Carla Bruni sang this Friday on the mythical stage of L’Ariston, as part of the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Festival (Italy). The evening was dedicated to duos. The twenty-eight singers competing in this great Italian song contest had each invited the artist of their choice to perform a classic from the transalpine repertoire. The Colapesce Dimartino duo invited the Franco-Italian to perform a new version ofAzzurrohit by Adriano Celentano.
“We liked the idea of resonating with Paolo Conte [qui a composé d’Azzuro] in the hall and we would have liked to do it with one of the inmates[ofthechoirofSanVittoriobutthatrequiredtoomanyrequestsforauthorization”thetwoartiststold[duchœurdeSanVittoriomaiscelaexigeaittropdedemandesd’autorisation »ontdéclarélesdeuxartistesàThe Gazzetta dello Sport. “We decided to go get Carla, we contacted her through our record company. She immediately let us know that she was listening to our songs, she was happy to come, they explained. It is full of irony and self-mockery. Why she ? The first part of the arrangement calls for an ethereal voice and his is suave and elegant, practically perfect. »
If Carla Bruni has never participated as a candidate in the Sanremo festival, she came in 2003promote his first album there by singing Someone told me.
Missed appointment
She had also been invited during the 2010 edition but had not finally made the trip. It was rumored that she would not have liked one of the songs in the running that explicitly quoted her. In the chorus of meno male, Simone Cristicchi sang: “Fortunately there is Carla Bruni, we are made like that, sarko-non, sarko-si / What a beauty Carla Bruni / If we talk about you, the problems do not exist. The artist thus intended to criticize the way in which the media and her fellow citizens focused on her (“What does she say Carla Bruni? How does Carla Bruni dress? What does Carla Bruni eat? He went out, the Carla Bruni’s new record?”) rather than on subjects involving the country’s future.
Carla Bruni had denied any tension about this song and had explained that only a question of availability and agenda had prevented his coming. The missed appointment was therefore repaired on Friday.
The Sanremo Festival is a first-rate media showcase. The first three evenings of the event, which began on Tuesday, were watched on average by 10.2 million people on Rai Uno between 9 p.m. and 1:30 a.m., an average audience share of around 60%. The final will take place this Saturday evening.