The Sanremo 70+1 festival would be cancelled altogether if the Covid-19 pandemia is still around in March, there's no Plan B, Amadeus the artistic director and host of the festival next year told to the media today. They have no intention of doing a festival without audience and the live orchestra in Teatro Ariston when the festival is due to happen from March 2 to 6, 2021, they will do it only if it can happen in a normal, the usual way. If not, they rather cancel it altogether. The fact is should it happen now the restrictions in place wouldn't let it take place.
However, the production team tries to stay positive and hope that Sanremo 2021 will indeed be The First Big Event Post-Covid-19. The work choosing the artists and songs starts officially next week but according Amadeus he has already received a few hopeful proposals. Before that in October there will be five nights of Ama Sanremo to find out the six of the eight newcomers for the festivals out of about 500 proposals. The final for that takes place on December 17, 2020 when also all the Big artists will be revealed and they will be even present in Teatro del Casinò di Sanremo. If everything goes as planned. Let's keep the fingers crossed!
Update 7.9.2020: It seems most medias have reported only a part of the story as Rai has confirmed the story isn't exactly so, but in worst case the festival would be postponed to a happier times ahead, should (already later than usual) dates now confirmed still conflict with the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 situation. One can only wonder when that would be.....
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