Claudio Baglioni takes back Piazza di Siena. That symbolic place of Rome will become the natural stage of Che Notte è Questa! for seven evenings, from 24 October to 1 November. It is the incipit of the GRANDTOUR LaVitaE'Adesso which will take the story of this extraordinary artist around Italy and which will end in just under a year, i.e. on 23 October 2027 at the Fori Imperiali with Che Notte è Questa! The Return which will mark Baglioni's exit from the live scene. In total Claudio Baglioni will be the protagonist of 50 concerts in 80 days.
Furthermore, 44 years ago, on 24 October 1982, Baglioni took over this monumental area in the heart of Rome, at Villa Borghese, for a concert that made history and which is still considered the first major Italian live music gathering today: that live show was called ALE'-OO' and attracted 250 thousand spectators. What will happen was told in the Giulio Cesare hall in the presence, as well as Claudio Baglioni, of the "host" of the Capitol, the mayor Roberto Gualtieri and of the Councilor Alessandro Onorato. The mayor of Rome underlines "this beautiful journey to Italy which starts from Rome and ends in Rome. Claudio will bring his poetry and his music which is a source of inspiration: we are proud of him, we love him". Councilor Onorato underlines "the great honor of hosting an artist who has given so much to Rome. Even for those who don't know him, he is a friend who has written indelible pages for several generations".
Claudio Baglioni starts from a dream in which he finds himself lost, then when Morfeo is a little driven out of half-sleep he begins to count all the places where he has played in Rome "from the stadiums to the Janiculum, from the Pincio to Centocelle, from the Quarticciolo to the Foro Italico, in the Vatican, on the trees, in prison, inside the Cinema Adriano, in the University but two were the real turning points and they were Villa Borghese in 1982 and then the first time at Fori Imperiali. But Piazza di Siena opened, together with the Banana Republic of Lucio Dalla and Francesco De Gregori, the custom of holding concerts in large spaces and we were looking for a final space: I was born in Rome, I am a second generation Roman, and that October 24th was a turning point for me, the first part of my professional life that began with Questo Piccolo Grande Amore ended. A few days later I cut my hair to symbolize the artistic and existential transition.
Claudio Baglioni takes a step back when he talks about the pneumonia that forced him to change his tour and could change the course of a career that "has always been better than working, which I'm not complaining about, we've been playing with music, colors and lights for 60 years, I've played for sixty years. It will be a non-celebratory concert, it will be possible to do everything except leave early, in case you let us know that we will turn our backs so as not to see you". At Villa Borghese there is a special atmosphere, compared to 1982 the repertoire has expanded a lot "and in any case I don't go and look at anything from then, I only focused on the cover of that album, not the images because I have a sense of extraneousness, I no longer know who that guy on stage with the long hair and the white shirt is. The setlist will always be the same because it is a constructed show, I want to do things well, I no longer have naivety, I would be lying if I said that my legs were shaking and the voice but what I know is that I want to do well."
Many artists are imperfect and this is why, according to Claudio Baglioni, they are looking for a space in the world: "Being a little boy from the suburbs we were even more afraid of going unnoticed. I went to the oratory and at 14 I told my mother that perhaps I had heard a voice and she, although a pious woman, asked me if I was really sure. I didn't even follow my father who took me to watch boxing. I remember that at 13 I took part in a competition in my hometown square. neighborhood, my father chose a song by Paul Anka for me which I rehearsed for a week in front of the mirror while swaying my hips and my uncle, who didn't understand those preparatory gestures of mine, told my mother that he could see that I was moving... my hip. One of the last things he would like to do for this very reason is to go back to singing in Centocelle". What is certain is that he never stops getting emotional on stage: "I always get excited, I make sure that every evening is not just one evening but this evening for my entire audience."
