Italy: RAI announces Amadeus as Sanremo 2022 host & artistic director along with the dates

Italy: RAI announces Amadeus as Sanremo 2022 host & artistic director along with the dates
Thursday, 05 August 2021

  • The Italian national broadcaster, RAI, has announced that Amadeus will be the host and artistic director of Sanremo Festival 2022 which will run from February 1 to 5, 2022. 

    The host broadcaster of Eurovision 2022 is moving on with its overload schedule for the coming months and has confirmed the host and dates of next year's Sanremo Festival , Italy national selection format for Eurovision. 

    The Italian iconic song festival will be presented for a third consecutive year by Amadeus who will will be the event's artistic Director also.  Amadeus had replaced back in 2020 the previous artistic leader,  Claudio Baglioni. The 2022 show will unfold on our screens from February 1 to February 5, 2022. 

    While in the previous editions the Sicilian conductor was accompanied on stage by the showman Rosario Fiorello it is difficult to hypothesize the presence of Fiorello again this yea. However, taking in mind the friendship between the two presenters it is likely that we see Fiorello on the Sanremo stage again next March. 

    Regarding the next edition taling to TG1 the conductor announced that he is working and does not yet know if it will be a Sanremo like past editions or if there will be any new changeds introduced in 2022. 

     

    Italy in Eurovision 

    Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 45 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 seven times of the last eight contests (2011–2019), 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.Last year 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. 

    This year the rock band Maneskin triumped in Sanremo and went on representing the country at Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam with their song 'Zitti e Buoni'. The rock band won the contest with 524 points in total and since then have been dominating the charts and streaming platforms worldwide. 

     

    News source: Eurofestivalnews.com

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