VIDEO | The night before Venditti’s exams he turns 40: “It’s a miracle”

The celebrations at the Mic of an eternal song, the soundtrack of the maturity of all Italians, has managed to cross generations while continuing to excite

ROME – The night before the exams “is a miracle”. It has been for forty years, since that morning it came out “in one go” from the pen of Antonello Venditti . “In the end I found myself dazzled, shocked by what I had certainly written. But maybe not, who knows. Something that is inside me, that is above me”. The singer-songwriter talks about his masterpiece immediately before singing it, sitting at a piano arrived for the occasion in the Spadolini Room of the Roman College.

So full that the clerks of the Ministry of Culture are forced to bring more chairs. Filling it are the girls and boys who have come from the nearby Visconti High School to see him, a star who is certainly not of their generation. But, as we know, miracles go beyond space and time, and Night Before the Exams everyone knows it inside out. With them, Venditti officially opens the celebrations for these forty years since the release of ‘Cuore’, the album of masterpieces contains many, from It would take a friend to Piero and Cinzia strong>until, precisely, Notte prima degli exami, the piece which for the occasion becomes the title of a tour-event with which Venditti will take to the Italian stages. “With the super band we will interpret it in its full version and absolutely faithful to the original. I am very excited, because ‘Cuore’ is the most difficult album to sing, it has crazy tones. There will also be a special space for a new song , the ninth song on the album”.

THE STAGES OF THE TOUR

It starts on May 19th from the Verona Arena, then onJune 18, 19 and 21 in Rome, at the Baths of Caracalla. In July it will be the turn of Pistoia, Marostica, Parma, Cervere , Este, Cernobbio and Majano. August and September will also be full, when Venditti will arrive, among other destinations, in Cattolica, Forte dei Marmi, Paestum, Catania, Palermo, Macerata and Caserta. “Who would have ever told me that one day I would be close to Venditti at the Ministry of Culture to talk about these 40 years of Night before the exams. It’s a whirlwind of emotions”, says the undersecretary of Culture , Gianmarco Mazzi, who then makes an invitation to the school groups present: “June 18th will be the night before the exams. You can’t sleep that night, I advise you to go to Antonello’s concert who will give you a push for the exam”.

“MY DREAM? TO SEE MUSIC READ IN CONSTITUTION”

Before singing, Venditti expresses his dream: “To see pop music recognized in the Constitution”. He jokes with the boys and girls, makes roll call, calls them one by one. “This surname before name thing is terrible.” Then he gets up, he wants to sing. The night before the exams she is listened to in religious silence. “It’s the first time I’ve sung it by myself,” he says. And he gets excited. But one is not enough, many are asking for an encore. Here it is: We need a friend. This time the voice is choral, the phones all held high to film.

THE SHOW WITH MINISTER SANGIULIANO

With minister Sangiuliano, Venditti puts on a little show. “I grew up with his songs, he doesn’t know it, but I’m a fan of his. Just think, just to listen to his songs once in Naples I went to the Festa dell’Unità, which I wouldn’t have done. never done”, says Sangiuliano, who adds: “There is a great future ahead. Viva Antonello Venditti”. And he closes: “Long live Italy whole and free.”