John Travolta at Italy's Sanremo 2024: Highlights & Recap

No one had any doubts about her voice, but her skills as a co-host were a pleasant surprise. On the stage of the Ariston Theater, Giorgia was at ease and spontaneous (like when she talked about that time she missed the opportunity to perform in front of Michael Jackson for fear of flying on an airplane) and elegant, even when she mistook the 11th singer for the first. When she sang her hit songs, her vocal delivery was just flawless. Giorgia is the showwoman that Sanremo didn’t know it needed.

Popular Italian pianist Giovanni Allevi moved everyone from the stage of the Ariston Theater and lit up the second night of Sanremo 2024 with his smile. “I haven’t played in front of an audience for two years,” he said. “After the illness, I don’t know what I would give to play in front of 15 people like when I was starting out. Numbers don’t matter, and gratitude is an incredible gift. For everyone: doctors and nurses, for scientific research, for my family.” Then, despite two fractured vertebrae, he performed one of his most hopeful pieces, “Tomorrow.”

Announced as the international guest of the second night of Sanremo 2024, John Travolta was involved in a series of sketches in which – rather than speaking – he was just asked to replicate with Amadeus the dance moves that made him famous, from Saturday Night Fever to Pulp Fiction, ending with the “Chicken Dance” (where he refused to wear a beak-shaped hat). It is not clear whether he had been made aware of all this.

The Netflix series Mare Fuori, set in a juvenile prison in Naples, was a hit in Italy in 2023. Like last year, Amadeus invited the young actors of the cast to go onstage at the Ariston Theater to sing the main theme of the series. The interpretation was a bit weak, but the actors also used that moment to spread meaningful words about the importance of education against feminicide.