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2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony

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Program
Rhythm of Passion Greetings from the Alps Italy Torino Olympic City Olympic Spirit Heroes of Our Time - Parade of Nations From Renaissance to Baroque From Futurism to Future Pit Stop Peace Light the Passion Fortissimo
Security measures
Dignitaries and other officials in attendance
See also
References
External Links

The Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics (Torino 2006) was held on February 10, 2006 beginning at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy.

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The ceremony was attended by 35,000 spectators with the presence of numerous international and Italian guests on the stage and heads of state and government on the stands. The event was broadcast live to an estimated two-billion audience worldwide by 32 television cameras.

The ceremony saluted the region's culture and history, was highlighted by Italian celebrities and showcased Italian designs. There were the customary parade of athletes and raising of the host nation's flag and the Olympic flag. Apart from the choreography, the fireworks, and the pageantry, the ceremony was a reminder of peace as a goal of these Games. It climaxed with the lighting of the Olympic Flame.

Program

The theme of the program was "Passion Lives Here," and the 4000m² stage was shaped like an anatomic heart with a mosh pit in the centre where the athletes congregated for the second half of the ceremonies. The athletes were thus put in the centre of action and in front of the stage, emphasizing that the heart of each athlete was the focus of the Games.

There were sentiments of self-conceit amongst TOROC for not including a tribute section during the Opening Ceremonies honoring the Past Host Cities of the previous installments of the Olympic Winter Games that was the very first part of the XIX Olympic Winter Games that had been held in Salt Lake City, USA on February 8, 2002.

The ceremony was conducted in French and English, the two official languages of the International Olympic Committee, and Italian, the language of the host country.

The program was executed by 6,100 volunteers and 240 professionals after 15,000 man days of work.

Rhythm of Passion

Sparks of Passion

Artistic, 1m countdown plus 4m 20s
776 performers
Direction: Gabriele Vacis
Assistant direction: Roberto Tarasco
Choreography: Giuseppe Arena
Moshpit choreography: Doug Jack
Pyrotechnical effects: Christophe Berthonneau
Segment coordinator: Annalisa Barbieri
Helmet-donning skaters costume design: Lino Dainese
Sparks special effects: Vittorio Comi
Helmet-donning skaters choreography: Giuseppe Arena
Helmet-donning skaters: Fabio Cassinelli, Simone Giaccaglia, Luca Imperio, Elia Locagliano, Simone Martino, Daniele Pin
Original Music: Composed arranged and orchestrated by Michele Centonze in collaboration with Stefano Nanni

The Opening Ceremonies began with a traditional countdown by the spectators. Italian gymnast Yuri Chechi as a shaman striking an anvil with a hammer opened the first scene of the program representing the industrial past of the Piedmont region. Each strike spewed up a fountain of flames and were responded to with flames over three metres high, lit from 52 nozzles lined up around the piazza. A group of inline skaters in red unitards soon entered and executed their choreograph and formations. With the fire, costume and flood light, the stage was soon turned into a sea of red. In the mosh pit, performers executed synchronised swimming moves to the pulsing rhythm. It was said{{by whom|date=June 2012}} that the choreographer was inspired by synchronised swimming when he saw the event for the first time in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

The skaters then gyrated to the pulsing rhythm forming a familiar heart shape pumping to the beat. The formation was soon shattered when a lone skater symbolising a spark of passion shot through the beating heart. Six helmet-donning skaters then entered with two-foot flames flared from the back of their helmets and criscrossed the stage.

Greetings from the Alps

Mountain Folk

Artistic, 4m 30s
829 performers
Direction: Gabriele Vacis
Moshpit choreography: Doug Jack
Segment coordinator: Annalisa Barbieri
Music: Occitane Anthem "Se Chanta" performed by L'Ange Gardien Chorus; Ouverture "Gazza Ladra" by Rossini, arranged and orchestrated by Michele Centonze in collaboration with Stefano Nanni

Following the exit of the flaming skaters, the sounding of seven alphorns to the notes of the Occitan Hymn signaled the beginning of the next segment that paid tribute to the Alps and the seven Alpine countries: Italy, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany and Slovenia. Artificial snow and life-size pine tree shapes set the mood for this segment as the stage was transformed from red to white.

