Sanremo Music Festival 2012
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The Sanremo Music Festival 2012 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2012), officially the 62nd Italian Song Festival (62º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 62nd annual Sanremo Music Festival. It was held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia, during the five nights between 14 February 2012 and 18 February 2012,[1] and it was broadcast by Rai 1.
Sanremo Music Festival 2012 | |
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Dates | |
Semi-final 1 | 14 February 2012 |
Semi-final 2 | 15 February 2012 |
Semi-final 3 | 16 February 2012 |
Semi-final 4 | 17 February 2012 |
Final | 18 February 2012 |
Host | |
Venue | Teatro Ariston |
Presenter(s) | Gianni Morandi and Rocco Papaleo, Ivana Mrázová |
Musical director | Marco Sabiu |
Artistic director | Gianmarco Mazzi |
Host broadcaster | Rai 1 |
Big Artists section | |
Number of entries | 14 |
Voting system | Mixed (Televotes, jury, orchestra votes and journalists "Golden share") |
Winner | Emma "Non è l'inferno" |
Newcomers' section | |
Number of entries | 8 |
Voting system | Mixed (Televotes, jury, orchestra votes and journalists "Golden share") |
Winner | Alessandro Casillo "È vero (che ci sei)" |
2011 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 2013 |
The show, presented by Gianni Morandi with Ivana Mrázová and Rocco Papaleo,[2] was a competition divided in two different sections. The "Big Artists Section", including 14 established Italian artists performing a previously unreleased song, was won by Emma Marrone with "Non è l'inferno". The "Newcomers Section", won by Alessandro Casillo performing "È vero (che ci sei)", was a competition starring eight debuting or little-known artists. Two of them were chosen through the contest Area Sanremo, and six of them were chosen as the winners of the web contest SanremoSocial.
At the end of the competition, Nina Zilli was chosen by a specific jury among the participants in the Sanremo Music Festival as the Italian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Alessandro Casillo was excluded from the selection, since he would be under the age of 16 during the Eurovision Song Contest.[3]