This evening, Saturday 29 August, in prime time on Rai 1, Sanremo returns to center stage with La Notte dei Fiori, a show-event dedicated to the musical history of Liguria, the school of Genoese singer-songwriters and the heritage of the Sanremo Festival.
The evening will be hosted by Nicola Savino and Elenoire Casalegno, called to guide the audience through a story that intertwines music, archive images, testimonies and memory. The stage will be that of the Pian di Nave seafront, where the sea and the city of flowers will be the backdrop to an evening built around Italian song.
The heart of the show will be the great Ligurian authorial tradition. Fabrizio De André, Gino Paoli, Luigi Tenco, Umberto Bindi, Bruno Lauzi and Ivano Fossati will be at the center of a tribute that not only aims at nostalgia, but at the persistence of their songs in the Italian musical imagination.
THE GUESTS
Reinterpreting the repertoire will be a transversal cast, capable of bringing different generations and sensibilities into dialogue: Fabio Concato, Angelica Bove, Fabrizio Moro, Tosca, Nicolò Filippucci, Anna Tatangelo, Marco Masini, Roshelle, Maria Antonietta, Colombre, Sabrina Salerno and Cristina D’Avena.
Alongside the songs of the Genoese school, La Notte dei Fiori will also retrace some of the songs that have marked the history of the Sanremo Festival, creating a direct link between the songwriting tradition and the event that has identified the city on the Italian music scene for over seventy years.
De André, Paoli, Tenco, Bindi, Lauzi and Fossati will also be protagonists through archive materials and fragments of their interviews. An indirect but particularly significant presence, entrusted to their own words and images that convey the cultural climate from which some of the most important pages of Italian songwriting were born.
The evening will also broaden the story to the more ironic dimension of Liguria. Federico Basso and Antonio Ornano will bring moments of comedy and observations on the region to the stage, introducing a lighter component into a show built mainly on musical memory.
The Night of Flowers thus presents itself as a tribute to Sanremo which looks to its heritage without transforming it into a simple celebratory exercise. The city of flowers becomes the meeting point between the history of the Festival, the songwriting and a new generation of performers called to compete with a repertoire that continues to modify its meaning over time.
ON AIR
The appointment is for this evening, Saturday 29 August, in prime time on Rai 1, directly from the Pian di Nave seafront in Sanremo.
