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Italy In The Eurovision Song Contest 2024
Italy was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "", written by Angelina Mango, Dario Faini, and Francesca Calearo, and performed by Angelina Mango herself. The Italian participating broadcaster (RAI) selected its entry through the Sanremo Music Festival 2024. As a member of the " Big Five", Italy automatically qualified to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Background Prior to the 2024 contest, (RAI) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Italy forty-seven times since its first entry at the inaugural contest in . Since then, it has won the contest on three occasions: in with the song "" performed by Gigliola Cinquetti, in with "" by Toto Cutugno, and in with "" by Måneskin. It has withdrawn from the contest a number of times, with their most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. It made its return in , and its entry " Madness of Love", performed by Raphael Gualazzi, placed second—its highes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival 2024
The Sanremo Music Festival 2024 ( it, Festival di Sanremo 2024), officially the 74th Italian Song Festival (), is set to be the 74th edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show will be held between 6 and 10 February 2024, and will be presented for the fifth and final time in a row by Amadeus, who also serves as the artistic director for the competition. As has been the case since 2015, the winner of the festival will earn the right of first refusal to represent in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Format The 2024 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival will take place at the in Sanremo, Liguria, organised by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition will be Amadeus, for the fifth and final consecutive year. Presenters On 24 March 2022, one month after the final of the 2022 edition, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Due Vite
"" (; ) is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Marco Mengoni for his eighth studio album, (2023). It is the lead single and opening track on the album, released by Sony Music on 8 February 2023. The song was written by Mengoni with Davide Petrella and Davide Simonetta. Simonetta also produced the track together with E.D.D. The song was Mengoni's winning entry for the Sanremo Music Festival 2023, the 73rd edition of the Italian musical festival, which doubled as the selection of the Italian act for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. It finished in fourth place at the Eurovision final with 350 points. Prior to the contest, "" reached number one in Italy and San Marino. A bilingual French-Italian version of the song, titled "" ("The last song"), was released on 13 October 2023. Background and composition Mengoni spoke about the meaning of the song: Mengoni dwelt on the inspiration for the song, found in the figure of Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, explaining t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Repubblica
''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a leftist newspaper, it has since moderated to a milder centre-left political stance, and moved further to the centre after the appointment of Maurizio Molinari as editor. History Foundation ''la Repubblica'' was founded by Eugenio Scalfari, previously director of the weekly magazine ''L'Espresso''. The publisher Carlo Caracciolo and Mondadori had invested 2.3 billion lire (half each) and a break-even point was calculated at 150,000 copies. Scalfari invited a few trusted colleagues: Gianni Rocca, then Giorgio Bocca, Sandro Viola, Mario Pirani, Miriam Mafai, Barbara Spinelli, Natalia Aspesi and Giuseppe Turani. The cartoons were the prerogative of Giorgio Forattini until 1999. Early years The newspaper first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |