Angelina Mango represents Italy at Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmo, Sweden – Reuters
Tonight Italy will gather on Rai 1 starting at 9pm to cheer on Angelina Mango competing tonight at the Malmo Arena for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The winner of the Sanremo Festival will be the fifteenth singer competing out of the 26 competing countries. So we will have to wait until about mid-evening to listen to his “La noia” (signed by Dardust and madame), in a competition that will be opened by Sweden, the host country, and closed by Austria.
Angelina showed up in the press room yesterday bringing the most beautiful message of musical peace through an improvisation Imagine by John Lennon. “Hello everyone, I’m here because I would really like to express my thoughts in my own way with my own words” declared the artist, visibly very excited, speaking to international reporters in English. “When I came here I saw artists just like me who live for their music and speak through their music said the artist who gave a great performance in Thursday’s semi-final – I performed on that beautiful stage at Eurovision with my heart full of love. I went to bed so proud of myself and all of us. Now I want to let the music do the talking,” she said. Angelina Mango then started singing Imagine accompanied by a guitar, a hymn to peace throughout the world.
As for the most accredited competitors in the race, there will beUkraine, which will perform second, with the song dedicated to Mother Teresa and the Madonna Teresa & Maria by Alyona Alyona & Jerry HeilIsrael with the song Hurricane written after the massacre of 7 October 2023 and performed by Eden Golan (sixth in the lineup), Switzerland with The Code “genderless” anthem by Nemo with (twenty-first in the lineup), Croatia with Rim Tim Tagi Dim of the very popular Baby Lasagna (twenty-third in the lineup) and France with the romantic one my love by Slimane
To entertain the public while waiting for the results of the vote, there will be the performance of the outgoing winner Loreen, the first woman to have won two Eurovisions, who will perform the song that led to the triumph in Liverpool Tattoo and the new single Forever.
Arriving in Malmö this evening Mara Maionchi to tell together with Gabriele Corsi the final which will be played at the Malmö Arena. Mario Acampa instead he will be the spokesperson, announcing the result of the Italian jury’s vote during the final evening. The final will also be broadcast live on radio and video on Rai Radio 2 (digital terrestrial channel 202 and TivùSat), hosted by Diletta Parlangeli and Matteo Osso.
Rai Pubblica Utilità will make the final fully accessible also through Sign Language on a dedicated RaiPlay channel. As many as 11 performers, both deaf and hearing, who began their preparation through remote rehearsals, will interpret both the 26 competing songs and the guests’ songs in Lis (Italian Sign Language) and Isl (International Sign Language). rhythm and emotions of each performance both to the audience at home and to those present in the studio. Two interpreters will instead translate the conducting part into Lis. The live broadcast will also be available in streaming on RaiPlay and will be broadcast all over the world thanks to Rai Italia.
