TORONTO – Corriere Canadese also actively participated in the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Festival, as a guest of “Sanremo with you”, the television program broadcast live on Rai Italia on the occasion of the first evening of the popular Italian music festival.  

From Studio 4 by Saxa Rubra, the presenter Maria Cuffaro, maestro Stefano Palatresi and Fabiana Giacomotti in fact connected with the correspondents in Sanremo – Maria Cristina Zoppa, Diego Dalla Palma and Saverio Raimondo – and with Italian journalists and viewers around the world: from San Paolo, Brazil, Diego Mezzogiorno; from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sergio Laccone and his family; from Toronto, Canada, il Corriere Canadese.

Around 6.30pm on Tuesday, after the performance of the last singer in the competition – Giusy Ferreri -, the Rai Italia studio therefore connected live with our editorial team where the journalist Marzio Pelù commented with his colleagues from Rai, the opening night.

“Here in Canada the Sanremo Festival is very popular and very popular – said Pelù, answering Cuffaro’s questions – not only by the Italian community, which has tens and tens of thousands of compatriots, but also by others, especially Latin American ones, in thanks to the popularity of artists such as Eros Ramazzotti and Laura Pasini in South America”.

For the Italians in particular, of course, the Festival “is a real institution, as well as any other major event involving the Belpaese” added Pelù, recalling the enthusiasm in the streets of Toronto on the occasion of the Azzurri’s victory at the European Championships Soccer last July.

Cuffaro then dealt with Pelù an analysis of the situation of Italian music in Canada and North America: the two agreed on the fact that Maneskin, the Italian band that has achieved global success in recent months, had the merit of spread the new Italian music all over the world. “In the homes of Italians in Canada, young people have always listened to the music of their grandparents or parents, linked above all to the old glories of Italian song such as Domenico Modugno and Toto Cutugno,” said Pelù. With the Maneskin, the “gap” that existed, in North America in particular, from the 70-80s, was therefore filled. As if to say, Italian music has returned to triumph in the world. As before and, perhaps, more than before.