The second night of the televised
2017 Sanremo Music Festival attracted an average of 10.367
million viewers on Wednesday.
Presented by Carlo Conti and Maria De Filippi, the annual
music bonanza on the Ligurian coast continued to be watched by
46.6% of the total audience, a slight reduction from the same
night last year (49.91%).
However, this figure was still the second highest since 2005,
state broadcaster RAI1 chief Andrea Fabiano said at a press
conference on Thursday.
The most noteworthy moments of the second night included
American actor Keanu Reeves playing rock on a bass guitar,
British pop star Robbie Williams kissing an embarrassed De
Filippi on the mouth and an appearance by AS Roma captain and
former Italy striker Francesco Totti, who signed footballs and
kicked them into the public as the viewing figures peaked at
14.34 million.
In the 'Tutti Cantano Sanremo' section, a 'model employee'
from the Sicilian city of Catania was brought on stage who had
never taken a sick day and who criticized workers who try to
cheat their workplaces.
De Filippi added on the issue of unemployment that the youth
jobless rate in "Italy is at 40%. Many young people cannot
follow the example of this man".
She went on to mention a young man from the Friuli region who
committed suicide in January due to a lack of prospects for the
future.
At the press conference on Thursday, she joked about the kiss
and said that "I hope the kiss goes viral" and that now "every
evening Carlo Conti will have to kiss someone".
The first to be eliminated from competition on Wednesday,
Marianne Mirage, said that she "wasn't expecting it, but I'll go
forward with more energy than before".
At the festival on Friday there will be Kitonb, Luca
Zingaretti, Robin Schulz, Virginia Raffaele and the model Marica
Pellegrinelli, who is also Eros Ramazzotti's wife.
As part of 'Tutti Cantano Sanremo ' there will be Gaetano
Moscato, a grandfather who lost a leg in the Nice attack but
saved two of his grandchildren in doing so. One will be present
with him at the Ariston.
Agriculture Minster Maurizio Martina noted on Thursday that
Sanremo also "offers a unique and privileged showcase for
Italian flowers", a sector that "is worth over 2.5 billion euros
and gives jobs to 100,000 in 27,000 enterprises."
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