{"id":235465,"date":"2025-02-17T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=235465"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:41:41","slug":"san-remo-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/san-remo-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"San Remo 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Christos Zabounis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I watch my Italian dinner companion peeking at the live broadcast of the 75th San Remo Music Festival on her mobile phone. It is Friday night, Valentine\u2019s Day, and the halls of the famous Tuscan restaurant \u201cFrattoria\u201d are full of young couples gazing into each other\u2019s eyes. We even see some of them holding each other\u2019s hands. Our host, like his wife \u2013 the lady of the mobile phone \u2013 do not celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day, hence the invitation to a dinner \u2013 almost a tragedy. What Matteo did not take into account is Christina\u2019s interest \u2013 these are their names \u2013 in Music. She is not alone. Eleven million of her compatriots turned on their televisions and sixty-three million viewers were counted online, on Thursday alone. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, I suggested that we quickly finish the bistecca Fiorentina, drink a grappa real quick and run to the nearest television set. Entering the hotel room and connecting to the RAI1 frequency, I am lucky enough to \u201cfall\u201d into Roberto Begnini. Yes, the actor who won an Oscar for his performance in \u201cLa vita e\u2019 bella\u201d &#8211; \u201cLife is beautiful\u201d. Georgia Meloni, Donald Trump, Greenland, Elon Musk, the planet Mars, the march to Rome (ed.: The fascists), President Mattarella, the leftists who became rightists, all have their place in his twelve-minute monologue. The audience at the \u201cAriston\u201d theater applauds, while social media is divided over his political satire. It&#8217;s about 1 am when I close my eyes, having listened to wonderful duets and covers, that is, modern arrangements of older hits. Viva la musica!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zabounis I watch my Italian dinner companion peeking at the live broadcast of the 75th San Remo Music Festival on her mobile phone. It is Friday night, Valentine\u2019s Day, and the halls of the famous Tuscan restaurant \u201cFrattoria\u201d are full of young couples gazing into each other\u2019s eyes. We even see some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":235462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235467,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235465\/revisions\/235467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}