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Adriano Aragozzini was only 22 and already a member of the Rome Journalists Association and was writing articles for widely circulated Italian magazines such as "Oggi," "TV Sorrisi e Canzoni," and "Cine Illustrato".
He then founded the news agency "Mondial News Press" which he directed for three years.
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Gino Paoli
Luigi TencoHe began his career as a personal manager working for acclaimed people as Gino Paoli and then Luigi Tenco, Domenico Modugno, Nico Fidenco and Patty Pravo and contributed to the world-wide success of Mario del Monaco and Gina Lollobrigida.
Nico Fidenco
Patty Pravo
For Domenico
Modugno and his cast of over eighty artists he
produced and organized "Cyrano" which was a
sensational success in the United States, Canada,
Argentina, Chile and Brazil. He was also responsible
for bringing Mr. Modugno back to stage after a long
illness so his new debut was at the "Sporting Club" in
Monte Carlo and at the Caracalla's Baths, the Opera
Amphitheatre in Rome.
In Italy he produced live shows starring world famous artists such as of Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis Jr., Tina Turner, and Gloria Gaynor. He signed up Italian superstars to perform shows all over the world.
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In collaboration with the Vatican publishing house he produced Pope John Paul the second's first recorded homily for the opening of the 1981 Holy Year on one side and the song "God is Love" sung by Daniel Serra on the other. It was recorded in Italian, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and sold all over the world.
In 1978 he began his career as a producer and organizer of motion pictures, television programs, and great events.
In twenty years Adriano Aragozzini has produced and organized over one hundred and fifty events in Italy. All of them were broadcast on television.
Here are some of the most important TV programs he produced: "Effetto Nuvolari" for the Fiat-Alfa Romeo Group, the biggest special ever recorded in Italy and two specials in Mexico City during the 1986 Soccer World Cup as well as "Bussola Days" dedicated to Sergio Bernardini and his well-know club. He also organized variety shows like "Di che vizio sei?" starring Gigi Proietti and Milva for RAIUNO and "La Fabbrica dei Sogni," the first live television program broadcast from three different sets, for RAITRE.
With RAIUNO he co-produced and organized the TV serial "L'Uomo che parla ai cavalli" starring Enzo Cerusico.
He was co-producer together with RAI and general organizer for the O.A.I. of thirteen films: "Dialogare," "Una storia di mostri," "Cenere in biblioteca," "Questi fantasmi," "La Vecchia Libreria," "Il Cestino," "Un caso comune," "Il Vecchio Conte," "Cavallo a Dondolo," "Cani per Bambini," "Terza Generazione," "Grandi Manovre," "Ciao Papà."
Sanremo Song Festival
From 1989 to 1991, he organized the Sanremo Song Festival bringing this major event back to its former splendour by abolishing lip-synching, having an Orchestra of fifty musicians, and introducing for the first time foreign artists who sang the songs in their own languages. According to the Italians and international press the 1990 and 1991 editions of the "Sanremo Festival" are placed with the best ones ever produced.
 Sanremo
1990 The Pooh with Milly Carlucci |
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Adriano Aragozzini is the author of the only encyclopaedia ever produced on the Sanremo Song Festival, a complete and detailed work covering the first forty years of the Sanremo Festival. The "Enciclopedia del Festival di Sanremo" was published in 1990 by Rusconi Editore.
He was also the executive producer of the 1992 and 1993 editions of the "Sanremo Festival".
In 1989 and 1990 he organized "Sanremo in the World" with all the performers of the Festival. It was the most colossal tour of all times which travelled to Japan, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Germany.
Adriano Aragozzini has always been highly successful but has also devoted himself to charitable works and received many awards. In 1989 he donated the proceeds of the world tour "Sanremo nel Mondo" to Caritas International to help the earthquake victims in Armenia with a contribution of Lire 102,500,000 for which he was thanked by the Vatican represented by Cardinal Alexandre Do Nascimento, the president of Caritas International.
He organized "Sanremo Libertà," four television shows dedicated to the Eastern European countries - Bulgaria, Czecoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Romania, and Hungary - a highly representative cultural initiative regarding the changes in Eastern Europe which was made possible under the patronage of the President of Italy, Francesco Cossiga.
In 1992 and 1993 he produced and organized "Il Canzoniere dell'Anno" and "Il Canzoniere dell'Estate" for RAIUNO and "Il Canzoniere delle Feste", three specials for the Christmas season broadcast by RAIDUE. The three programs were well received by the audience and critically acclaimed obtaining prime ratings.
With RAIDUE, Taurus Film of Munich and Initial Audiovisual of Paris he co-produced and organized "La Scalata" a television serial of six one-and-a half-hour films which wasa world-wide success. "La Scalata" won the popular "Umbria Fiction" contest for being the best serial of the year. Adriano Aragozzini and RAI co-produced and he organized nineteen movies.
He created and organized the "Premio Internazionale di Scultura Gioia Lazzerini" in memory of his wife who died young. The exhibition was in the Church of Sant'Agostino in Pietrasanta, Tuscany. For the first time in Italy fifty-eight sculptors from twenty-eight different countries participated in a sculpture contest.
Adriano Aragozzini has been active in the United States for over thirty years, a country where he has presented the most famous Italian artists in shows and concerts in all the main cities, receiving awards for the promotion of popular Italian culture in the United States.
