2024 promises to be a great summer of live music with the program of the Arena della Regina in Cattolica which continues to be enriched with unmissable concerts.
The first scheduled appointment is for June 30th when Il Volo will perform on stage. After the announcement of Ad Astra, the new recording project, the first composed entirely of unreleased songs, the group has announced the dates of the live “Tutti per uno – Capolavoro” which will land at the Arena della Regina in Cattolica on 30 June. Il Volo will bring to the stage the new songs from the first unreleased album Ad Astra – a sound journey in 11 tracks with an international flavor that comes after the participation in the 74th Sanremo Festival with Capolavoro -, the greatest successes of the Italian musical tradition and those of the own repertoire, showing the many facets of the artistic evolution of its individual members.
It continues on July 6th with Annalisa who, after participating in the Sanremo Festival with the song “Sincerely”, undertook a tour of the main Italian cities with “Tutti nel vortice Palasport” and then continued in the summer with “Tutti nel vortice Outdoor”. The singer-songwriter has dominated all the music charts, confirming herself as the queen of pop. In 2023 alone, Annalisa surpassed over 1 million and 300 thousand certified copies, thus achieving 34 Platinum and 14 Gold Records over the years. With her latest album “And then we ended up in the vortex” she established herself as the only woman constantly present for 10 weeks in the Top 10 of the official Fimi / Gfk chart. Inserted in the Forbes Italia ranking among the 100 successful Italian women, she is among the most listened to women in Italy on Spotify, she was the first woman at No. 1 in the ranking with a single for three years, but she is also the only woman soloist to be present with a single in the Fimi/Gfk chart for more than a year and the only female soloist in the TOP10 of the most listened to singles of the year (Fimi/Gfk). The official TikTok ranking for 2023 sees it as the absolute protagonist. About her Her “Mon amour” and “Bellissima” are respectively in first and second place among the songs most used by users during the year. And not only that, her hits “Euforia”, “Bellissima”, “Mon Amour” and “Ragazza Sola”, in addition to having been at the top of the charts, have brought her to the top of the radio airplay 8 times where the l the most past artist. “Mon Amour” is also the most watched female music video of 2023.
“The Last Pink Night – Final Tour” is the series of concerts for the farewell to the scenes of Umberto Tozzi who, on 12 July, will take to the stage of the Queen stage of the extraordinary world tour with which the artist will greet the live performances and which will cross 3 continents between 2024 and 2025. After 50 years of a career studded with successes and recognitions in Italy and around the world, more than 80 million records sold and over 2000 concerts, the last opportunity to experience the emotions of Umberto Tozzi’s live performances will be a sequence of over 40 unforgettable shows in exceptional locations that will touch 3 continents: Europe, America and Oceania. A 21-piece orchestra will accompany the artist’s unmistakable voice.
Evening of great laughter, that of July 24th, with the unmissable trio of comedians from Romagna formed by Paolo Cevoli, Giuseppe Giacobazzi and Duilio Pizzocchi. When ignorance and cowardice meet on the same stage, the result that can be achieved is unimaginable. Giuseppe Giacobazzi and Paolo Cevoli, the two ambassadors of Romagna comedy, put on a show suitable only for those with abdominals trained enough to laugh. Everything is “blessed” by the Emilian comedy of “Uncle Duilio” Pizzocchi: institution, friend, author and mentor of the first two. Warhorses, interactions and moments of authentic improvisation. Three friends, three champions of laughter: trained abs will most likely not be enough to resist laughter!
July 27th is Pooh time which, after the great success of the tour which saw them as protagonists in 2023 between stadiums, Arenas of Verona, summer arenas and sports halls, is ready to return live. “Pooh – Amici
Forty years of “Night before exams”, the most loved song of Antonello Venditti, which made generations of students sing and excite. The Roman artist celebrates the event with a new major summer tour which will see him take the stage at the Arena della Regina in Cattolica again on 6 August. The album “Cuore” contains songs that have become the history of Italian music. On stage the artist, accompanied by his superband, will bring those songs live together with many other great hits from his long extraordinary musical history.
Gabry Ponte’s dance music will unleash the audience at the Arena della Regina on 7 August. He is the Italian record-breaking DJ and producer, his hits have conquered entire generations with over 3 billion global streams, over 15 million monthly listeners on Spotify, 3 diamond records, 44 platinum and 24 gold records: Gabry Ponte celebrates the his 25-year career and offers four events that promise to be memorable, during which the artist will retrace his incredible career through his most famous hits, with sets, special effects and visuals that no Italian DJ has ever proposed before. Now.
On August 9th it will be the turn of rapper Gemitaiz with “The QVC Experience” tour. The artist will bring live the songs from the ten volumes of “What I advise you”. The series of concerts will be dedicated above all to the songs contained in the Roman rapper’s ten mixtapes, the first of which was released in 2009, almost fifteen years ago.
