Italy: RAI reveals the Sanremo 2022 stage

Italy: RAI reveals the Sanremo 2022 stage
Saturday, 22 January 2022

  • The Italian national broadcaster, RAI, has revealed the stage of the 2022 edition of Festival di Sanremo.

    The organisers of Sanremo festival are in full steam making the final preparations of the iconic music competition that attracts million of viewers each year and is the format used to determine the country's Eurovision representative. 

    With the dates approaching RAI went on unveiling the stage of the upcoming Sanremo Festival which is set to kick off on February 1 and will unwind over five nights. 

    The stage for the 72nd edition of Sanremo Festival  has been designed by Gaetano and Maria Chiara Castelli. The two of them are no strangers  to the festival as Gaetano has contributed in the stage design 20 times while Castelli is behind it for the eighth time. 

    They explain about the stage design: 

    “When we met Amadeus in August - they recall - he asked us to maintain the scale and position of the orchestra, with the appropriate distances, but to imagine something different, a design between past and future. Nothing vintage, however: rather, as proposed by Amadeus, a 'restyling' of the classic. So we were inspired by the more 'traditional' scenographies starting from the rediscovery of the white color, with three-dimensional perforated materials, and we revisited an element like the curtain, making it super light and transparent, in front of the proscenium. 

    We have also reduced the square meters of LED walls in favor of stage construction and lighting. As for technology, it is not completely eliminated, but will make its appearance in three large ellipses of six and nine meters, all covered with lights and motorized, able to offer director Stefano Vicario and director of photography Mario Catapano great versatility. scenery and almost infinite possibilities of movement ".

     

    The 72nd edition of Sanremo

    Sanremo 2022 will kick off on February 1 and will unfold up to February 5 at the Teatro Ariston. The show will be conducted by Amadeus for a third successive year with five nationally and internally acclaimed acts will accompany his on the stage at Teatron Ariston next month. 

    Twenty-four artists will compete in the next edition of Sanremo with twenty-four unpublished songs and a renewed voting mechanism with three independent juries for accredited journalists in the first two evenings (print, Radio and TV, Web) and the debut of the “Demoscopic 1000” jury, that will determine along with televoting the final outcome. 

    Out of the 25 contestants, 22 acts have been invited by the artistic director, Amadeus, whilst the last 3 will come out of the Sanremo Giovani festival. From Tuesday 1 February live on Rai1, RaiPlay and Radio2 - the festival will unfold without any eliminations reaching the final night on February 5, during which the winner will be delcared. 


    In addition, the special evening of the Covers returns on Friday 4 February, during which the artists will perform - alone or with a guest agreed with Rai and with the Artistic Direction - a piece that can be taken not only from the Italian repertoire, but also from the international one of the 60 ', 70' or 80 '.

    The acts to take part in the upcoming edition of Sanremo festival are : 

    • Emma – Ogni volta è così
    • Massimo Ranieri – Lettera al di là del mare
    • Sangiovanni – Farfalle
    • Iva Zanicchi – Voglio amarti
    • Achille Lauro – Domenica
    • Aka 7even – Perfetta così
    • Michele Bravi – Inverno dei fiori
    • Gianni Morandi – Apri tutte le porte
    • Ana Mena – Duecentomila ore
    • Elisa – O forse sei tu
    • Rkomi – Insuperabile
    • Ditonellapiaga & Rettore – Chimica
    • Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi
    • Giusy Ferreri – Miele
    • Giovanni Truppi – Tuo padre, mia madre, Lucia
    • Fabrizio Moro – Sei tu
    • Highsnob & Hu – Abbi cura di te
    • Irama – Ovunque sarai
    • La rappresentante di lista – Ciao ciao
    • Noemi – Ti amo non lo so dire
    • Dargen D’Amico – Dove si balla
    • Le Vibrazioni – Tantissimo
    • Yuman – Ora e qui
    • Tananai – Sesso occasionale
    • Matteo Romano – Virale

     

    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.

    This 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. 

     

    News Source/image :rai.it