Last episode of the season for Alessandro Cattelan. His program Stasera C’è Cattelan on Rai 2 caused a lot of conversation. Thanks to the host of Elly Schlein, newly elected secretary of the Pd. “There was no need to convince her to tell the truth. We called her and she accepted the invitation. She is a gamer, it’s pop, it wants to join. So much so that he agreed to play Imagine while I lay on the piano. For me it was a cool moment that I will look back on with joy and nostalgia for many years to come.”
However, Cattelan would make no distinctions. The conductor would also have invited the prime minister Giorgia Meloni. “Moreover – he adds – she was also available but then couldn’t come due to various commitments. I had contacted her at EPCC a few years ago because we wanted to repeat the Friends theme song with the faces of politics. The idea was to have her playing in the fountain: she said yes, but we never managed to convince the others to come to six politicians”.
Cattelan’s goal is precisely to create the so-called “pop politics”. And the idea of having the dem leader play the piano is emblematic of that: “A kind of program like the one I’m doing has to strive for those things. Just like Fiore makes these sketches. Influential characters have that they interfere it is every conductor’s dream. Then we don’t deal with politics in the narrower sense: we touch on issues, we think about the present, but we don’t engage in dialogue with the opponent.