On June 18, 2023, Raffaella Cara would have turned 80 years old. Only this year, the Donizetti Theater Foundation in Bergamo commissioned a work dedicated
Simona Ventura (fifth night).
The whole week will be without audience due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the very first time that the contest will be held in an empty theatre.
A few notable comebacks are to be underlined: Arisa (winner in 2009 in the Nuove Proposte and again in 2014 among the Campioni), Francesco Renga (winner in 2005) and Francesca Michielin (winner in 2016 and Italian representative to the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm). An anecdote:
Orietta Berti first took part to the Festival of Sanremo back in
1965 with the song
Io ti darò di più, competing a total of 11 times. This Wednesday’s will be her 12th appearance.