Cinemas, theaters, concerts, museums. After the false start on March 27, we will try again from April 26. And this time with larger numbers, up to 500 people indoors, a thousand outdoors. With the possibility for the regions to authorize large concerts or cultural events, as long as they are safe, being able to count on the same numbers that may be allowed for sport. It is evening and Prime Minister Draghi has already spoken for a while when the news arrives that the Scientific Technical Committee has fully accepted the requests made two days ago by the Minister of Culture Franceschini. With the green light to double the capacity and also a hint of the possibility, in the event that the epidemiological conditions improve, to overcome these new stakes by going beyond the 50 percent just obtained.
YES TO FOOTBALL AND A THOUSAND PEOPLE AT THE STADIUM
Satisfied, the Pd minister sends a signal to the demonstrators who will gather tomorrow in Piazza del Popolo in Rome called to rally by the Bauli movement. “I thank all those who will be in the square, the messages that come from the world of show business workers are very useful,” he stresses from the stage of a kermesse on culture organized just today by the Democrats. So we try again, aware that it is a beginning, a signal in the hope of ever better times.
A warm thanks comes from the music industries with the CEO of Fimi Enzo Mazza who speaks of an “important result, above all because it also provides for the overcoming of standard limits on the basis of specific situations and protocols”. And the president of Assomusica Vincenzo Spera – very critical a few days ago – applauds today: «We are confident that this first step will see a progressive expansion towards more suitable forms for the places where the shows will be held», he writes. Although he underlines the need for a progressive path that will soon lead to work “in safety but also with greater economic sustainability”. For cinema, Mario Lorini, the president of exhibitors (Anec), speaks of “a first step, a signal” for the sector. Although certainly, he also stresses, “in these terms we cannot speak of a restart. restarting the market takes more. “In fact, it is still a start, acknowledges the representative of the cinemas,” if this will be the beginning of a path, marked by new dates and new openings, we will see “.
However, many remain at the window, waiting for everything to be clarified a little better. The stomach ache, the dissatisfaction, the bad moods, are many. Also because the requests and protocols developed by the categories in recent weeks included more and more. Starting from different criteria to fix the capacity of the rooms, without equal numbers for all. “Every place is different” everyone repeat a little bit, from theaters to opera and cinema. “The Arena of Verona cannot be placed on the same level as a theater in Catania”. There is the sore point of stopping the sale of food and drinks, which remains and constitutes a further burden for businesses. And there was a request to open also in the orange areas, to allow the flow of the public from one region to another. Without forgetting that among the limits that remain for everyone, there is the stumbling block of the curfew, which is confirmed at 10pm. A further and certainly not a small stake for cinemas, theaters, concerts, which imposes evening shows scheduled in the late afternoon. , at 19, 19.30. In short, it is difficult, if not unthinkable in these terms, that the most important films, the great titles that have remained on the bench for months, can arrive in theaters. «The market restarts with other conditions», Lorini reiterates.
In the meantime Franceschini scored the first point, convinced to move forward by dragging the sector he represents with him. In the next decree it will aim to include the opening of museums (which currently can only reopen from Monday to Friday) also on weekends. “I’m not your counterpart,” he repeats today to the agitated show business workers, as he had already told the occupants of the Globe Theater a few days ago. “I am with you, your representative in the institutions.” The country hopes so, the minister knows: “We all need a summer with squares and streets full of entertainment, music, dance and prose.”