of the televote and radio jury that comes after the performance of 15 of the 30 singers in the competition. A ranking that must be taken with a pinch because, according to the byzantine new festival regulations, it will be "mixed" with the classification of the first evening produced by the press room and that of the third evening, but in any case indicative of how the balance in the competition from now until Saturday may change.
Rai announces that on Friday evening Sanremo will give space to the farmers' protest, through a communiqué read by Amadeus. "In the impossibility of hosting some representatives on stage," reads the State TV note, "Amadeus will read a communiqué that will bring to the attention of the general public the problems and demands coming from the agricultural world.
What did we see in the almost five hours of broadcasting? The praise of resilience and resignation to the grotesque. Two opposing concepts that can coexist, because Sanremo is Sanremo: Giovanni Allevi's return speech after two years of illness and John Travolta doing The Qua Qua Dance. It oscillates between these two extremes on the second evening of the Amadeus quinquies festival: at 10 p.m. there is reflection and at 11 p.m. there is squawking. A second evening that continues to highlight writing problems.
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The Return of Giovanni Allevi
Moments of great emotion at the Ariston, with the audience completely on its feet for the return of Allevi, pianist and exponent of the new Italian classical music who is fighting against a myeloma. "Suddenly everything fell apart for me," he says in his monologue about the terrible experience of the disease. 'I haven't played the piano in front of an audience for almost two years. At my last concert at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the pain was so great that I couldn't stand up for the applause. I lost my job, I lost my hair, I lost my certainty, but not my hope'. It is precisely in those moments that you discover who you really are and maybe find the strength to go on. The meaning of his speech? 'It is liberating to be yourself'. So he finally sits down at the piano and performs a hopeful Tomorrow. Liberating.
