Staging Sanremo
The artistic director (and co-presenter) of the annual Sanremo Music Festival Amadeus has shown fans what to expect when the event kicks off on...
20 December – Yes, I softly said yes
Our friends in Italy are an interesting case study. Their relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest seems more love/hate than most. And there's a...
RAI names most of Sanremo acts for 2023
The first 22 participants of the 73rd Festival di Sanremo have been announced, with a further acts will join them when the song titles...
Italy: Now in Glorious Technicolour!
Fiume di colori! Italy have given us a very colourful and Pop Art inspired backdrop which immediately puts me in mind of both Aven...
Forza Italia?
If one could give marks for looking disinterested through a song, then Chanel would take all 12 of them. I think that is her...
25 May – I love the traffic in the centre
Our friends in Italy have done fairly well since they can back from exile. Seven top 10 finishes in their last nine attempts, including...
Italy: Someone needs shut-eye
I got to see one of the three rehearsals this morning - and heard plenty of reports of the shambolic first run-through - which...
Italy – Rehearsals are for rehearsing
Old OnEurope would have dashed off a report of the first run through and told you that as the gospel truth.
The first run through...
15 April – Alive, alive, alive, alive, alive
All Eurovision eyes are increasingly focussing on the oddly anatomically shaped country that is Italy (we understand some riotous cavalcade of quality song takes...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 21 – Italy
If ever anybody tries to tell you that nobody does Eurovision at the peak of their careers, then I raise you Mahmood and Blanco....