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Italy: Sanremo 2025 artists announcement on December 1st

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The artists participating in Sanremo 2025, who will compete for the Golden Lion and the chance to represent Italy in Basel at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, will be announced a day earlier than initially planned, on December 1st.

Last-Minute Changes for Sanremo 2025

The new artistic director and host of Sanremo has revealed some minor changes. Initially, the artists’ announcement for Sanremo 2025 was scheduled for December 2nd, but it has been moved up to December 1st. The announcement will take place at 13:30 cet.

Although it was originally announced that 24 artists would compete in Sanremo 2025, Carlo Conti has decided to increase this number. Reports suggest the final count will be 26 artists.

The most significant and intriguing change involves the duets night, where contestants will now have the opportunity to collaborate with one another.

For the final night of Sanremo 2025, Carlo Conti will be joined by Alessandro Cattelan, one of the hosts of Eurovision 2022, which was held in Turin.

Festival Schedule

First Night: All 24 artists will present their competing songs. The top five of the evening (announced in random order) will be revealed.
Second Night: 12 artists will perform their entries, and the top five of this group will be announced in random order.
Third Night: The remaining 12 artists will perform, with another top five revealed, also in random order.
Fourth Night: Covers’ Night will feature duets, though the results from this semi-final phase will not count toward the final outcome.
Final Night: All 24 artists will compete in the grand final. The top five overall from the semi-finals will advance to the superfinal, where the winner will be determined through a combination of jury and public voting.

Italy’s Eurovision 2025 Representation

Artists aiming to represent Italy at Eurovision 2025 must submit an expression of interest form by the start of the final night on February 15th.

If the winner of the festival has already signed the form, they will automatically represent Italy. If they choose not to participate, the festival’s organizing committee will select another artist based on its criteria.

Rescheduled Festival Dates

Originally scheduled for February 4–8, the festival has been postponed by a week. It will now take place from February 11 to February 15 in the small Ligurian town of Sanremo.

The winner of the 2024 festival was newcomer Angelina Mango with the song “La Noia”, who represented Italy at Eurovision 2024, finishing seventh in the Grand Final.

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Italy: The participants of Festival di Sanremo 2025 will be announced on December 2!

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Festival di Sanremo, Italy’s most prestigious music festival, is only a few months away. During February, the entire Italian peninsula will be following all the events in the small Ligurian city to see who wins the Golden Lion and represents Italy in the 69th Eurovision Song Contest.

Given the festival’s importance to the Italian music scene, Carlo Conti, the newly appointed Director, is working tirelessly to finalize the lineup of twenty-four artists who will compete in Sanremo 2025.

Hence, it was revealed today that the participants in the 75th edition of the Festival di Sanremo will be revealed during RAI’s newscast on December 2nd.

Although the number of established artists competing in Sanremo is still unknown, Carlo Conti claims that they will appear in the Sanremo Giovanni final.

Sanremo 2025 – the schedule

First Evening: 24 artists perform their competing song (top five is revealed in a random order)

Second Evening: 12 artists perform their song (top five revealed in random order)

Third Evening: 12 artists perform their song (top five revealed in random order)

Fourth Evening: Covers’ Night, the artists will perform in a duet. The results of this semifinal will NOT be included in the main competition

Final: 24 artists will perform their competing song. The top five in the combined rankings of all semifinals advances in the Superfinal and gets to perform again. Juries and televote will vote again to decide the winner.

Italian representation in Eurovision 2025

If any of the 24 competitors (along with their respective record labels) want to compete in Eurovision 2025, they must complete a special form by the beginning of the festival’s final night on Saturday, February 15.

If the Sanremo 2025 winner has previously signed the interest form, he will be automatically considered Italy’s representative in the Eurovision 2025. Should he decide not to compete in Eurovision 2025, the festival’s organizing committee will select an artist from among those who have signed the interest form based on its own standards, which may or may not include the final score ranking.