It had been 14 years since the Winter Olympic Games were last held in the Alps, in 1992 in Albertville, France. The 13 million people living in the mountainous region were represented by dancers waltzing in their national costumes. Life-size cow effigies were pulled in and paraded around the stage representing the significance of the dairy farming industry in the Alpine region. Three waltzing couples in cow suits soon entered the scene, while cow bells were heard ringing from the crowd.

After the stage was cleared, 50 performers in white unitards entered with very large white balloons on their heads symbolising the arrival of the snowflakes. A change of music signalled the exit of the snowflakes and in the mosh pit performers formed a snowflake which was lit up by flashlights as the segment came to a close.

Italy

Italian flagEntry of the authoritiesItalian anthem

Direction: Gabriele Vacis
Artistic direction and costume design: Giorgio Armani
Protocol coordinator: Sigrid Guillion Mangilli
Protocol segment coordinator: Pamela Allvin
Segment coordinator: Annalisi Barbieri
Coordinator: CONI - Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano
Carabineers' Guard of Honour
Music: "Amarcord", by Nino Rota; Italian Anthem, composed by Goffredo Mameli and Michele Novaro, arranged by Michele Centonze

This section paid tribute to the Italian flag, whose entrance was led by 26 Olympic medalists in white suits and gowns marching in two files. Following the athletes was model, singer and future French first lady Carla Bruni carrying a folded Italian flag. Bruni wore a sparkling gown by Giorgio Armani, inspired by crystal and ice.

The stage was flooded in the Italian colours red, white, and green by the coloured spotlights at the top of the stadium as the entrance of the President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge and the President of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was announced.

Sustained drumbeats set a mood as three military police officers entered and retrieved the flag from Bruni and brought it to the flag pole.

The flag was raised to the solo rendition of the Italian national anthem after a short pastoral orchestra introduction (as opposed to the usual marching introduction). "Il Canto degli Italiani" was performed by nine-year-old Eleonora Benetti wearing the Italian tricolour. Her verse ended as the choir joined in for the much more rapid refrain.

Torino Olympic City

XX Olympic Winter GamesThe Great Skier

Artistic, 6m 10s
467 performers
Direction & Choreography Concept: Doug Jack
Choreography: Bryn Walters, Nikis Lagousakos, Claire Terri
Segment coordinator: Annalisa Barbieri
Original music: composed arranged and orchestrated by Michele Centonze in collaboration with Stefano Nanni

467 performers, each wearing one of the 5 Olympic colours, created a 20 meter tall ski jumper formation, after the playing of the Italian national anthem. The choreography showed an animated ski jumper gliding down the take-off slope, flying through the night air and eventually landing safely in perfect form on the ground. Puffs of air could be seen as the jumper prepared his jump. Performers carrying a blue banner then entered to show the skier gliding down the slope. In flight the figure was lit up by headlamp flashlights in a formation of a ski jumper in peak flight. The ski jumper eventually made a graceful landing on the ground as performers released confetti (to represent a snowplow stop) and cheered as the segment came to a close.

Olympic Spirit

Citius, altius, fortius

Artistic, 6m 10s
149 performers
Direction and choreography: Giulia Staccioli (Kataklò)
Technical director: Richard Hartman
Production director: Simone Masserini
Segment coordinator: Vichi Lombardo
Kataklò technical Coordinator: Andrea Zorzi
Ground choreography: Bryn Walters
Performer athletes: Maria Agatiello, Davide Agostini, Sara Bonarti,Ilaria Cinzia Cavagna, Mauro Maurizio Colucci, Valentina Marino, Giulia Piolanti, Stefano Pribaz, Davide Rabaioli, Marco Zanotti, Gabriele Zappa
Original music: composed, arranged and orchestrated by Michele Centonze, in collaboration with Stefano Nanni

