Hello everyone! Here you’ll find this year’s Sanremo’s stuff and news (I’ll be uploading this post through all the week). The Festival will start on tuesday February 7th at 8:30 pm (it’ll probably have a 5 minutes “anteprima = preview” every night), and end on saturday February 11th, when the final will be broadcasted.
/ Official website / you can find loads of videos and interviews here + the latest news. You can already find the presentation videos of the songs made by the artists.
Rai’s website dedicated section (here) | youtube playlist
TikTok official channel: @/sanremorai
Also this year we’ll have the PrimaFestival, the small show broadcasted on Rai1 at around 8:30 p.m. (January 31st - February 7th). The host are Andrea Delogu (actress), gli Autogol (Youtube/Actors’ group of comedians and radio hosts) and Jody Cecchetto (gamer/speaker).
I’m not sure also if or where the usual Dopofestival, with the analysis of the show at the end of each night, will be broadcasted (here you can find past years' L’Altro Festival)
CasaSanremo- A website about Sanremo and all the artists who will take part, with more infos and interviews (also Italian places and food specialties will be shown). Follow them also on their Social Media Channels, usually they make live video/interviews/shows on FB for example.
On Sorrisi&Canzoni you will find also other infos about Sanremo and every lyrics’s explanation (ofc ask me if you need a translation)
The # on this blog is #sanremo 2023, #sanremo 23, #sanremo 73, you can black any of these (the first one in particular) if you want.
Raiuno -> just click on the first video on the left, or here, to open the Raiuno streaming immediately (I added the whole Rai channels things in case you had troubles connecting directly and wanted to try from there) I’m not sure you have to log in to watch a live, but it’s through just an email or FB btw. You can use an Italian VPN line if the website blocked in your country.
FESTIVAL LIS - songs and whole exhibition explained in signs language
I’ll try to write down some more infos/links through the week.
–> The past two year the link's geoblock had been removed, not sure yet how it'll be this year.
Hosts & Guests + Other Stuff
This years’ host will still be Amadeus (who choose the songs taking part into this Sanremo), a TV and radio host. He will be accompanied by Gianni Morandi (singer) who will co-host with him all the evenings; as in the past 3 years, they'll be accompanied also by a different co-host woman each night: Chiara Ferragni (online business woman; first and last night); Francesca Fagnani (journalist, tv host; second night); Paola Egonu (volleyball player, model; third night); Chiara Francini (actress, tv host, writer; fourth night).
Some of the one-night guests during the week will be: Mahmood and Blanco, i Pooh, Massimo Ranieri, Al Bano, Gianni Morandi, Black Eyed Peas, Maneskin... This year too there will be singers perfoming on a boat and in live stream with the Sanremo stage: Salmo, Fedez (husband of Chiara Ferragni), Takagi & Ketra e Guè. In the square outside the Theater, there will be the exhibitions of Piero Pelù, Francesco Renga and Nek, Achille Lauro, Annalisa and La Rappresentante di Lista (these too will be broadcasted on Sanremo).
There will be 28 singers in the ARTISTI (artists) section. It will be the only section, as last year. 22 artists were chosen by Amadeus, while the other 6 are the winners of Sanremo Giovani (held in December 2022). The winner of the competition will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest: if he/she/they won’t accept, the choice will be another artist, usually the 2nd classified or the next (the first one accepting).
On the 4th night, there will be the usual “covers” night.
Day 1 - co-hosts: Gianni Morandi, Chiara Ferragni.
Prob. guests: Mahmood and Blanco, i Pooh
We’ll listen to 14 songs (in order of performance:).
We have a first rank of the 14 artists who performed tonight:
Day 2 - co-hosts: Gianni Morandi, Francesca Fagnani.
Prob. guests: Black Eyed Peas, Gianni Morandi, Massimo Ranieri, Al Bano
The remaining 14 artisti (in order of performance: ) will perform tonight.
We’ll have another rank of the 14 artists who performed tonight:
Complete rank after the first 2 nights (mix of votes):
Day 3 - co-hosts: Gianni Morandi, Paola Egonu.
Prob. guests: Maneskin
All the 28 ARTISTI will perform again their entry to the contest (in order of appearance: ).
Classification after tonight:
Day 4 - co-hosts: Gianni Morandi, Chiara Francini
Prob. guests:
The 28 artists will present the songs’ covers, each of them will perform together with a guest.
We’ll also have a new rank.
Day 5 - co-hosts: Gianni Morandi, Chiara Ferragni
Prob. guests:
All the 28 artisti will perform again their songs (in order of appearance: ) and after midnight (prob. more like 1.15/30 am.) we’ll know the competition’s first 3 classified and all the special awards winners. The first 5 classified will perform again and get new votes to decide the final standings. The winner will go to the ESC2023 (if there will be).
will take part at the ESC 2023!
Other Awards:
Anna Oxa - "Sali (Canto dell'anima)"
Articolo 31 - "Un bel viaggio"
Colapesce Dimartino - "Splash"
Gianluca Grignani - "Quando ti manca il fiato"
Giorgia - "Parole dette male"
I Cugini di Campagna - "Lettera 22"
Leo Gassmann - "Terzo cuore"
Madame - "Il bene nel male"
Mara Sattei - "Duemilaminuti"
Marco Mengoni - "Due vite"
Paola & Chiara - "Furore"
Rosa Chemical - "Made in Italy"
[all the lyrics can be found on the 2nd half bottom of this page]
(will edit with more updates, corrections and links as we get closer to the event)