Sanremo Music Festival 2008
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| Dates | 25 February 2008 (1st night) 26 February 2008 (2nd night) 28 February 2008 (3rd night) 29 February 2008 (4th night) 1 March 2008 (5th night) |
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| Presenter(s) | Pippo Baudo, Piero Chiambretti, Bianca Guaccero, Andrea Osvárt |
| Artistic director(s) | Pippo Baudo |
| Orchestra leader | Pippo Caruso |
| Broadcaster | Rai 1 |
| Venue | Teatro Ariston |
| Big Artists section | |
| Entries | 20 acts (20 songs) |
| Voting system | Mixed (Popular jury, "Quality jury" and televotes) |
| Winner | Giò Di Tonno & Lola Ponce "Colpo di fulmine" |
| Critic's prize | Tricarico "Vita tranquilla" |
| Newcomers' section | |
| Entries | 14 acts (14 songs) |
| Voting system | Mixed (Popular jury, "Quality jury" and televotes) |
| Winner |
Sonohra "L'amore" |
| Critic's prize | Frank Head "Para parà ra rara" |
| Sanremo Music Festival chronology | |
| ◄ 2008 ► | |
The Sanremo Music Festival 2008 was the 58th Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo. The first and the second night of the show were held on 25 and 26 February 2008, while the last three nights were held from 28 February and 1 March 2008.
The contest, broadcast by Rai 1, was presented by Pippo Baudo and Piero Chiambretti with Bianca Guaccero and Andrea Osvárt. The competition included two different sections. The "Big Artists" section, starring twenty established singers, was won by the duo composed of Giò Di Tonno and Lola Ponce with the song "Colpo di fulmine", while the newcomers' section, featuring 14 debuting or little known artists, was won by Sonohra's "L'amore".
The show received poor ratings compared to those of the previous years. All of the five nights of the show were watched by less than 10,000,000 people, the worst result in the contest's history.
In June 2007, RAI vice director Giancarlo Leone officially announced Pippo Baudo and Piero Chiambretti as the presenters of the Sanremo Music Festival, also confirming Baudo as the artistic director of the show. It was Baudo's thirteenth Sanremo Music Festival as the presenter of the competition. Italian actress Bianca Guaccero and Hungarian fashion model and actress Andrea Osvárt were later selected as the co-presenters of the show.
Gaetano Castelli was the creator of the scenography for the fifteenth time, while theatre director Gino Landi, assisted by Massimo Fusi, was chosen as the director and choreographer of the show for the sixth time. The Sanremo Festival Orchestra was directed by Pippo Caruso.
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