The 62nd Festiva della canzone italiana aka Sanremo will take place next week in Teatro Ariston. Five nights, two categories, international and national guests, a lot of "entertainment" and endless bla bla bla and in between 22 songs spread over some 15 hrs of show. In the end we will have the winner of the main category, Artisti, and the newcomers of Sanremosocial. And the Italian entry for the Eurovision song contest 2012 in Baku which is not necessarily neither of the winners. How does it all work?
Tuesday, February 14
All the 14 Artisti will present their songs and there's a voting by a demoscopic jury. Two songs will be kicked out to the second chance round.
All the 8 newcomers will be presented as well.
Wednesday, February 15
The remaining 12 Artisti will perform and again a demoscopic jury will drop two to the second chance round.
Four of the newcomers will sing against each other in two duels. For them there is a televote and the two winners will move on, the two losers go home.
Thursday, February 16
Viva l'Italia! The 14 Artisti will present an Italian classic song in duet with a foreign stars to celebrate the Italian music in the world. For this there is also a televote and the best performance will win an award.
The four Artisti that didn't make it to the final the previosu two nights will perform again and for them there is a televote. two most voted once are back in race and go to the final.
For the newcomers there is again two duels and after the televote the two winners will go to the final.
Friday, February 17
The 12 Artisti will sing again. there's a mixed voting by the orchestra in Teatro Ariston and televote. The Artisti will sing their songs with re-arranged versions with foreign stars. The ten most voted will move to the grand final on Saturday.
The four newcomers will perform and they have the same mixed voting with two Golden shares, by the Radio jury and the voters on Facebook. In the end the most voted will be crowned as the winner of Sanremo 2012 newcomers.
Saturday, February 18
The ten Artisti finalists will perform. There is a mixed voting by the orchestra and televote plus the Golden shares: the press present in press center. The three most voted ones go to the superfinal. They perform again and this time there is only the televote.
The newcomer's winner will also perform during the night.
There will be numerous stars, not only from music world to turn the music show into a talk show time to time, and of course endless jokes and advertising. But hey, Sanremo è Sanremo! I will do my best to keep you on track next week so stay tuned! Here are the Artisti and here are the newcomers.
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