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Domenico Alcamo
The boatmen of the Italian song arrive. As San Remo is San Remo, and that is why Mother Rai mobilizes so that “the show must go on”, the show goes on even if Italy, for months, has almost stopped. Dagospia, at Christmas, gave account of an indiscretion around a stage that public TV would be considering to allow the Festival of the city of flowers to take place reconciling the spectacle and the presence of the public. According to this plan, which according to company sources is one of those being analyzed, the artistic and public staff must be placed on a ship from Costa Cruceros, Costa Smeralda, anchored in the port of the city, with anti-Covid pads and monitoring constant. From there every evening (the festival is scheduled for March 2-6) it is brought ashore on board some specials and boarded by special buses and transferred directly to the Ariston. An operation that should affect about 400 people every night. As for record companies and journalists, a different location would be in store for them than the Ariston, the Palafiori or the Casino.
The idea for all this would come from Antonio Marano, president of Publicidad Rai. A design, therefore, that seems also very appreciated by the municipal administration of Sanremo, considering the benefit obtained from the port. Therefore, a project that in some aspects recalls the famous Orlando “bubble” with which the NBA championship was played in the United States. Taking into account that this year will surely be anomalous, with no possibility for the artists to “live” Sanremo as usual, although some events such as the red carpet and the Dopofestival could be confirmed.
Certainly, therefore, even the song competition will end up in the category of certain rituals altered by the wave of Covid. All of this, however, comes at a particularly difficult time for the country. If this project is adopted, it would be a way of acting with security, which, however, was not allowed in the live show, to which the doors were closed for months. Not to mention, then, when changing sectors, restaurants first pushed large investments of money to adopt safety and distance rules and then faced the only possibility of closing at night.
All this, therefore, is prepared to involve political controversy. So Michele Anzaldi, deputy of Italia Viva and secretary of the Supervisory Commission, wrote a long post on Facebook about it. “Although all theaters and museums have been closed for months, while concerts have been banned for some time and the entire cultural industry is on its knees, the rich Rai, the only Italian company that does not have budget problems because it is maintained by Canon Money of Italians, I would like to have a preferential lane for San Remo, circumventing the law with a dubious operation that would bring hundreds of people to the Ariston as a public. The confirmation given to the press that we are considering such a solution is very serious, it is urgent that clarifications arrive in the Supervisory Commission. President Barachini expects transparency from those responsible for the public function. “And then he adds:” The Scientific Technical Committee and the Ministry of Health will decide. Who guarantees that hundreds of people are transferred from hotels or boats every day does not endanger the health of Italians? Who guarantees that the Festival will not become a maximum accumulation of contagion? you? ». There is certainly a great risk of the “two weights and two measures” principle, which would be inconceivable to public opinion.
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