Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2023 dates revealed

Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2023 dates revealed
Tuesday, 03 May 2022

  • The Italian national broadcaster, RAI , has confirmed the dates of the next edition of Sanremo di Festival in 2023. 

    RAI has announced that the Sanremo 2023 will be taking place next year from February 7 to February 11. This marks the 73th edition of the music festival that has been determining most of the Italian hopefuls for Eurovision. 

     

    Sanremo Giovani 2022

    In addition it has been confirmed that Sanremo Giovani will be taking place again with three of its acts securing a spot in the Sanremo 2023 line up. The Grand final show of Sanremo Giovani will be held on December 12, 2022. 

    Submission window will open on Thursday, May 12 at 18:00 CET and will close on October 12 the same time. Artists from 16 to 29 years old that have publised at least 2 song in the past and haven't taken part in Sanremo Area 2022, can submit their applications for participation. 

     

    Italy in Eurovision 

    Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 46 times since making its debut at the first contest in 1956.  After a 14-year absence from 1998 and on, the country returned to the contest in 2011. Italy has won the contest twice  in 1964 with Gigliola Cinquetti and her song “Non ho l’età”.  Italy’s second victory in the contest came in 1990 with Toto Cutugno and the song “Insieme: 1992”.

    Italy’s come back to the contest has proved to be very successful, the country having finished in the top ten in eight times of the last decade (2011–2021), with Raphael Gualazzi second in 2011, Nina Zilli ninth in 2012, Marco Mengoni seventh in 2013 and Il Volo third in 2015, Francesco Ghabbani 6th in Kiev. In 2018  the winners of Sanremo 2018 ,Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro, represented Italy in Eurovision in Lisbon with their song “Non mi avete fatto niente”. The Italian duo achieved an honorable 5th place in the Grand final with 308 points and a remarkable 3rd placing in the public voting.

    In 2019 , Mahmood, winner of Sanremo 2019 represented the country in Tel Aviv with his entry Soldi. The Italian representative kept the good results for Italy achieving a 2nd place in the Grand Final in Tel Aviv. In 2020 Diodato might have won the Sanremo festival with 'Fai Rumore' but unfortunately didn't have the chance to perform in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled de to the coronavirus pandemic.

    Last year the rock band Maneskin won Saremo 2021 and went on representing the nation on Rotterdam where they triumphed with their song 'Zitti e Buoni' bringing the 2022 contest to Italy. This year the duo Mahmood & Blanco are representing the host nation with their Sanremo winning song 'Brividi'. 

     

    News Source: Eurovoix

    Image: RAI

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Angelos D.

    Angelos D.

    Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.