Sanremo 2023: the story of the third evening

The third evening of San Remo Festival, the middle one, opens under the banner of joy for the ratings gleaned in the first two evenings and the tenderness aroused by a humble and kind artist like Gianluca Grignani. After the pleasantries and the euphoria shared by Amadeus and Gianni Morandi, it is precisely when Grignani takes the stage that the atmosphere becomes warm and homely: at one point he raises the microphone to the sky and explains that he has a technical problem. He does it politely explaining that after almost thirty years of career he knows how the trade works adding, referring to what happened to Blanco, that he would not have been able to handle certain things when he was twenty but now he is, welcoming a sincere standing ovation from the audience who never stopped supporting him. A standing ovation repeated even in the presence of the Maneskinwho, two years after their triumph in Sanremo, return to the scene of the crime after their international success offering a medley of their most famous hits, the last of which together with world-famous guitarist Tom Morello.

In the middle of the roundup of the Bigs, each bearer of their own figure – the standing ovation of Marco Mengoni is worth notingan artist who, ten years after The essentialthe same year, 2013, in which at the cover night he proposed a version of Hello love hello by Luigi Tenco so powerful as to melt at the end in a liberating cry in front of an audience enraptured by his performance, he continues to surprise us not only for his charisma, but also for a voice that seems to come from the sixth heaven of Paradise – to take the her space is also the volleyball champion Paula Egonuarrived in Sanremo to bring a new message linked to the importance of inclusiveness and the condemnation of racism. “As a child I was obsessed with the whys. Then when I grew up I asked myself “why do I feel different, why do I experience it as if it were a fault?”. I realized that my diversity is my uniqueness. I am me. We are all the same beyond appearances», explains Egonu in his monologue, between a gag with Gianni Morandi – increasingly irresistible – because of his height and the return of Massimo Ranieri, escorted on this tour by Rocío Muñoz Morales, to promote his new song and his new fiction broadcast on Rai1 in the spring.

For the rest, the third evening of the Sanremo Festival – notoriously the softest of all five – proceeds without any particular leaps, offering, however, around 2 in the morning and with all due respect to Fiorello who, like us, complains about the absurd closing times of the kermesse, the new provisional ranking drawn up by Televoting and the Demoscopic Jury.

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