Dieci Festival for her Not they may be enough. Sorry if we take and rework the title of one of Lucio Battisti’s most famous songs to present the return to the Ariston stage, for the eleventh time, of Patty Pravo77 years old, but this artist really deserves a presentation with great pomp.
And this not only for 120 million records sold during his career and for giving us some of the most loved and well-known Italian songs of all time (The doll, Wonderful thought, Sad boy, Crazy ideaetc), but also for the enthusiasm that leads her, at almost 80 years old, to want returning to a stage that scares even the most seasoned artistsmoreover with public tastes and discography profoundly changed – and often difficult to intercept – compared to his debut.
Patty Pravo at Sanremo 2026 with Opera
The famous artist will perform at Sanremo Festival sixty years after his musical debut (Sad boy came out in 1966) bringing «a song that celebrates uniqueness, a dream called Opera (this is the title of the song written for her by Giovanni Caccamo, ed), Why we are all works of art. And we hope for great love.” La Divina – as it was renamed by Carlo Conti – will return to Ariston «because it makes me very happy and then after all these years of Sanremo I want to bring a possibility, a love for ourselves. Uniqueness and art.”
Excellent premises, on paper, but the singer was careful to limit her enthusiasm: «I don’t sing songs destined to win», she had confessed, superstitious, some time ago, adding only one hope, namely that, in the end, «everything is nice».
Patty Pravo. (Matteo Pavone)
Patty Pravo and the Sanremo Festival
The relationship between Patty Pravo and the Sanremo Festival is one long history made up of returns, artistic breakthroughs, memorable looks and songs destined to stay. His first appearance dates back to 1970when he goes on stage at the Ariston together with Little Tony with The sword in the hearta song also written by Mogol which took fifth place and marked the beginning of a bond destined to last for almost sixty years.
Over the years, Patty Pravo returns to Sanremo several times, going through its transformations and always remaining faithful to her own – albeit chameleonic – identity. In the 1984 one of the most significant moments for her arrives: with For a doll wins the Critics’ Award, and establishes himself as an interpreter capable of combining elegance, intensity and modernity.
After the participations of 1987 and of 1995the latter finishing in twentieth place, the Festival returns to cross paths also in 1997a memorable year thanks to the song And tell me you don’t want to dieone of the most successful from the pen of Vasco Rossi and composed of Gaetano Curreri and Roberto Ferri. It is an artistic success that earned her the Critics’ Award and the one for Best Music, as well as an eighth place finish.
After the participations of 1987 and of 1995the latter finishing in twentieth place, the Festival returns to cross paths also in 1997a memorable year thanks to the song And tell me you don’t want to dieone of the most successful from the pen of Vasco Rossi and composed of Gaetano Curreri and Roberto Ferri. It is an artistic success that earned her the Critics’ Award and the one for Best Music, as well as an eighth place finish.
His career in the 2000s
In the 2000s Patty Pravo continued to frequent the Ariston, participating in the editions of 2002del 2009 – year in which he obtained the prestigious AFI Award (Italian Phonographic Association) with And I will come there one day – and of 2011.
In the 2016 returns once again to surprise with Immense skies by Fortunato Zampaglione, winning the Critics’ Award for the third time and closing the race with a dignified sixth place. The last Sanremo apparition arrives in 2019paired with Briga, with the song A bit like life. An ending that seals a unique journey, made up of expressive freedom, artistic coherence and stage presence capable, every time, of leaving its mark and reinventing itself.
The cover of Patty Pravo’s twenty-ninth studio album, “Opera”, out on March 6th and already available for pre-order. (Nar International – Ada/Warner Music Italy)
The evening of duets
Patty Pravo’s duet will be very particular: the artist, in fact, on the fourth evening of the Festival did not want a colleague alongside her, but the principal dancer of La Scala Timofey Andrijashenkowho will perform with her to the tune of I’ll leave you a songfamous song by Gino Paoli traditionally sung paired with Ornella Vanoni.
And here you can’t help but read the singer’s tribute to another great diva of Italian music, who passed away last November and is impossible to forget. Its largest Opera it’s really dedicated to her.