Although originally scheduled from February 4 to February 8, eventually the festival was postponed, a week later. Therefore, it will take place from February 11 to February 15 in the small Ligurian town.

The winner of Sanremo’s Music Festival in 2024 was the debutant Angelina Mango with her song “La Noia“, who ultimately gained the right to represent Italy in Eurovision 2024, placing seventh in the Grand Final.

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Italy: Rumored artists for Sanremo 2025!

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The most prestigious music festival in Italy, Sanremo Music Festival, is four and a half months away. Festival di Sanremo also serves as the nation’s selection method for the Eurovision Song Contest.

After Amadeus, whose impact on the Festival has surely left a mark, Carlo Conti returns to lead the 75th edition of Sanremo’s Music Festival as artistic director. It’s rumored that Conti is attempting to persuade prominent figures in the Italian music industry to take part, so his task will not be simple.

Thus, considering the labels that artists are in, the initial rumors about Sanremo 2025 participants suggest the following singers:

  • TIZIANO FERRO
  • ELODIE
  • BLANCO
  • TANANAI
  • EMMA
  • MATTEO BOCELLI
  • GAIA
  • OLLY
  • TOMMASO PARADISO
  • BRESH
  • SUBSONICA
  • LA RAPPRESENTANTE DI LISTA
  • ALBANO & ROMINA
  • ACHILLE LAURO
  • IRAMA
  • COMA_COSE
  • THE KOLORS
  • SARAH TOSCANO
  • PETIT
  • MADAME
  • ALFA
  • FRANCESCO GABBANI
  • VIRGINIO
  • BENJI & FEDE

Not just their fame but also the songs these performers can bring to Sanremo are important factors for Conti. But there’s still a long time to go before the formal announcements are made.

Sanremo 2025 – the schedule

First Evening: 24 artists perform their competing song (top five is revealed in a random order)

Second Evening: 12 artists perform their song (top five revealed in random order)

Third Evening: 12 artists perform their song (top five revealed in random order)

Fourth Evening: Covers’ Night, the artists will perform in a duet. The results of this semifinal will NOT be included in the main competition

Final: 24 artists will perform their competing song. The top five in the combined rankings of all semifinals advances in the Superfinal and gets to perform again. Juries and televote will vote again to decide the winner.

Italian representation in Eurovision 2025

If any of the 24 competitors (along with their respective record labels) want to compete in Eurovision 2025, they must complete a special form by the beginning of the festival’s final night on Saturday, February 15.

If the Sanremo 2025 winner has previously signed the interest form, he will be automatically considered Italy’s representative in the Eurovision 2025. Should he decide not to compete in Eurovision 2025, the festival’s organizing committee will select an artist from among those who have signed the interest form based on its own standards, which may or may not include the final score ranking.

Although originally scheduled from February 4 to February 8, eventually the festival was postponed, a week later. Therefore, it will take place from February 11 to February 15 in the small Ligurian town.

The winner of Sanremo’s Music Festival in 2024 was the debutant Angelina Mango with her song “La Noia“, who ultimately gained the right to represent Italy in Eurovision 2024, placing seventh in the Grand Final.

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Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2025 is postponed!

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About a month ago, the Italian public broadcaster, announced that the 75th Festival di Sanremo will take place a week earlier than usual, from the 4th to the 8th of February at the Teatro Ariston. However, the latest announcement by the organizers comes to postpone the festival, a week later! Read more

Italy: Sanremo 2025 will take place from 4 to 8 February

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Sanremo 2025 will take place one week earlier than usual. The 75th Festival, which will take place at the Teatro Ariston form 4 to 8 February, will most likely determine the artist who will represent Italy in Switzerland.

Carlo Conti is continuing his preparations for Sanremo 2025. After he’s already made public the first major changes, we now know the dates:  from February 4 to 8, the modest town of Liguria will be the focus of all musical attention in Europe.

There are 24 songs vying for the Golden Lion, which is six fewer than the 30 entries in the competition this year.

