Overview
- The funeral is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the Church of San Marco in Brera, with longtime friend and jazz trumpeter Paolo Fresu performing as Vanoni had explicitly asked in 2020.
- Fresu, who first collaborated with Vanoni in the early 1990s and accompanied her at her honorary degree ceremony, published a heartfelt letter recalling their decades of music and friendship and declined to reveal in advance what he will play.
- Roughly 5,000 people queued at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan to pay respects at the camera ardente, with figures such as Fabio Fazio, Fiorella Mannoia, Liliana Segre, and many younger fans joining the public farewell.
- Milan marked the occasion with civic mourning, keeping the viewing open again this morning before the service at the theater where Vanoni began her career.
- Vanoni died at 91, reported as cardiac arrest, and tributes spanned national television with Che tempo che fa dedicating an emotional episode as her son’s necrology thanked her for a life filled with love for music and those closest to her.