Marco Mengoni Returns To Eurovision!

The 73rd edition of Sanremo has come to its apex point tonight with the 5th and final night of “Festival di Sanremo 2023“

Live from the Teatro Ariston of Liguria coast in Italy the show hosts Amadeus and Gianni Morandi introduced the 28 artists. The running order of performances was as follows:

Elodie – Due
Colla Zio – Non mi va
Mara Sattei – Duemilaminuti
Tananai – Tango
Colapesce & Dimartino – Splash
Giorgia – Parole dette male
Modà – Lasciami
Ultimo – Alba
Lazza – Cenere
Marco Mengoni – Due vite
Rosa Chemical – Made in Italy
Cugini di Campagna – Lettera 22
Madame – Il bene nel male
Ariete – Mare di guai
Mr. Rain – Supereroi
Paola & Chiara – Furore
Levante – Vivo
LDA – Se poi domani
Coma_Cose – L’addio
Olly – Polvere
Articolo 31 – Un bel viaggio
Will – Stupido
Leo Gassmann – Terzo cuore
Gianmaria – Mostro
Anna Oxa – Sali (Canto dell’anima)
Shari – Egoista
Gianluca Grignani – Quando ti manca il fiato
Sethu – Cause perse

Studio Versions:

Results:

Calculating all the votes from the televote, the press jury, the demoscopic jury the top 5 acts announced and they are:

Tananai – Tango
Mr. Rain – Supereroi
Ultimo – Alba
Lazza – Cenere
Marco Mengoni – Due vite

For the final voting, the same 3 will vote for the top5 announce again. once the results were announces it is now confirmed that as predicted Marco Mengoni and his “Due vite” will represent Italy in the next Eurovision Song Contest. Italy will automatically participate in the grand final as they are one of the BIG5

Marco Mengoni will be back on the Eurovision stage after he represented Italy already back in 2013 and brought Italy to the 7th spot with his beautiful ballad “L’essenziale”

Last year in Turin Mahmood and Blanco gave us all “Brividi” with their live performance that also gave them the 6th place collectiong 268 points