The Sparks of Passion reentered the stadium in this segment where the largest and tallest Olympic Rings for the Opening Ceremonies would be created. Acrobats could be seen maneuvering on three ring shaped frames floating up and down along four lattice columns on the opposite end of the stadium to the stage and the mosh pit. Dancers in red unitards below gyrated to pulsing beats as the theme of passion returned for this segment of the program. While the acrobats descended to the ground, two additional ring shaped frames were raised. The five circular frames were flipped vertically revealing the five Olympic Rings shimmering in light. The rings were then illuminated in the Olympic colours and the structure was lit up in fireworks. The black ring in the centre of the symbol was substituted with white since it is impossible to produce black light.

Heroes of Our Time - Parade of Nations

Protocol, 53m
Director & Choreography: Doug Jack
Placard bearers' costumes: Moschino (Rossella Jardini, Joan Tann)
Music: Medley disco music

The national teams then entered underneath the five-ring structure in the traditional Parade of Nations. As with all Olympic games, the first team to emerge was Greece, since it was the birthplace of the games, and the host nation Italy entered last. The rest of the nations entered following the alphabetical order according to the spelling of the country in Italian, the language of the host country, as is tradition. Greece entering first and Italy entering last also symbolized the countries that hosted the two most recent Olympics: Greece hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics games held in Athens, and Italy hosted these.

The names of the nations were announced first in Italian, then in English and followed by French.

North Korea and South Korea marched together under the Unification Flag for the first time in the Winter Olympic Games. The two nations have been doing so since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. North Korea, however, did not participate in the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Altogether, 80 National Olympic Committees participated in the Games, an increase from 77 in the previous Winter Games.

The Moschino designed the clothes of the women bearing the placards with team names in Italian for the athletes' parade. The dresses were shaped as snowy mountain tops, complete with pine trees and small houses lit up by embedded lights. Miss Italia, Edelfa Chiara Masciotta, was carrying the placard for team Italy who wore a special dress designed to pay tribute to Turin. When assembled on stage the ladies represented the Italian Alps' beauty, strength, and poise.

The march of the Olympic teams was accompanied by a selection of 1970s and 1980s American and European disco music, including "Video Killed the Radio Star," "YMCA" by the Village People, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, "Daddy Cool" by Boney M and songs by the Doobie Brothers and Eurythmics.

The following table lists the countries and territories in the order of their entrance. It is worth noting that not all the athletes participated in the opening ceremonies, as some may have chosen to prepare themselves for races and competitions that were scheduled the very next morning. Other commitments may have prevented some athletes from participating in the parade. For example, most men's hockey teams would not arrive in Turin until the following week since most of the players are involved with the NHL. On the other hand, the parade included officials, judges, coaches and other team staff.

