Sanremo 2022, Fuortes: “Equestrian statue of Amadeus in place of Rai horse”

In the balance sheet of Sanremo 2022, “I don’t want to thank Amadeus, I would like to make him a paean, because he truly led both the artistic and management part in a masterly way”. Rai CEO Carlo Fuortes said this in the final press conference of the Festival. Fuortes also thanked “all of our great Rai company”. And he stressed that the festival’s record result was achieved with a proposal of “great quality” and “quality pays, because the audience is smarter than you sometimes think”. “There is a friend who suggests to me: we could replace the dying horse in front of the entrance to Viale Mazzini with an equestrian statue of Amadeus. Well, if Francesco Messina were still alive, we would have asked him for the new statue”, jokes Fuortes. to pay homage to the success of the third Amadeus festival, which ends with a historical audience record, with an average of five nights never so high since 1997.