Torri Apologizes After Ron’s Late Exit and Unreceived Award Incident

“It was all a major organizational misunderstanding. Ron did not know he was supposed to receive an award on the square at the port, but on the stage of the concert in Albisano,”

says Valerio Terenzio, head of Angeli Custodi agency, in an official statement sent to L’Arena. “Their artists, including Ron, Sabina Guzzanti, Antonio Albanese, Corrado Guzzanti, just to name a few,” as the Roman manager clarifies over the phone.

The day after the singer’s concert—and more importantly, the day after the significant “slight” inflicted by Ron on about three hundred people and political and administrative authorities, who were left waiting for just over two hours on the port square where, before the concert, the singer was supposed to receive the keys to the city as a prize—the tone starts to return to normal, with an attempt to “rectify the mistake.”

Arriving significantly late, and as soon as he stepped on stage to receive the award, Ron had decided to become irritated by a single person’s whistles and to dismiss everyone—citizens, authorities, and press—and escape to Albisano without collecting the prize.

That same evening, the singer had apologized from the stage and, separately, to the mayor and deputy mayor of Torri, Alberto Vedovelli and Giorgio Bonoldi.

Now, a few days later, comes the official statement. Not from the singer, but from his agency.

The agency has basically taken responsibility for the incident, explaining that it was caused by “incorrect information given to Ron, which consequently damaged the artist’s image, for a matter he is not responsible for. For this reason, the agency apologizes to Ron, to the Torri Municipality, and to the public,” signed by Valerio Terenzio.

The reasons for the lack of announcement and future prospects

But if Ron was genuinely not informed that he was to receive an award in Torri, why did he not immediately say so once he stepped onto the stage set up at the port? “I don’t know,” Terenzio clarifies.

“However, it should be considered that Ron is a very sensitive and nervous person. What we want to clarify, although the ‘frittata’ has already been made, is that the fault of the incident is entirely ours,” he concludes.

“The episode is now closed,” comments Giorgio Bonoldi, the deputy mayor.

“Furthermore, Ron’s agent had offered, just a few days ago, the singer’s willingness to return to Torri, perhaps at the end of August, to perform with his guitar on the port square.” In other words, a gesture of apology, “even though the press release with Ron’s signed apologies, which he himself promised, has not yet arrived,” he adds.

The offer to return for free to the town, which the Municipal Administration thanked but did not accept.

“At this point,” Bonoldi continues, “a new evening with Ron no longer seems appropriate.” Indeed, after what happened, many in the town have been questioning—and perhaps raising an not entirely misplaced criticism—about why the keys to the city were handed to “a singer who, anyway, has no ties to the town or the lake and who has never done anything special for Torri.”

“The keys,” explains Bonoldi, “have the same significance as a commemorative plaque. They do not imply anything for the Administration or the citizens. It’s not like granting honorary citizenship to a distinguished person.”

The idea was originally conceived simply to give everyone, including those who would not attend the concert, the chance to see a nationally renowned singer perform live, who, aside from the Torri incident, has been known for his artistic merits at a national level for thirty years.”