Co-hosts Antonella Clerici and Gerry Scotti are missing from the press conference preceding the first evening of the Sanremo Festival , but Alessandro Cattelan, host of the Dopofestival and the final, makes his debut.

"We're starting tonight. The atmosphere is extraordinary," Conti says. "We have Noa and Mira Awad as guests, who will perform the song Imagine, and then Jovanotti who will offer an overwhelming moment."

About Dopofestival «the hope is to offer a moment of decompression after the evening, of messing around and joking. There is a good team. We did some rehearsals. There is what is needed to do something fun. My intention is to make an Dopo Festival that recalls in its atmosphere those of Elio, Fiorello, Nicola Savino with Gialappi, that way of desecrating the liturgy that has remained in the memory of many».

Regular guests will be Selvaggia Lucarelli and Anna Dello Russo, "who will give grades on the look, will judge how the singers should be dressed. With Selvaggia we will comment on everything that happens on stage ." On the clash between Fedez and Selvaggia Lucarelli "we will talk about everything, not just that. And in any case if gossip bothers us, maybe it's better to stop following it."

A new guest has been announced for tomorrow evening, she will be Carolina Kostner for Milano-Cortina. Damiano David, the protagonists of the fiction on Peppino Di Capri Champagne story, the cast of Follemente, the cast of Belcanto have been confirmed. On Thursday instead there will be Edoardo Bennato, who will sing “Sono solo canzonette”, also the title of the documentary film that will see him as the protagonist on Rai.

A touching moment for Carlo Conti who remembered his mother who passed away in 2002: «She raised me alone, my father died when I was 18 months old. She was a very strong woman, maybe that's why I have so much respect for women. She taught me respect and honesty».

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