In 1984 he realized Domenico Modugno's debut on Broadway and the Americans went crazy for Mr. Volare.
In 1989 and 1990 he produced and organized "Sanremo in the World" in the huge arena of Madison Square Garden with all the artists who had performed at the "Sanremo Festival" in Italy.
In 1991 he made possible the return of Domenico Modugno to the American stage after his long illness with an historical concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. The show was broadcast by RAIUNO on prime time. With Domenico Modugno Adriano Aragozzini also went on a tour in North America and Canada.
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In 1992 he organized "CANTANAPOLI - Napoli Internazionale" which was broadcast by RAIDUE and presented by Renzo Arbore from Carnegie Hall in New York linked to the TV studio in Naples and "Teatro Coliseo" in Buenos Aires. |
In 1994 he organized and produced "Festa Azzurra," a program presented by Renzo Arbore from the Paramount Madison Square Garden in New York with the partecipation of the Italian national football team, the biggest event of its kind in the United States that year. In Italy it was broadcast live by RAIUNO via satellite, on prime time.
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In 1995 he produced and organized DALLAMERICAMORANDI. The setting in New York took place at Madison Square Garden and in Toronto at the Maple Leaf Garden. With Lucio Dalla and Gianni Morandi, two superstars of Italian songs, the whole show was super.
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The Madison show was also broadcast by Canale 5 and got high audience ratings.
Adriano Aragozzini is the only Italian producer to have realized shows in the legendary Madison Square Garden.
Since 1994 Adriano Aragozzini has successfully organized tours for "Renzo Arbore L'Orchestra Italiana" in Italy and abroad. Their world tour was a major success in Rio and Buenos Aires in South America, in New York and Atlantic City in the States, in London, England at the Royal Albert Hall, then in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in Australia, Toronto and Montreal in Canada, in Seville, Spain in the Plaza Espana and finally in Moscow, Russia. Renzo Arbore was the first Italian artist to perform in the famous Red Square in Moscow in front of an audience of over 20,000 people.
In January 1997 he organized the concert "Renzo Arbore L'Orchestra Italiana" in the well-known Olympia Theatre in Paris, France and from Jan. 25 to Feb. 4, 1997 the "Renzo Arbore L'Orchestra Italiana" shows were performed in Miami, Florida and broadcast by WLRN TV CHANNEL 17, in Caracas, Venezuela broadcast by the Venezolana Television Canal 8, in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Canal 9 Libertad and in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Bandierantes.
During thirty years he has been active abroad, Adriano Aragozzini has managed and produced over three hundred events and TV shows around the world starring leading Italian and foreign stars, especially in North, Central, and South America.
Adriano Aragozzini is the only Italian impresario producing shows for the world's most important TV stations: Spain's, France, Portugal, England, Germany, Russia, Greece, USA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Columbia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and Japan.
Adriano Aragozzini has received over thirty awards and prizes for his professional career in Italy, Spain, Australia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile and the United States and on Nov. 8, 1995 Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York, and Peter Vallone, Speaker and Majority Leader of the City Council, conferred on him the Honorary Citizenship of the City of New York for the promotion of popular Italian culture in thirty years of his activity in the United States of America.
Joe Carollo, Mayor of Miami proclaimed Jan. 25, 1997 "Adriano Aragozzini Day" in Miami, Florida for his contribution to the promotion of popular Italian culture in Miami.
On March 2, 1997 at the Universitas Internationalis Studiorum Superiorum "Pro-Deo" in New York, in the presence of the Academic Senate, the university's chancellor, Archbishop Don Lorenzo Abrugnedo conferred an honorary degree in "Science of Communications" on Adriano Aragozzini for his thirty years of professional commitment to the promotion of popular Italian culture all over the world but most of all in the United States of America.
In Dec. 1997 he organized and produced the "Primo Star Festival di Montecarlo," three musical performances in the "Salle des Etoiles" of the Sporting Club in Montecarlo.
The program was a prime time live broadcast run by Telemontecarlo, presented by Red Ronnie and Martina Colombari with guests such as Mireille Mathieu, Gino Paoli, Riccardo Cocciante, Francesco Baccini, Elio e le Storie Tese, Anna Oxa, Mietta, Ambra, Max Biaggi, Claudia Pandolfi, Lorena Forteza and others.
In 1998, again for Telemontecarlo, he produced and organized twelve episodes of "Top Parade," a weekly program dedicated to the top of the pops presented by Paola Saluzzi and Mauro Marino.
In 1998 he produced and organized the concerts "Da me a te" with Claudio Baglioni performing in three places: at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, San Siro Stadium in Milan, and La Favorita in Palermo. At each stadium Claudio Baglioni was applauded by an audience of over 250,000 people. The concerts in Rome and Milan were broadcast live by RAIDUE on prime time getting the highest ratings compared to all the other Italian TV stations (Rai, Mediaset ).
In 1999 he organized for the Austrian and Slovenian states and
the Friuli Venezia Giulia region jointly the event
"Senza
Confini" which took place in one
of the large halls of the UN Building in New York. It was attended
by media representatives from all over the world.
In 2000 he produced and organized the concert-show "A me gli occhi 2000" set at the south curve of the Olympic Stadium in Rome, starring Gigi Proietti, in front of 20,000 people. The show was broadcast live by Canale 5 on prime time.