More specifically:

  • First night: 24 artists will perform their songs. The top five will be announced in random order.
  • Second night: 12 artists will perform their songs for the second time. The top five will be announced in random order.
  • Third night: The remaining 12 artists will perform their contest songs for the second time. The top five will be announced in random order.
  • Fourth night: the competing artists will perform a duet/cover of an already existing song. There will be a winner, but this night’s results will not add up to the final results.
  • Fifth night: 24 artists will perform their songs. The top five performers from the combined rankings of all previous nights will qualify for the superfinal. The audience and judges will vote to determine the winner after they perform their song a second time.

Italy has not confirmed its participation in Eurovision 2025, nor if the Sanremo winner will represent the country in Switzerland.

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Italy: Sanremo 2025 will be held with fewer songs and without the Nuove Proposte winner!

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Important announcements were made by Carlo Conti, the new artistic director and host of Sanremo. It is now a given that we will have fewer songs competing, while the winner of Nuove Proposte will not participate in the main category of the festival.

In his new interview, Carlo Conti confirmed a lot of what had been circulated recently as rumours. The new artistic director of the festival is already working on the regulations of Sanremo 2025, while he will then deal with the search for songs for Nuove Proposte and then for the big category of the festival.

The Nuove Proposte will be a separate contest, but unlike previous years, its winner will not have the right to participate in the big category of Sanremo 2025.

Carlo Conti indeed aims to reduce the duration of Sanremo 2025 and for this purpose the competition process will include fewer songs. Despite rumors that the evenings of Sanremo 2025 will end at 12 midnight, Conti says that this is not possible, but he aims to keep it no longer than 1 midnight. Finally, what has also been confirmed is the return of Dopo Festival.

The new presenter and artistic director of the next two editions of Sanremo, notes that his desire is for the songs to be at the center and all the rest to be secondary elements that frame a TV show. The people who will surround him is an issue that will concern him after finding the songs in September.

This will be the 75th edition of the Sanremo Festival, through which Italy will once again choose the artist that will represent it at Eurovision 2025.

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Italy: Carlo Conti plans to end the shows of Sanremo 2025 at midnight!

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The new artistic director and host of the Sanremo festival Carlo Conti, has already started preparations for its upcoming edition. According to what the Italian media reports, Carlo Conti intends to drastically reduce the duration of Sanremo’s nights, while his intentions include the reinstatement of the Dopo Festival, a live show immediately after the end of Sanemo’s broadcast each night.

His role has been taken seriously by Carlo Conti, who returns to the position of artistic director and host, after eight years. Carlo Conti is one of the favorite faces of RAI, since all these years he presented favorite shows of the Italian public television, with great success and viewership.

So, according to what Dagospia reports, Carlo Conti is already working on the regulations for Sanremo 2025. Once they are ready, he will of course start the search for songs, both through a public call and direct discussions with artists and record labels.

Carlo Conti will attempt to drastically reduce the duration of the Sanremo 2025 broadcast, as he aims for it to finish at midnight. We say that he will attempt, since we have heard this several times in the past, but no one has ever been able to achieve it.

Another of his intentions for Sanremo 2025 is to bring back the Dopo Festival, a live show that was broadcast immediately after the end of each race night and essentially included interviews, reports and everything that the cameras did not show. The rumored presenter of the Dope Festival is Alessandro Cattelan, who was also one of the presenters of Eurovision 2022.

The winner of Sanremo in recent years has the option, if he wishes, to represent Italy in the Eurovision contest. Angelina Mango represented Italy at Eurovision 2024, with the song La Noia, which was also the winning song of Sanremo 2024. In Malmö, she finished seventh, with 268 points.

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Source: Dagospia

Sanremo 2025: Carlo Conti Announced as Host and Artistic Director

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The eagerly awaited announcement has finally arrived: Carlo Conti will be the host and artistic director of Sanremo 2025 and 2026. This decision follows the five successful editions led by Amadeus.