Nation	Italian Name	Flag bearer	Sport	Athletes
GRE\|2006 Winter}}	Grecia	Eleftherios Fafalis	Cross-country skiing	5
ALB\|2006 Winter}}{{Ref\|first}}	Albania	Erjon Tola	Alpine skiing	1
ALG\|2006 Winter}}{{Ref\|first}}	Algeria	Christelle Laura Douibi	Alpine skiing	2
AND\|2006 Winter}}	Andorra	Alex Antor	Alpine skiing	3
ARG\|2006 Winter}}	Argentina	Maria Belen Simari Birkner	Alpine skiing	9
ARM\|2006 Winter}}	Armenia	Vazgen Azroyan	Figure skating	5
AUS\|2006 Winter}}	Australia	Alisa Camplin	Freestyle skiing	40
AUT\|2006 Winter}}	Austria	Renate Götschl	Alpine skiing	85
AZE\|2006 Winter}}	Azerbaigian	Igor Lukanin	Figure skating	2
BEL\|2006 Winter}}	Belgio	Kevin van der Perren	Figure skating	4
BER\|2006 Winter}}	Bermuda	Patrick Singleton	Skeleton	1
BLR\|2006 Winter}}	Bielorussia	Alexandr Popov	Coach (Biathlon)	28
BIH\|2006 Winter}}	Bosnia-Erzegovina	Aleksandra Vasiljević	Biathlon	6
BRA\|2006 Winter}}	Brasile	Isabel Clark	Snowboarding	10
BUL\|2006 Winter}}	Bulgaria	Ekaterina Dafovska	Biathlon	21
CAN\|2006 Winter}}	Canada	Danielle Goyette	Ice hockey	196
CZE\|2006 Winter}}	Repubblica Ceca	Martina Sáblíková	Speed skating	85
CHI\|2006 Winter}}	Cile	Daniela Anguita	Alpine skiing	9
CHN\|2006 Winter}}	Cina	flag}}	Short track speed skating	78
CYP\|2006 Winter}}	Cipro	Theodoros Christodoulou	Alpine skiing	1
PRK\|2006 Winter}}	Corea	Han Jong-In	Figure skating	6
KOR\|2006 Winter}}	Corea	Lee Bo-ra	Speed skating	40
CRC\|2006 Winter}}	Costa Rica	Arthur James Barton	Coach	1
CRO\|2006 Winter}}	Croazia	Janica Kostelić	Alpine skiing	24
DEN\|2006 Winter}}	Danimarca	Dorthe Holm	Curling	5
EST\|2006 Winter}}	Estonia	Eveli Saue	Biathlon	28
ETH\|2006 Winter}}	Etiopia	Robel Teklemariam	Cross-country skiing	1
MKD\|2006 Winter}}	Ex Repubblica Jugoslava di Macedonia	Gjorgi Markovski	Alpine skiing	3
FIN\|2006 Winter}}	Finlandia	Janne Lahtela	Freestyle skiing	102
FRA\|2006 Winter}}	Francia	Bruno Mingeon	Bobsleigh	89
GEO\|2006 Winter}}	Georgia	Vakhtang Murvanidze	Figure skating	3
GER\|2006 Winter}}	Germania	Kati Wilhelm	Biathlon	164
JPN\|2006 Winter}}	Giappone	Joji Kato	Speed skating	112
GBR\|2006 Winter}}	Gran Bretagna	Rhona Martin	Curling	40
HKG\|2006 Winter}}	Hong Kong, Cina	Yueshuang Han	Short track speed skating	1
IND\|2006 Winter}}	India	Neha Ahuja	Alpine skiing	4
IRI\|2006 Winter}}	Iran	Alidad Saveh-Shemshaki	Alpine skiing	2
IRL\|2006 Winter}}	Irlanda	Kirsten McGarry	Alpine skiing	4
ISL\|2006 Winter}}	Islanda	Dagny Kristjansdottir	Alpine skiing	5
ISV\|2006 Winter}}	Isole Vergini	Anne Abernathy^[1]	Luge	1
ISR\|2006 Winter}}	Israele	Galit Chait	Figure skating	5
KAZ\|2006 Winter}}	Kazakistan	Aleksandr Koreshkov	Ice hockey	56
KEN\|2006 Winter}}	Kenya	Phillip Boit	Cross-country skiing	1
KGZ\|2006 Winter}}	Kirghizistan	Ivan Borisov	Alpine skiing	1
LAT\|2006 Winter}}	Lettonia	Arturs Irbe	Ice hockey	58
LIB\|2006 Winter}}	Libano	Edmond Keiroue	3
LIE\|2006 Winter}}	Liechtenstein	Jessica Walter	Alpine skiing	6
LTU\|2006 Winter}}	Lituania	Vida Venciene	Chef de mission	7
LUX\|2006 Winter}}	Lussemburgo	Fleur Maxwell	Figure skating	1
MAD\|2006 Winter}}	Madagascar	citizen}}	Alpine skiing	1
MDA\|2006 Winter}}	Moldova	Natalia Levtchenkova	Biathlon	7
MON\|2006 Winter}}	Monaco	Patrice Servelle	Bobsleigh	4
MGL\|2006 Winter}}	Mongolia	Khash Erdene Khurelbaatar	Cross-country skiing	2
NEP\|2006 Winter}}	Nepal	Dachhiri Sherpa	Cross-country skiing	1
NOR\|2006 Winter}}	Norvegia	Pål Trulsen	Curling	81
NZL\|2006 Winter}}	Nuova Zelanda	Sean Becker	Curling	18
NED\|2006 Winter}}	Paesi Bassi	Jan Bos	Speed skating	35
POL\|2006 Winter}}	Polonia	sick}}	Snowboarding	48
POR\|2006 Winter}}	Portogallo	Danny Silva	Cross-country skiing	1
ROU\|2006 Winter}}	Romania	Gheorghe Chiper	Figure skating	25
RUS\|2006 Winter}}	Russia	Dmitry Dorofeev	Speed skating	178
SMR\|2006 Winter}}	San Marino	Marino Cardelli	Alpine skiing	1
SEN\|2006 Winter}}	Senegal	Leyti Seck	Alpine skiing	1
SCG\|2006 Winter}}	Serbia e Montenegro	Jelena Lolović	Alpine skiing	6
SVK\|2006 Winter}}	Slovacchia	Walter Marx	Luge	62
SLO\|2006 Winter}}	Slovenia	Tadeja Brankovič	Biathlon	42
ESP\|2006 Winter}}	Spagna	Maria Jose Rienda	Alpine skiing	16
USA\|2006 Winter}}	Stati Uniti d'America	Chris Witty	Speed skating	211
RSA\|2006 Winter}}	Sud Africa	Alexander Heath	Alpine skiing	3
SWE\|2006 Winter}}	Svezia	Anja Pärson	Alpine skiing	112
SUI\|2006 Winter}}	Svizzera	Philipp Schoch	Snowboarding	143
TJK\|2006 Winter}}	Tagikistan	Andrei Drygin	Alpine skiing	1
TPE\|2006 Winter}}	Taipei Cinese	Chih-Hung Ma	Luge	1
THA\|2006 Winter}}	Thailandia	Prawat Nagvajara	Cross-country skiing	1
TUR\|2006 Winter}}	Turchia	citizen}}{{Citation needed\|date=August 2007}}	Figure skating	6
UKR\|2006 Winter}}	Ucraina	Natalia Yakushenko	Luge	53
HUN\|2006 Winter}}	Ungheria	Rozsa Darazs	Short track speed skating	20
UZB\|2006 Winter}}	Uzbekistan	Kayrat Ermetov	Alpine skiing	4
VEN\|2006 Winter}}	Venezuela	Werner Hoeger	Luge	1
ITA\|2006 Winter}}	Italia	Carolina Kostner	Figure skating	184

