SANREMO 2016: WHAT AND WHEN AND HOW?

The 66th Sanremo festival runs for five night as usual. Here's a short summary what to expect each night. I will be following the festival closely but I suppose I won't be live blogging this time. I just want to sit back and enjoy the show and blog afterwards with the main things.

Prima serata - February 9

Ten of the 20 Big artits will perform for the first time.
Arisa, Morgan & Bluvertigo, Dear Jack, Caccamo & Iurato, Lorenzo Fragola,
Irene Fornaciari, Noemi, Rocco Hunt, Enrico Ruggeri, Stadio

Elton John, Maitre Gims and Laura Pausini are the guest stars with comics
Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo.

The voting of the 10 Big will be 50-50 televote-the journalists present in Press center

Seconda serata - February 10

The other ten of the 20 Big perform their songs for the first time.
Annalisa, Alessio Berbabei, Clementino, Dolcenera, Elio e Le Storie Tese,
Francesca Michielin, Neffa, Patty Pravo, Valerio Scanu, Zero Assoluto
The voting of the 10 Big will be 50-50 televote-Press center.

The first four of the 8 Newcomers will perform in two duels. The winners will move on to Thursday night's semifinal. The voting is 50-50 televote-Press center

Eros Ramazzotti is the guest star with actor/comic Nino Frassica.
And Ellie Goulding and Nicole Kidman

Terza serata - February 11

The other four of the Newcomers will perform in two duels. The winners will move on to Thursday's semifinal. The voting is 50-50 televote-Press center.

The 20 Big will perform covers of Italian classics and there will be voting 50-50 televote-Press center to award the best one. This has no effect on final result.

Pooh is the guest stars performing together with Riccardo Fogli, their original singer.

Guglielmo Scilla, actor in RAI fiction is also there. Also comic Leonardo Pieraccioni.

Quarta serata - February 12

The Newcomers final. Four songs in two duels, then the final duel and we have the winner.

The voting is mixed televote, expert jury and demoscopic jury.

The 20 Big will performs again and only 15 will qualify for tomorrow's final.
For the other 5 the 24h televote will be opened. One of them will join the final lineup.

The voting is mixed televote, expert jury and demoscopic jury (and then only televote for the wildcard)

Elisa is the guest star.

Serata finale - February 13

The song saved by the public will be announced and will join the final line up.
The 16 Big perform again and the voting starts from zero.
The top3 will face to superfinal, once again all votes zeroed.

Renato Zero is the guest star, along with actor Giuseppe Fiorello and Cristina D'Avena.

Also there are rumors of Hozier, Lost Frequences, J Balvin, Roberto Bolle, Enrico Brignano....

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