The concert as a journey and story: Cesare Cremonini in San Siro

“I don’t want to travel alone,” says Cesare Cremonini to the San Siro public. The trip to America that gave birth to “Alaska Baby” has now become a gigantic and ambitious show, which wants to travel away from the classic models of stadium concerts. A story through a scaletta of 27 songs for two and a half hours of music and images on a mega -screen of 65 meters by 22, which makes CONI 55 thousand of the stadium between the Boreal and pink albe, snowy mountains, deserts, oceans, up to the arcades of Bologna who frame the duet with Luca Carboni on “San Luca”, a return home that is the most touching moment of the show.

The one towards Alaska was an almost solitary journey, in search of itself, from which the music and songs that now brings to the stage were born and shares with its audience. “This concert is connected to the album, it is the longest of my career, not for bulimia but because it is a story,” the singer -songwriter told us, before the show. “Usually in the ladders we start from the hits, in this case I did the opposite: I started from the album and built the show around eight songs”.
A spectacular machine that is only at the debut: after the zero date in Lignano, the one at the Milanese stadium was the real “before” – but they are only the first stages of a project that announces more than two years, a production that already in 2026 will pass from the stadiums to open spaces such as the Circus Maximus, the Milan Hippodrome and a new space in the IMOLA Hiking.

A musical blockbuster – “But I don’t give anything for granted”

Meanwhile, there are these 12 dates, all sold out for months – in a summer where in several cases there have been sales under the expectations, cancellations and postponements, “Cremonini Live 25” is a blockbuster. “The concert is an artistic project, beyond the numbers, which obviously please make a forum of Assago after 12 years of career – I still remember the sensations of the next morning – and I do nothing for granted”.
MegaScemi and special effects, but everything starts from the songs, with several rearrangements and a new part of musical production, of fragments of electronic music that bind the songs and the story, edited by Alessandro Natalizia/Not Waving, who co-produced the album: “We took the whole repertoire and where we considered it necessary, we put our hand,” says Cremonini. For example, the transition from “a pink dawn” – visually one of the most spectacular moments of the show – to “acrobat” is linked by one of these musical moments, in which an icy plane emerges on stage and Cremonini sings surrounded by a choreography of bright LED circles.

The songs of the new album are the emotional and narrative center of the evening, but after 25 years Cremonini has an impressive repertoire: the concert is not conceived as a “Greatest Hits”, but in fact it is, because it opens with “Alaska baby” and the boreal aurora recreated on the screen, but immediately after they arrive “they say of me”, “mother mother”, “the comedian” The most recent but already accepted as a classic: almost immediately Divebta difficult to hear Cremonini’s voice, submerged by the choirs of the stadium.

The first part of the show, thanks to the emotion, takes a little to messed up, the show takes off especially in the second part, where there is a great balance between the size played and the visual show. But the whole show is built as a great film, a single narrative and musical flow, with ups and downs, several acts that merge: thus, after the part on the piano only (“come and see why”, “the six and twenty -six”) the introspective delicacy of “easy girls” comes, to which the crescendo of “world” is opposed (with another beautiful musical introduction, this time electronic), therefore the explosion of “logical explosion”. And “Gray Goose”.
Then it is the moment of the guests: Elisa in “Aurore Boreali”, an excited Luca Carboni in “San Luca” who takes the ovation of San Siro. Pure emotion, before the ending with classics among the classics, “50 special”, “jam #25”, “poetic”, “nobody wants to be Robin”, “a better day”.
In the midst also a nice more minimal musical moment with “son of a king”, with Cremonini to the accordion and the band in the stage center, between “Libertango” and Filuzzi, the Bolognese smooth. Cremonini told us that in Bologna it could use the tool, which has been studying for a couple of years, for a tribute – but we do not reveal the surprise, hoping that it concretizes.

The production numbers

During the press conference that preceded the show, Cremonini made a joke on the “kilos of confetti”, interpretable as a good -natured scolding to colleagues who had talked about it in recent days about their concert. More than the numbers of the confetti – which are also in the Cremonini show, fired immediately in the first song, together with the fireworks that appear at the beginning and then on “Poetics” – in this case the show numbers are communicated in this case: in addition to the already mentioned 65 for 22 meters screen, there are over 660 LED projectors, 30 smoke and laser machines, 10 bright wheels on automation, 270 Watt. Everything uses over 200 people and more than 150 operators, who move with 45 bilici, of which 15 only for stage structures.
For San Siro, an original Delay system was designed to adequately cover every part of the stadium, with a sound edited by Marco Monforte and Marc Carolan, the Muse Fontico. The creative direction is by Claudio Santucci of Giòforma – historic collaborator of Cremonini – with the visual production of Northhouse, a London creative study; The light design is curated by Mamo Pozzoli, while the director Erika Rombaldoni edited the choreography of the eight performers on the stage.

Trust and credibility

Tonight he replies again in Milan – there will still be Luca Carboni, but not Elisa, who on Wednesday will have his debut from Headliner to San Siro. Carboni will also be present in Bologna (of course) and will be involved in as many dates possible, explains Cremonini. In Rome there will be Jovanotti (which tonight appeared on video during “world”, as usual).
While waiting for concerts for 2026 – which will have the same production, with some possible variation in songs – there should be no other record releases, even if Cremonini says that in this phase he likes to collaborate and does not exclude some possible surprises.
“I want to overcome what I did in the past,” explains Cremonini. “I built a trust that the world of entertainment calls credibility: I want to be an artist who gets involved, who continues to say something, who does not sit on his laurels”.

Scaletta:

“Alaska baby”
“They say about me”
“Fathermadre”
“The comedian (you know what a laugh)”
“The girl of the future”
“Now that I don’t have you anymore”
“The new Broadway star”
“Good trip (Share the Love)”
“Lost in the Weekend”
“Acrobati”
“Come and see why”
“The six and twenty -six”
“Easy girls”
“A pink dawn”

“World”
“Logico #1”
“Gray Goose”
“Boreal Aurore” (with Elisa)
“Despite it all”
“Son of a king” “San Luca” (with Luca Carboni)

“50 Special”
“Jam #25”
“Poetics”
“Nobody wants to be Robin”
“A better day”