{{note|first}} The 2006 games were the first winter games in which these countries have participated.
{{note|flag}} Yang Yang (A) was China's first female flag bearer for the Olympics.
{{note|citizen}} These flag bearers are also citizens of Canada.
{{note|sick}} This young snowboarder replaced her older colleague Jagna Marczulajtis who was sick.

From Renaissance to Baroque

Artistic, 4m 12s
515 performers
Direction and choreography: Monica Maimone
Artistic direction: Valerio Festi
Costumes: Gabriella Pescucci
Segment coordinator: Nicola Tamburrano
Producer: Alessandra Rossetti
Set design: Roberto Rebaudengo
Drammaturgy: Paolo Dalla Sega
Flag wavers' coordinator: Stefano Mosele
Flag wavers and musicians: F.I.SB. - Federazione Italiana Sbandieratori
Original music: composed, arranged anc orchestrated by Michele Centonze, in collaboration with Stefano Nanni

After a short homage to Dante and The Divine Comedy, there were Renaissance and Baroque displays, with an homage to Arcimboldo. A scene was based on the Birth of Venus painting. The role of Venus was played by Czech supermodel Eva Herzigová, emerging from a shell like in the Birth of Venus by Botticelli. A dance played a major part in the ceremony, as well as displays of flag waving and baroque bands.

Sportscaster Bob Costas called it a celebration of the emergence from the dark days of the Middle Ages, embracing the intellectual pursuits of art, literature and music.

From Futurism to Future

Artistic, 9m 30s
205 performers and 24 bambolari
Direction: Enzo Cosimi
Futurist hero: Roberto Bolle
Costumes and props: Daniela Dal Cin
Segment coordinator: Nicola Tamburrano
Set machine realization: Raoul Rossigni
Music: composed and arranged by Ritchie Hawtin ("Substance Abuse" from the F.U.S.E. disc Dimension Intrusion)

The segment started with a modern ballet performance which led from a replica of Umberto Boccioni's sculpture "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" to a celebration of Futurism.

Roberto Bolle performed as lead in the dance part.^[2] He represented the futuristic hero, dancing with other mechanical dancers to show modernity, technology, and speed.

The second part was performed by kung-fu athletes representing futuristic soldiers, while in the final section a group of bodybuilders pushed 6 motorbikes in the center of the stadium, thus emphasizing the role played by speed and technology in Futurism.

Pit Stop

Artistic, about 4m
Driver: Luca Badoer
Note: this segment was kept secret before the Ceremony and is not reported in the official programme

Italian driver Luca Badoer drove a red Ferrari 248 F1 car bearing only the Olympic Rings, Torino 2006 name and Italian tricolore to the centre of the stadium, performing 'donuts' and revving the V8 engine for a few minutes.

===Words and Symbols===

Address by the President of the Organising CommitteeAddress by the President of the International Olympic CommitteePresident of the Italian Republic: Opening of the GamesOlympic AnthemEntry of the Olympic FlagOlympic Oath

Protocol, 20m
264 performers
Choreography: Doug Jack
Olympic flag coordinator: Nicoletta Mantovani
Protocolcoordinator: Sigrid Guillion Mangilli
Protocol segment Coordinator: Pamela Allvin

After the Parade of Nations had concluded and the athletes were gathered in the center of the stadium, two short speeches in Italian, French and English were delivered.

The first speech came from Valentino Castellani, the chief organizer of the Torino 2006 Olympic Games. He declared the industrial city "the world capital of sports" during the Olympics.

Valentino Castellani was followed by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, who told the Olympic athletes, "Your achievements will inspire and motivate future generations," before adding, "Please compete cleanly, without using doping." Rogge also hoped for peace during his short speech. "Our world today is in need of peace and brotherhood, the values of the Olympic Games," he said. "May these Games be held in peace in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce."

Rogge then introduced Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who declared the games officially open.

Following the trend set from the selection of eight personalities representing the five continents and the three pillars of Olympism at the Salt Lake City Olympics Opening Ceremony, the flag was brought this time into the stadium by eight women:^[3]

Sophia Loren, Italian born actress who was the patroness of the Ceremonies;
Isabel Allende, Chilean novelist;
Nawal El Moutawakel, member of the IOC from Morocco, the first Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold medal;
Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist;
Wangari Maathai, Nobel laureate and the founder of the Kenyan Green Belt Movement;
Manuela Di Centa, Italian seven-time Nordic skiing gold medalist; She would later bestow the 50 km (Cross Country) Freestyle Gold Medal to her brother Giorgio Di Centa during the Closing Ceremony.
Maria de Lurdes Mutola, gold medalist from Mozambique;
Somaly Mam, Cambodian human rights activist.

Their walk with the flag was accompanied by Giuseppe Verdi's "Triumphant March," from Aida. The Olympic flag was then handed over to eight members of the Alpini, an Italian infantry unit, who raised the flag while the Olympic Hymn was played.

Italian skier Giorgio Rocca recited the Olympic Oath on behalf of all the athletes from the podium followed by Fabio Bianchetti from the International Skating Union reading the oath on behalf of all judges. There had been a major judging controversy in the figure skating event at the previous Winter Games.

Peace

The DoveA Song of Peace

Protocol, 6m
40 performers
Direction and choreography: Ivan Manzoni
Segment coordinator: Vichi Lombardo
Original music: composed, arranged and orchestrated by Michele Centonze, in collaboration with Stefano Nanni

Twenty-eight acrobats climbed on a net set up on the main stage and executed their choreographed manoeuvres, spinning and flipping to the music. At the end of the routine they all came together and formed the shape of a dove, the symbol of peace, to a roaring cheer from the crowd.

