“I could change the rules, there will be some news”

The Sanremo Festival 2025 takes shape. Carlo Conti will be the host and the artistic director of the next two editions, therefore Sanremo 2025 and Sanremo 2026. On Tg1 at 8pm on Wednesday 22 May, live, he told how he imagines the future of the singing festival. Music will be at the center, but does not exclude changes in the regulation.

What Carlo Conti’s Sanremo Festival will be like

During the 8.00 pm edition of Tg1, Carlo Conti spoke on the link and said that he had spent a decidedly hectic day after the announcement that he would be the host of the 2025 Sanremo Festival: “I received more messages today than when my son was born. Good to know. My wife, seeing the images of my previous festivals on the news, told me: “How young you were”. Only the color of the skin remains the same (laughs, ed.). AND the desire to make music, to party, to keep the name of Sanremo high, as I tried to do in those three years, as Baglioni did to the great and the great Amadeus did. It is a celebration of Italian music“. The journalist Giorgia Cardinaletti asked him: “Can you tell us something?“. But the host burst out laughing: “I do not even know. It’s still early, we’ll have the opportunity to give previews.”. Then he added:

What if I change something in the rules? Maybe yes, something yes, we’ll see, I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about it. There will be some news, but Sanremo will always remain Sanremo. It’s a wonderful celebration of music. Now we will get to work with serenity, tranquility and lightness, trying to entertain the public and provide lightness in this period in which it is much needed.

Carlo Conti host and artistic director of Sanremo 2025

Carlo Conti will be the host and artistic director of Sanremo 2025 and Sanremo 2026. Rai, through a press release, made it known that the decision to focus on him immediately brought the company’s top management, the CEO Roberto Sergio, General Director Giampaolo Rossi and Prime Time Entertainment Director Marcello Ciannamea. Carlo Conti has already been the protagonist of three festivals. The first, in 2015, he conducted with Emma Marrone, Arisa and Rocío Muñoz Morales. The second, in 2016, he conducted with Virginia Raffaele, Gabriel Garko and Madalina Ghenea, while the third, in 2017, he conducted with Maria De Filippi. After him, management passed to Claudio Baglioni and then the three record-breaking years of Amadeus. Conti, on Tg1, declared: “I will try to resume the work done, carried out in a big way by Baglioni and Amadeus. Music is the protagonist, at the centre, we hope to do a good job and continue with this tradition, this event that puts the whole family in front of the TV“. Rai makes it known that “the Artistic Director is already working on a Festival with many surprises and novelties“.