Italy: RAI wants Amadeus back to Sanremo!

Italy’s public broadcaster RAI wants Amadeus back as artistic director of Sanremo.

Not even a month has passed since the end of this year’s Sanremo festival, and it seems that it is not easy for RAI to let go of the previous artistic director of the festival, who for quite some time had announced that 2024 would be the last year that he would be in this position.

According to Italian media, RAI has resumed negotiations with Amadeus in an attempt to convince him to renew his contract for two more years, i.e. until 2026.

TvBlog report that Rai have recently started negotiations with Amadeus, formally asking him to renew his contract as artistic director of Sanremo for two more years until 2026.

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However, later Amadeus himself live from the show Viva Rai 2 put an end to the aforementioned scenarios saying that there was indeed a meeting with the director of public television of Italy, however there was no proposal to continue in the future in the position of artistic director of Sanremo.

Amadeus just denied this report live on #VivaRai2. He stated that, even though it is true that he has met with the direction of Rai, there is no proposal to continue as artistic director of Festival di Sanremo in the future.pic.twitter.com/27pMNIm1Ew

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