The Sanremo Music Festival 2023 ( it, 73º Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo 2023) is the upcoming 73rd edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show will be held between 7 and 11 February 2023, and will be presented for the fourth time in a row by Amadeus, who also serves as the artistic director for the competition, with Gianni Morandi co-hosting. Festival di Sanremo 16 febbraio 2013

Format

The 2023 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival will take place at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo,

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, organized by the Italian public broadcaster RAI. The artistic director and the presenter for the competition will be Amadeus, for the fourth consecutive year.

Presenters

On 24 March 2022, one month after the final of the 2022 edition, RAI officially confirmed Amadeus as the presenter of the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. Together with Amadeus, Gianni Morandi will serve as co-host in all five nights of the festival. Alongside Amadeus and Morandi, four co-hosts will alternate during the five evenings: Chiara Ferragni (first night and final), (second night), Paola Egonu (third night) and

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Selections

''Sanremo Giovani 2022''

For the second time in a row, the Newcomers' section will not be included in the Festival, but a similar selection will be held to decree the six places reserved in the Big Artist section. The artists competing in the new format were selected through two separate contests: Standard section and ''Area Sanremo''.

Standard selection

On 26 October 2022, the RAI commission for Sanremo Music Festival 2022 announced a list of 714 acts, but only 43 artists coming from all Italian regions – excluding Basilicata and Valle d'Aosta – and from abroad were selected in the first phase. On 5 November 2022, the RAI commission announced the eight finalists. * Gianmaria – "" * Giuse the Lizia – "" * Maninni – "" * Mida – "" * Olly – "" * Sethu – "" * Shari – "" * Will – ""

Area Sanremo

After the auditions, a RAI commission – composed by Amadeus, Federica Lentini, Massimo Martelli and Leonardo de Amicis – identified 4 finalists for the competition among the 549 acts: * Colla Zio – "" * Fiat 131 – "" * Noor – "" * Romeo & Drill – ""

Final

On 16 December 2022, the twelve finalists performed their songs on ''Sanremo Giovani'' ''2022'', broadcast on

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and presented by Amadeus. Gianmaria, Will, Olly, Colla Zio, Shari and Sethu will participate in Sanremo 2023 with a new entry.

Big Artists

For the second year in a row, the traditional Big Artists section of the contest will be merged with the Newcomers' section, and will see the participation of 28 artists, 22 being selected among established artists and 6 qualifying from ''Sanremo Giovani''. The former 22, selected from over 300 submissions received, were revealed on 4 December 2022, and also attended the night of ''Sanremo Giovani'' on 16 December, where their competing songs' titles were also made known.

Competing entries

Shows

First night

The first fourteen competing artists each perform their song.

Second night

The remaining fourteen artists each perform their song

Third night

All of the twenty-eight artists perform their songs once again.

Fourth night

The artists each performed a cover of a song from the

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, '80s, '90s, or '00s, duetting with a guest performer.

Fifth night - Final

All of the competing artists perform their songs again, with the top five moving on to the final round of voting.

Special guests

The special guests of Sanremo Music Festival 2023: *singers / musicians:

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, Gemelli di Guidonia, Gino Paoli, Guè,

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, Mahmood, Måneskin, Massimo Ranieri, Nek,

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, Peppino di Capri, Piero Pelù, Pooh, Salmo, Sangiovanni,

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, Tom Morello *actors / comedians / directors / models: Alessandro Siani, Alessia Marcuzzi, , , Elena Sofia Ricci, , Fiorello, Francesco Arca, Luisa Ranieri, Mariasole Pollio, Mario Di Leva, Rocío Muñoz Morales, Roberto Benigni, cast of ' (, Carolina Crescentini, Massimiliano Caiazzo, Matteo Paolillo, Nicolas Maupas, ) *sports people: Francesca Lollobrigida *other persons or notable figures: National Association , Pegah Moshir Pour, Sergio and

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(via written text)

Broadcast and ratings

Local broadcast

and Rai Radio 2 will bring the official broadcasts of the festival in Italy. The five evenings will be also streamed online via the broadcaster's official website RaiPlay, which made it available in all member countries of the

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, since the festival is broadcast on the Eurovision network.

Ratings

Notes

References

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