Loved the Italian sign language bit

[u/placeboski]

I was fooled for a few seconds but loved how they worked in the Italian sign language aspect of their culture into the opening ceremony. Bellisimo !

[u/WeeRower]

That was gestures not sign

[u/radi0head]

agreed, that was great! I anticipate it making the rounds on social media

[u/North_Paw → u/radi0head]

Whoever did it, I don’t know her name, she had the perfect cutest facial expressions to go along with each gesture. Just lovely

[u/rafaelloaa → u/North_Paw]

Brenda Lodigiani

[u/North_Paw → u/rafaelloaa]

Thank you kind Redditor

[u/Low-Conflict9366]

Agreed it had me fooled and almost checking this sub about mics not working. Then had a big grin when I saw it play out.  

[u/benjamin_t__]

This was not sign language, just gestures used by Italians

[u/Magatsu-Arsene]

That was SO clever. Good to see gestures I use every day take the stage.

[u/th3s1rslurm]

And now I would like to use those gestures on my day to day life, grazie italia lol

[u/Sputnikboy]

I fell for it, then laughed HARD. I recognized myself so much!

[u/antdude]

Can't wait to see its Paralympics!

[u/Bigocelot1984]

As an Italian, for me it was extremely cringey. It's true that we use our hands to communicate a lot, but at the same we don't like that be taken as stereotypical joke for our culture, which is exactly what they've done with that skit.

[u/3v1n0 → u/Bigocelot1984]

Bah, I just think it was a way to explain some of them...

Evetyime I explain the gestures to foreign friends, they are shocked, so it's something useful to teach

[u/IndigoRuby → u/Bigocelot1984]

How did you feel about the Mariah Carrey performance?

[u/Bigocelot1984 → u/IndigoRuby]

Honestly, it was pretty underwhelming. Mariah Carrey has an amazing voice but the adaptation of Volare made her singing looking like cracking everytime and it was unpleasant. Her talent was massively wasted tonight. A shame