Tonight: Sanremo Festival 2022 begins with the first evening's show

Tonight: Sanremo Festival 2022 begins with the first evening's show
Tuesday, 01 February 2022

  • The 72nd edition of the Sanremo Festival is set to kick off tonight with the first evening's show taking place in Teatro Ariston. 

    Italy's search for the successors of Maneskin at Eurovision on home soil begins tonight with the first show of Festival di Sanremo. 

    Twenty-five artists will compete in the 72nd edition of Sanremo with twenty-four unpublished songs and a renewed voting mechanism with three independent juries for accredited journalists in the first two evenings (print, Radio and TV, Web) and the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 have been invited by the artistic director, Amadeus, whilst the last 3 have came 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 '.

    Sanemo Festival 2022 is set to unfold over five nights from February 1 to February 5, 2022. For each show Amadeus will have on his side one more act to co-host the show. Tonight he will he conducting the show alongside with Italian actress Ornella Muti.

    This evening the first set of 12 acts will take the stage to perform their entries. Namely these are:

    • Achille Lauro – Domenica
    • Ana Mena – Duecentomila ore
    • Dargen D’Amico – Dove si balla
    • Gianni Morandi – Apri tutte le porte
    • Giusy Ferreri – Miele
    • La Rappresentante di Lista – Ciao ciao
    • Mahmood e Blanco – Brividi
    • Massimo Ranieri – Lettera di là dal mare
    • Michele Bravi – Inverno dei fiori
    • Noemi – Ti amo non lo so dire
    • Rkomi – Insuperabile
    • Yuman – Ora e qui

    First evening's voting process

    According to the new voting system, during the first two evenings the results will be influenced by the three bodies, Jury of the Press Room & TV, Radio and Web jury with the first two having a 33,3% contribution to the result and the Radio and Web also a  33,3% share. After the vote, a ranking of the 12 songs / artists performed in each of the two evenings will be drawn up.

    Additionally,  Eurovision 2021 winners and last year’s winners of the Sanremo Måneskin will appear on this first night, while the show will also feature  Fiorello, Meduza, Matteo Berrettini and Raoul Bova with Nino Frassica.

     

    How to Watch

    The first night of Sanremo festival is set to hit the screen at 20:40 CET and you can watch it either on RAI 1 or RaiPlay