Eurovision 2012 – Good morning from sunny Baku! It’s semifinal 1 day but acts that are not involved are busy doing other things in the beautiful city of Baku. The Eurovillage is hosting lots of musical events, and there are DJs and live acts keeping the party going there on the promenade each day until [...]
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Eurovision 2012: Big 4 for Open Air Concert
Posted: May 22, 2012 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain0
Italy – Also revealed online today by La Gazetta is a new video from Nina Zilla showcasing her entry ‘L’amore è Femmina‘. The video sees Nina change hair colour and dance with several young men. As one of the ‘big five’ Nina wins herself a direct ticket to the Eurovision final in Baku on May [...]
Italy – Today it was announced by National broadcaster RAI that Nina Zilli will no longer sing “Per Sempre” in Baku. Instead she will sing the title track of her new album, “L’amore è Femmina“, which translates as Love is Female. It is Nina’s second album and has been placed 11th in the Italian album [...]
Italy – After days of speculation, Italy have today confirmed that their representative Nina Zilli will sing ‘Per Sempre’ in Baku. This is the song that helped win her a place in the Eurovision final, but it will be adapted to an ‘international version’. This probably means part of the song will be sung in [...]
Italy – After a 5 hour show at the San Remo Festival yesterday, Nina Zilli was announced as Italy’s representative for Eurovision 2012. You can watch her here, singing ‘Per Sempre‘, but this may not be the song she finally sings in Baku. That has yet to be decided.
Italy: Technical Problems for Start of Sanremo Festival
Posted: February 15, 2012 by hulluna in ItalyItaly – The 62nd edition of the Sanremo Festival in Italy is now well underway. Yesterday saw 14 acts go through to tonight’s show…despite the fact 2 should have been eliminated! Technical problems meant the voting could not be counted, and all 14 acts go through. 4 acts will be eliminated tonight instead.
Italy – As far as we know, we can expect Italy’s RAI to participate in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest again. The most probable scenario for the national selection is that one of the participants of the popular San Remo Festival will be chosen by a special jury again. Last year Raphael Gualazzi was selected [...]
Italy – Raphael Gualazzi, the runner-up in Eurovision 2011, is now touring around Italy. Gualazzi and his tour, Reality and Fantasy Tour Teatrale, have already gone to Switzerland, Austria, France and Germany, and now is going back to Italy to more concerts around the country. He brought Italy back to Eurovision after 13 years, and got a respectable
Rumors: Sergey Savin for Russia, Kostas Martakis for Greece, Marco Mengoni for Italy
Posted: December 16, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Greece, Italy, Rumor, RussiaRumors – At this early point of the Eurovision season, rumors are floating around like tourists in the Mediterranean at summer time: There are too many, some are pretty others not so much. Apart from the good old “Dima Bilan is returning” rumor, Russia has yet another rumor up its sleeve: X-Factor winner Sergey [...]
Italy – Last year there was some fantastic news that Italy would be returning to the contest after 13 years of absence. However, this year’s participation has been under concern because of various reasons including financial problems and poor ratings of last year’s contest. According to EscToday the Italian national broadcaster RAI have announced that [...]
Italy – During this year’s San Remo Festival, Raphael Gualazzi was chosen as the Italian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. His song “Follia D’Amore” was translated into “Madness of Love” and will be performed in a bilingual version in Düsseldorf. Now the final version of the Italian entry has been released. Up until now [...]
Italy: Listen To The English Version of Their Entry Called “Madness Of Love”
Posted: March 11, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in ItalyItaly – The official preview video of the Italian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 has just been revealed. English lyrics have been added to the song which is now called “Madness Of Love” (original: Follia D’Amore). Raphael Gualazzi frequently switches between Italian and English in this new version. The video is quite simple [...]
Italy sends “Raphael Gualazzi – Follia D’Amore” to Eurovision
Posted: February 20, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in ItalyItaly – Raphael Gualazzi who had won the newcomers category of the San Remo Festival yesterday will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. He will sing the self-penned jazz song “Follia D’Amore” in Düsseldorf. A jury of 5 RAI officials and politicians chose the song for Italy, but as he won the newcomers’ [...]
Italy – Tonight Italy will choose its representative for their return to the Eurovision Song Contest after not participating for over 14 years. A special jury will choose one of the participants of the renowned and traditional “SanRemo Festival”. The final of the festival is held tonight, but the Eurovision entry is not necessarily the [...]
