CHow did the Sanremo 2026 final go? Carlo Conti took the audience through an exhausting evening with many questionable moments and some good ones. Through farcical scenes like the frightening stunt of Andrea Bocelli on horseback, Giulio replacing Gino (Cecchetin) and mothers on stage. Here are the top and flop moments of a very long evening concluded with the deserved victory of Sal Da Vinci.
Sanremo 2026 final: tops and flops, report cards
Top: the glam rock of Rag Dolls
Among rustling dresses, lace, sequins, tattoos and electric guitars, Rag dolls have finally threw some fuel on a little night sparkling. To get in tune with such a pop event, Stay with me It’s been tamed a bit compared to their harder style.
Nevertheless, however, it is a solid and sincere piece And made it known to the general public the talent and energy of an all-female group. A true rarity. Only discordant note: the promise wicked by Martina Cleo Ungarelli, the singer of the group. She had sworn that, if she managed to participate in Sanremo, she would have Carlo Conti’s face tattooed on her arm. Help.
Flop Sanremo 2026: Nino Frassica
Defined master of surreal humoron the festival stage Nino Frassica brought his usual repertoire all too real. Old gags, the inevitable list of puns, mispronunciations and the perpetual air of absent-mindedness. A banner of the 90s that could make those nostalgic for the past give in. Then we remember that the idea of the mini Sandokan swordsman is his. Impossible to forgive him.
Top rag dolls. (Getty Images)
Double Flop: the mini sandokan swordsman + Bocelli on horseback
The audience had already moved on to that photographic nonsense of Carlo Kan. He had laughed of satisfaction listening king Kabir Bedi criticize with elegance the screenplay of new series on Mompracem Tiger. The entrance on stage of a mustachioed mini Sandokanwho performed wielding curved swords in front of a mock-amused Frassica, it was the final blow. Time to recover and Here comes Andrea Bocelli at the entrance to the Ariston riding a white horse. Yes. A horse. White. But why?
Top Sanremo 2026: Giorgia Cardinaletti, Carlo Conti’s tamer
Beautiful, talented, in control of herself and, above all, capable of taming the conductor. Throughout the evening, Carlo Conti never had to drive it or cue as he did with it wavers Laura Pausini or the beautiful hologram of Irina Shayk. Giorgia Cardinaletti it’s perfect demonstration than finding a pleasant co-host, divinely dressed, easygoing And equipped with correct syntax it wasn’t that difficult.
Giorgia Cardinaletti top between Carlo Conti and Laura Pausini. (Getty Images)
Flop: Max Pezzali and the singing ship
Everyone loves Max Pezzali. For the old and new generations of fans he has become a bit like a father and an older brother. The series about the birth of the 883 received well-deserved success and his cult songs continue to please. Nevertheless, see him on a ship, with a lost look, to present Always the same repertoire, has an involuntary repelling effect.
Top Sanremo 2026: Patty Pravo (as it is)
On the last evening of the festival, Patty Pravo she didn’t make it to the stage but she simply appeared as a light deity. His piece, Opera, it has the most beautiful text of this edition and he played it masterfully, effortlessly. A true heritage of humanity. As it is.
Flop: Eddie Brock
In an edition where, out of 30 songs, maybe 7 will be savedsucceed in bring the least interesting piece it’s really a melancholy record. An unfortunate text which tells of a girl who lets herself be used by men, Vultures, It certainly didn’t help. The final and the assignment of the last place in the ranking confirmed both the vocal weakness of this willing interpreter, be the little mastery on stage.
Double Top: Sayf’s mother, the tears of the Brancale sisters
People believe that every show, even a musical one, is an eternal performance. Nevertheless, this final showed that even the Bigs have a heart. They saw each other Serena Brancale’s tears and sister Nicole while running Here with mewritten with the in mind They mom, which is no longer there. The same emotion and tears shown by Sayf, who dragged his mother on stage to thank her that I believed in him.
Serena Brancale top emotions.(Getty Images)
Flop: the post-song phrases of circumstance
Sanremo is a place out of time and out of the world real in which there is no room for politics, religion and disagreements. When it happens some surge of social pride, everything is sweetened to make it harmless and exhaust. The final, veiled by news of the war in Iran, brought to the surface hypocritical phrases about world peace or sugary dedications to this or that, as if it had been a lazy password.
Top: Masini (even without Fedez)
Last year, Marco Masini accompanied Fedez on the cover night And, for the rapperwas how to win the Jackpot. Years pass and, although the success of the early 90s is far away, Masini confirms himself as a sublime singer. In the final, he put technique and soul into it: next to him, Fedez almost seemed like a real singer.