Yoko Ono, dressed in white like many of the people in the ceremony (the spectators were provided with, and most wore, a white poncho, symbolizing the snow which makes the Winter Olympics possible (and which was rarely seen in the previous years in Piedmont)), then entered and read a free verse poem from a prepared script calling for peace in the world. She called for "taking action" to spread peace. Ono's poem served as an introduction to a rendition of her late husband John Lennon's Imagine by Peter Gabriel.

Light the Passion

Arrival of the FlameLighting of the CauldronThe Olympic System

Protocol, 6m 20s
Choreography: Doug Jack
Cauldron and torch design: Pininfarina
Original music: "Olimpia", composed, arranged and orchestrated by Michele Centonze

The Olympic Torch entered the stadium in the hand of Alberto Tomba, who then passed the flame to the hands of the 1994 men's Italian cross-country skiing relay team (Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Maurilio De Zolt, and Silvio Fauner). The flame was then passed to Piero Gros, then Deborah Compagnoni before the Olympic Flame was lit by former Italian cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo. Belmondo paused to show the torch to the cheering crowd one last time before placing it on the arched lighting apparatus. The flame initiated a series of fireworks before lighting the top of the 57-meter high Olympic Flame, the highest in the history of the Olympic Winter Games.

The cauldron lighting was also the first in recent memory to be lit indirectly, that is, the flame did not directly touch or travel to (such as the arrow lighting at the 1992 Summer Olympics) the cauldron itself. The precise timing of the pyrotechnics was obviously computer timed from the precise moment the flame touched the center frame in the center of the stadium. Because of the elaborate fireworks, it is highly unlikely the flame travelled to all the charges directly. However, it is possible that the cauldron was lit from a backup flame inside, or that an electronic signal from Belmondo's apparatus to the cauldron served as the "flame" (much like the 1976 Summer Olympics where a satellite signal carried the "flame" from Greece to Canada, though not at the opening ceremony).

Fortissimo

Allegro with Fire

Artistic, 7min
Direction: Marco Balich
Chandelier design: Jacopo Foggini
Pyrotechnical effects: Christophe Berthonneau
Segment coordinator: Vichi Lombardo

After the largest curtain yet to be built revealed him on the stage, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, wearing a black cape embroidered with silver Olympic rings, ended the ceremony by singing Giacomo Puccini's well-known aria Nessun Dorma from the opera Turandot, which ends with the victorious line "At dawn, I shall win!" Pavarotti's performance caused NBC Olympic commentator Brian Williams to proclaim "And the master brings the house down." Indeed, the tenor's performance received the longest and loudest ovation of the opening ceremony from the international crowd. This would prove to be Pavarotti's final public performance of his signature song.

Security measures

Security was present at the Opening Ceremony as has become the norm for the Olympics. Organizers stepped up the security measures in connection with the contemporary Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and they insisted that the Olympic Games would be safe.^[4]

Dignitaries and other officials in attendance

Aside from celebrities participating in the ceremonies and members of the International Olympic Committee, the following dignitaries and officials associated with the Olympic movement were in attendance.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Organizer of the 2004 Summer Olympics
Cherie Blair, Wife of then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Laura Bush, then-First Lady of the United States, and her daughter Barbara
Harald V, King of Norway and Queen Sonja
Horst Köhler, President of Germany
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel prize winning physiologist and Italian senator-for-life
Luca di Montezemolo, President and CEO of Ferrari and chairman of FIAT
Mitt Romney, Organizer of the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Governor of Massachusetts
Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia, host Canadian province of the 2010 Winter Olympics

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was absent primarily due his relative unpopularity with the people of Italy.

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External Links

[https://library.olympic.org/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/20621/media-guide-cerimonia-di-apertura-xx-giochi-olimpici-invernali-torino-2006-10-febbraio-2006-opening-?_lg=en-GB Turin 2006 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Media Guide (as found on the Olympic Library)]

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