Sanremo Music Festival 2012
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| Dates | 14 February 2012 (1st night) 15 February 2012 (2nd night) 16 February 2012 (3rd night) 17 February 2012 (4th night) 18 February 2012 (5th night) |
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| Presenter(s) | Gianni Morandi, Rocco Papaleo, Ivana Mrazova |
| Artistic director(s) | Gianmarco Mazzi |
| Orchestra leader | Marco Sabiu |
| Broadcaster | Rai 1 |
| Venue | Teatro Ariston |
| Big Artists section | |
| Entries | 14 acts (14 songs) |
| Voting system | Mixed (Televotes, jury, orchestra votes and journalists "Golden share") |
| Winner |
Emma "Non è l'inferno" |
| Critic's prize |
Samuele Bersani "Un pallone" |
| Newcomers' section | |
| Entries | 8 acts (8 songs) |
| Voting system | Mixed (Televotes, jury, orchestra votes and journalists "Golden share") |
| Winner |
Alessandro Casillo "È vero (che ci sei)" |
| Critic's prize |
Erica Mou "Nella vasca da bagno del tempo" |
| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| Selection process | Internal selection among all contestants |
| Selected artist | Nina Zilli |
| Sanremo Music Festival chronology | |
| ◄ 2012 ► | |
The Sanremo Music Festival 2012 was the 62nd annual Sanremo Music Festival. It was held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia, during the five nights between 14 February 2012 and 18 February 2012, and it was broadcast by Rai 1.
The show, presented by Gianni Morandi with Ivana Mrazova and Rocco Papaleo, was a competition divided in two different sections. The "Big Artists Section", including 14 established Italian artists performing a previously unreleased song, was won by Emma Marrone with "Non è l'inferno". The "Newcomers Section", won by Alessandro Casillo performing "È vero (che ci sei)", was a competition starring eight debuting or little-known artists. Two of them were chosen through the contest Area Sanremo, and six of them were chosen as the winners of the web contest SanremoSocial.
At the end of the competition, Nina Zilli was chosen by a specific jury among the participants in the Sanremo Music Festival as the Italian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Alessandro Casillo was excluded from the selection, since he will be under the age of 16 during the Eurovision Song Contest.
A few hours after the final of the Sanremo Music Festival 2011, Rai 1 director Mauro Mazza expressed his willing to confirm Gianni Morandi as the main presenter of the show for the 2012 contest. In an interview released in April 2011, Morandi revealed he was considering the opportunity to present the contest for a second time, and on 13 October 2011 Morandi was officially confirmed as the presenter of the Sanremo Music Festival 2012. On the same day, Gianmarco Mazzi, who had signed a 2 years long contract with RAI in late 2010, was confirmed as the artistic director of the show. It was Mazzi's seventh Sanremo Music Festival.
In late December 2011, Gianmarco Mazzi also announced that Italian actor and director Rocco Papaleo, Czech model Ivana Mrazova and English-Croatian model Tamara Ecclestone would have been Morandi's co-presenters of the show. Despite this, on 20 January 2012, Gianmarco Mazzi officially announced that Tamara Ecclestone would not be one of the presenters, following her refusal to be in Sanremo during the rehearsal for the show. During an interview released to the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Ecclestone claimed that she had never signed any contract, and that, according to her informal agreement with RAI, she should have been in Sanremo starting from 12 February 2012, but she was later asked to start working on the show on 1 February 2012. Following a neck pain, Ivana Mrazova was not on stage during the first night of the show, and she was replaced by 2011 co-presenters Elisabetta Canalis and Belén Rodríguez.
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