“Mariah Carey’s teleprompter is killing me,” wrote Italian influencer Tommaso Zorzi after the American singer’s performance Friday evening in Milan during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Under the video he posted on Instagram, the men crying with laughter follow one another. “I found it strange that she sang it well,” comments a user.
Mariah Carey was present this Friday evening at the San Siro stadium in Milan to launch the winter games. Dressed in a dress by Italian designer Fausto Puglisi, the singer of the famous “All I Want For Christmas Is You” sang in Italian “Nel Blu, dipinto di Blu” by Domenico Modugno, well known under the name of its chorus “Volare”, before returning to her song “Nothing is impossible” (Nothing is impossible, in French).
Mariah Carey’s dream of singing in Italian came true
A performance praised by Italian Vogue for whom the American star “amazed the public” with “spectacular staging”. Other media, more teasing, lingered behind the scenes, notably showing the teleprompter that the diva never took her eyes off.
Instead of seeing sentences written in Italian scrolling, phonetic words appeared on the small screen. “Ai een-comb-een-chah-voh, voh-lah-reh, nell chay-lo een-fee-nee-toe”, we can read, according to the video broadcast by Tommaso Zorzi. A text that is difficult to read for Italians, but which allowed the English-speaking singer to deliver a performance that her audience could understand.
Il Post points out that Mariah Carey was widely applauded at the end of her performance and the American will remember it more than positively. “A dream come true to sing (in Italian!) at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics,” she wrote on Instagram after her performance. Thanks to everyone who made this possible, nothing is impossible! »
