Rai has announced the regulations of Carlo Conti’s new “Sanremo Giovani”, whose Festival, as already announced by the artistic director, will be faster and more streamlined, starting from the numbers. The age of participation has also been reduced, which will go from 16 to 26 years of age.
“The Sanremo Festival 2025 will be from 4 to 8 February”
daniela borghi
June 22, 2024
The selection
In the first phase, Conti and the Music Commission – chaired by him – will be involved in listening to all the songs presented, in compliance with the participation requirements, to arrive at a list of at least 40 artists; then the live auditions in the historic headquarters in via Asiago in Rome, to reach a total of 24 young talents.
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From November 12th the actual competition will begin with the traditional challenges: for four second evenings on Rai 2 (12, 19, 26 November and 3 December) 6 artists will perform their songs live but only 3 of them will pass the round, judged also in this case by the Music Commission.
The 12 selected will enter the semi-final on 10 December, also broadcast in the late evening on Rai 2, which, through the mechanism of direct challenges, will be reduced to 6: these 6 “finalists” will be joined by 2 artists from the “Area Sanremo” selected by the Rai Music Commission.
At this point everything will be ready for the final exam on December 18th in prime time on Rai 1, live from the Sanremo Casino: 8 potential “New Proposals” to take to the field to win the right to perform in February during “Sanremo 2025”, but only 4 of them (3 from “Sanremo Giovani” and 1 from “Area Sanremo”) will manage to land on the stage of the Ariston Theater for Sanremo 75 , from 4 to 8 February.
The race
In the Sanremo Giovani final, the evaluation of the competing artists will be entrusted to a musical commission and, through televoting, to the public: each with a weight of 50 percent. «The reintroduction of the New Proposals category, separate from that of the Big ones – declares the artistic director Carlo Conti – is intended to constitute a concrete moment of further valorisation of young people. The model that has been identified, and also the lowering of the chronological age, serves to build a growth path lasting three months, between the various steps of “Sanremo Giovani”. All aimed at identifying the potential Bigs of the future through the challenge in the New Proposals category in February.
The full regulations of the event are available on the portal www.sanremo.rai.it from today, Thursday 27 June. Registrations will open from 4pm on July 10th and will then close on October 8th.