Italy - Yesterday at the press conference concerning the San Remo Festival and the Italian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, a sentence was uttered by Marco Simeon, the Head of international affairs at RAI, that has caused some discussions about how Italy will broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. ”Eurovision had been losing its interest over the years [...]
Italy – The Italian national broadcaster held a press conference today to clarify their method for choosing their entry for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. The Italian representative will be chosen from the participants of the renowned “San Remo Festival” which is being held this week. “The Italian entry will be chosen from the competitors [...]
Italy – eurovision.tv has just revealed that the Italian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 will be chosen from the participants of the traditional “Sanremo Festival”. An official statement of the national broadcaster RAI explained: “A specific jury will give a special prize to the artist best fit to represent our country in Germany”. [...]
Italy: San Remo winner or Marco Mengoni to Düsseldorf?
Posted: January 14, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in ItalyItaly – Massimo Liofredi, the Director of RAIDue talked about Italy’s plans for the Eurovision Song Contest in an interview with the blog of Davide Maggio. Apparently another RAI director asked him what he tought of the Eurovision Song Contest and his answer was quite simple: “I’m all for it”. That is also why he [...]
Italy – After the list of participants for the traditional Sanremo festival 2011 was published featuring the 2010 X-Factor winner Nathalie the Italian plan for Eurovision 2011 is more unclear than ever. The Head of entertainment at RAI had claimed this summer that the winner of X-Factor would not (as in previous years) participate in [...]
Eurovision 2011: Who will return?
Posted: December 30, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Analysis, Andorra, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, SlovakiaEurovision 2011 – This year there were more rumors and speculations about possible returns, debuts and withdrawals than in any other year. There were also more (predominantly positive) surprises concerning the list of participating nations. In total 42 countries (nothing official yet) will compete for the ‘Grand Prix’ in Düsseldorf next May. An official list [...]
Italy – In order to celebrate Italy’s return to the Eurovision Song Contest, we will turn this entire week into “Italy Week” on The Eurovision Times. Each day we will publish information on Italy’s history in Europe’s most popular music competition. Be it statistics, stories or their most successful entries. Your task to round this [...]
Italy Week: Gigliola Cinquetti – Si/Non ho l’eta
Posted: December 6, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ItalyItaly Week – In order to celebrate Italy’s return to the Eurovision Song Contest, we will turn this entire week into “Italy Week” on The Eurovision Times. Each day we will publish information on Italy’s history in Europe’s most popular music competition. Be it statistics, stories or their most successful entries. Your task to round [...]
Italy – In order to celebrate Italy’s return to the Eurovision Song Contest, we will turn this entire week into “Italy Week” on The Eurovision Times. Each day we will publish information on Italy’s history in Europe’s most popular music competition. Be it statistics, stories or their most successful entries. Your task to round this [...]
Italy – In order to celebrate Italy’s return to the Eurovision Song Contest, we are having a special “Italy Week” on The Eurovision Times. Each day we will publish information on Italy’s history in Europe’s most popular music competition. Be it statistics, stories or their most successful entries. Your task to round this week off [...]
Editorial: Italy’s Eurovision return is historic
Posted: December 3, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Editorial, ItalyItaly – Yesterday was a historic date for the Eurovision Song Contest. After 13 long years one of the biggest European countries announced it’s return to Europe’s most favourite TV-show: Italy. The return of the Mediterranean country came as a big surprise to me. After the final of X-Factor (whose winner was reported to go [...]
Italy – For Eurovision fans this is news of almost historic impact and a Christmas present 22 days too early! It seem like Germany’s victory has an impact not only on Austria but also Italy. The EBU confirmed today that the Italian broadcaster RAI has applied for participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in [...]
Italy – The final of the casting show X-Factor has just started on RaiDue. There still hasn’t been a confirmation concerning the participation of the winner in the Eurovision Song Contest. This summer the director of RAI announced that the winner of X-Factor would not, as in previous years, participate in the San-Remo Festival but [...]
Italy – This summer the director of RAI announced that the winner of the casting show X-Factor would not, as in previous years, participate in the San-Remo Festival but in the Eurovision Song Contest. Since then nothing has been reported or announced. It is quite possible that the announcement was a PR gag or just [...]
#1: Domenico Modungo – Nel blu dipinto di blu (1958)
Posted: November 3, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Best Eurovision Song Ever, ItalyBest Eurovision Songs – Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”. Your numero uno is a real classic “Domenico Modungo – Nel blu dipinto di blu” and comes from a country that currently [...]
