THE‘was of Stefano De Martino at the helm of Sanremo 2027 officially began today, Saturday 6 June 2026. The new host and artistic director broke the silence of the beginning of summer revealing on social channels from Rai the official dates of the 77th edition of the event: the Festival will be staged from 16 to 20 February 2027. This strategic choice, studied together with the director of prime time entertainment Williams De Liberatore, confirms the mid-month placement already seen in 2026 to avoid overlapping with the Winter Olympics and guarantees the organizational machine more time for preparations.
Sanremo 2027, De Martino’s video and the clue about Vasco Rossi
The frames of the clip published on social media show a minimal film, where a hand turns numbered signs to compose the days of the event. What unleashed the fans in the comments is the musical background chosen by De Martino, who borrowed the notes of Reckless life by Vasco Rossi. This track was immediately read as a market clue. In 2027 the rocker from Zocca will celebrate fifty years of career and the music gave rise to the suspicion of a coup for the first evening, with followers asking loudly: “Is the background a spoiler?”.
The dates and the precedent that penalized Carlo Conti
There choice to schedule the event in mid-February surprised industry experts by reopening the debate on the public company’s audience figures. The 2026 edition, entrusted to Carlo Conti, was exceptionally postponed to the end of February so as not to overlap with the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
That forced displacement had penalized the Festival in terms of audience, transforming 2026 into the least followed year of the last period due to the changing habits of the public. Many observers expected an immediate return to the usual and more favorable first week of February, but Stefano De Martino wanted to take a middle path, lengthening preparation times to the detriment of tradition.
The new regulation and the Maria De Filippi hypothesis
The engines of Sanremo 2027 are moving in advance, bringing to light the first rumors about the revolutions in the regulation, which are already inflaming the debate on reduce the roster of competing singers to shorten the live broadcastsin addition to moving the covers evening to Thursday. The However, a more radical change could concern Eurovisionseparating the victory at Ariston from the pass to the European event through a dedicated voting evening on Friday. The first television rumors even hypothesize the presence of Maria De Filippi alongside the Neapolitan host to secure the audience.
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