Have you ever wondered how much Amadeus earns? The question may be more than legitimate considering the next one will be leaving soon Sanremo Festival. A His career started very young as a DJ At the end of the 1970s he worked as a radio announcer and continued his work successfully in the following decade.
How much does Amadeus make?
Several years of training enabled him to acquire competence and skills, making him one of the highest-paid presenters on public television today. Finally, the conductor He has been a guarantee of excellent ratings for Rai for many years and therefore his salary correlates with the results achieved, even if these are numbers that we “mere mortals” cannot even imagine.
According to rumors, which have not been confirmed by the official channels of Viale Mazzini, Amadeus would have been in the bag for Sanremo 2022 350,000 euros for the five evenings of the festival. A small thing, of course, compared to the millions of euros that Michelle Hunziker was able to extort from Rai in 2007.
Amadeus
However, the fees for Rai hosts and guests have been significantly reduced, but that doesn’t mean Amadeus isn’t making hefty sums. In addition to the salary for Sanremo, he would actually be paid by public television 1 million euros for individual managementin addition to separate fees for lines”details” as the upcoming year or the show from the Verona Arena. In short, the host can expect to earn several million euros per year, not including collaborations or the implementation and presentation of events.
Amadeus with Gianni Morandi in Sanremo 2023
A nice change from the beginning, when he wanted to start a career in radio and took his first steps on the local stations of Verona, even waiting for hours Vittorio Salvettihistorical patron of the festival bar to give him a cassette for his audition.
It was the man himself who then introduced him to Claudio Cecchetto, who he says lives in Milan and is a voice actor. The entrepreneur then decided to put him to the test and gave him his debut on Radio DeeJay in 1986: the boy became one of the most popular voices among listeners and helped the station move from local to national.
Amadeus, the next Sanremo will be the last for the host
What begins next February will be the final edition of the festival hosted by Amadeus, which has taken over since 2020 and has catapulted ratings to unexpected heights, even setting records Share ratios with peak values of 60%. A result only exceeded that of Sanremo in 1999 Fabio Fazio.
However, the Veronese host was categorical, although many hoped that he would reconsider and return for 2025: for him the experience of the singing festival ends next year.
Furthermore, also being Artistic DirectorFor five years now, Amadeus has spent much of his summers reviewing 400 to 500 songs nominated for the festival: a fairly tedious and difficult task. In addition, her work intensified in the following months with the selection of co-presenters, the development of the line-up and the search for international guests.