The announcement was made during the Tg1 broadcast at 8 AM on Wednesday, May 22. Carlo Conti, who has signed a two-year contract, will be returning for his fourth and fifth editions after previously hosting three consecutive editions from 2015 to 2017.

Here are Carlo Conti’s first statements:

“I Conti tornano! After seven years, I will try to build on the work done by Baglioni and Amadeus. The first person to message me was Fiorello. I am grateful for all the affection from the people at Rai. Hosting Sanremo for the next two years, 2025 and 2026, will be a wonderful way to celebrate my 40 years at Rai. From today, I will start thinking about the regulations, then I will begin listening to the songs and start planning the team on stage. I don’t think Pieraccioni and Panariello will be regulars, as I always try to mix up the guests.”

The official Rai statement reads:

“A unanimous decision by the company’s top executives, CEO Roberto Sergio and General Director Giampaolo Rossi in agreement with Prime Time Entertainment Director Marcello Ciannamea. For the next two years, Conti will steer the most important national multimedia event organized by Rai and the Municipality of Sanremo. For Conti, this is not just a return to the Festival but a new challenge aimed at continuing to promote and highlight new trends, as he did in his successful editions from 2015 to 2017, which launched artists who are now key figures in Italian music. The Artistic Director is already at work planning a Festival full of surprises and novelties.”

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Italy: Will Elettra Lamborghini be the next host of Sanremo and what changes could she bring to the festival?

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Elettra Lamborghini, one of the biggest superstars of Italy, was invited in the radio show Un giorno da pecora and revealed that she will apply for the role of the host of the next edition of Sanremo Festival, after the withdrawal of Amadeus.

Italy: Amadeus won’t host Sanremo 2025| These are the candidates for hosting the Festival!

The granddaughter of Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the talian manufacturer of luxury sports cars Lamborghini, announced that she would like to return to the stage of Sanremo not only as a performer but also as a host. In fact, she would like to host the festival, together with Alessandro Cattelan, one of the names considered as successors of Amadeus, but also familiar to fans, as he was one of the hosts of Eurovision 2022, in Turin, Italy.

As for the changes she would make at the Festival, as a hypothetical new artistic director, Elettra, on the occasion of this year’s results and the uproar created, with the dominance of Geolier, in televoting, considers that the current voting system should be reviewed, while she wishes better results, for songs that will enter the charts in the following weeks, after the festival.

Finally, on the occasion of the political statements on the stage of Sanremo, as happened in the case of Ghali, she believes that space should be given mainly to music.

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Italy: Amadeus won’t host Sanremo 2025| These are the candidates for hosting the Festival!

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We know for quite a while now, that Sanremo 2024, was going to be the last festival that the successful Amadeus would host. Now, after Angelina Mango’s win, the lights in Teatro Ariston went down, and RAI is searching for the new presenter of the Italian music show.

In their first joint interview in a popular Italian magazine, the italian presenter and his wife Giovanna Civitillo, talked about the withdrawal of Amadeus from the festival:

“After five years between Milan and Rome I want to devote myself to my wife and children, they fill up my life and they complete me. Off stage I’m like the sad clown, they’re my glass half full.”

H Giovanna Civitillo added that he is a capable, generous and honest man.

As of Festival di Sanremo 2025, there are already a few names that RAI is targeting. After both Carlo Conti (host and artistic director of the festival from 2015 until 2017) and Paolo Bonolis, (host of the 2005 festival) declined that offer, the public broadcaster has some other names in mind. These are Alessandro Cattelan, host of Eurovision 2022, Antonella Clerici (participant in Sanremo 2005, 2010) but also Alessia Marcuzzi.

The Festival di Sanremo 2024 was completed a few days ago, with Angelina Mango, being the first woman winning the festival after ten years. In Eurovision, Italy will take part directly in the Grand Final, as part of the BIG 5 group, in May 11:

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Source: Chi Magazine