With “Deejay Time”, the 90s come back to life on the night of the Queen’s Arena on August 10th. It will be a real blast from the past. When kids rushed home from school to turn on the radio. And listen to what would later be the songs of the moment. They dictated the trends, “imposed” the rhythms of the people of the night. Time passes quickly, but the memories remain, until they resurface. There were all the right ingredients, at the Rimini Beach Arena, for an evening that feels like a return to the origins. Many on Tuesday (16 August), after the August 15th, were lulled by the notes of Albertino, Molella, Fargetta and Prezioso who returned together for a tour which saw the Rimini stage as a special appointment. “Deejay Time Celebration” will bring a unique show to the stage, transporting the audience to those legendary 90s which saw the phenomenon of electronic music explode, on a journey through time but which is also projected into the future, with the greatest hits from Italian and international dancefloors. The protagonists of Deejay Time were true pioneers who were able to write an indelible page in the history of dance music and with a notable impact on Italian pop culture which still attracts three generations today.
Achille Lauro unveils the new “Achille Lauro Summer Fest – A Rave before the Iliad” the new and incandescent summer leg, as announced on social media, a real rave in the name of inclusiveness open to all, artists, ravers, freaks, families and children on special guest Boss Doms scheduled for August 14th. Fresh from the success of “Ragazzi Madre – L’Iliad”, the docufilm that tells the story of his artistic journey and the first ten years of his career is available on Prime Video and after months at the top of the charts with Stupidi Ragazzi (Elektra Records / Warner Music Italy), the the latest single with an avant-garde sound that linked a pop song to urban bases thanks to electronic music, this summer Achille Lauro is finally ready to embrace his audience again who has never stopped supporting him to celebrate all the albums that have made him trap icon and multifaceted artist capable of dismantling every stereotype.
On August 17th it will be the turn of The Kolors, the only Italian date of the band’s European tour. For the group in the lineup all their successes in a show with extraordinary special effects. “The Kolors European Tour 2024/25” starts in May, and will see Stash, Alex and Dario perform for the first time at major festivals and in the most important European arenas until March 2025 in the wake of the enormous success of “Italodisco” – beyond 220 million streaming, 5 platinum discs in Italy, 4 platinum discs in Poland, 1 platinum disc in Switzerland – and of “Unboy, a girl”, the song presented at the last Sanremo Festival and already certified platinum in Italy.
It’s a journey that begins from Palermo Gigi D’Alessio who, on August 24th, will be on the Catholic stage. After the eight special events of “Gigi – Uno Come Te – L’Emozione Continua” scheduled for June in Piazza del Plebiscito, the artist’s summer continues with a busy live calendar. The artist embraces his audience again to sing together his most loved songs, in a setlist that contains over 30 years of successes: from historical songs such as “Non mmorlore mai”, “The path of age”, “Mon amour”, “Quanti amori”, “Como suena el corazon”, “Non dirgli mai”, up to the more recent ones such as “La prima stella” and “Benvenuto amore”, “Noi due”, “L’ammore”, “Come me” , “While life goes away”, and many others. On stage he is accompanied by Alfredo Golino (drums), Roberto D’Aquino (bass), Pippo Seno (guitars), Ciro Manna (guitars), Checco D’Alessio (keyboards), Lorenzo Maffia (piano and keyboards) and Max D’ Amber (keyboards and programming).
From the Sanremo stage to the Cattolica stage: Fiorella Mannoia in concert on August 31st. For the Roman singer, 2024 is a special year that sees her blow out 70 candles and the artist is ready to celebrate this milestone in the most natural dimension for her, the stage. with a new live project: “Fiorella Sinfonica – Live with orchestra” in which she will be accompanied by a symphony orchestra for the first time. A new exciting adventure for Fiorella Mannoia began with her return to competition on the Ariston stage. The artist participated in the 74th Sanremo Festival with the song Mariposa, a true manifesto to sing the pride of being a woman which she signs personally together with Cheope and Carlo Di Francesco who also writes the music with Federica Abbate and Mattia Cerri. Fiorella Mannoia returned to the Sanremo competition for the sixth time, seven years after participating with “Che sia benedetta”, second place in 2017. The first time at the Ariston dates back to 1981 when she performed in the competition with the song “ Hot black coffee.” Her second was in 1984 with “Come sicambia” which consecrated her in all respects as an extraordinary interpreter. 1987 is the year of “What women don’t say”, a song written by Enrico Ruggeri, the first of the great songwriters to believe in her, inaugurating that musical path that has always characterized her, with which she won the critics’ prize she also won the 1988 Festival, thanks to another important meeting, the one with Ivano Fossati who wrote “Le notti di maggio” for her.
