Sanremo Festival 1983

Sanremo Festival 1983
output	33
date	3rd to 5th February
place	Ariston Theater in Sanremo
Charisma	Rete 1 , Rai Radio 1
Moderation	Andrea Giordana with Anna Pettinelli , Isabel Russinova and Emanuela Falcetti
Attendees	36 (with 36 songs)
winner	Tiziana Rivale  - Sarà quel che sarà
Critic award	Matia Bazar  - Vacanze romane
◄ Sanremo 1982 • Sanremo 1984 ►

The 33rd edition of the Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo took place in 1983 from February 3rd to 5th at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo and was moderated by Andrea Giordana together with Anna Pettinelli , Isabel Russinova and Emanuela Falcetti .

procedure

The Ariston Theater, venue of the Sanremo Festival

In 1983 Gianni Ravera, again responsible for organizing the festival, increased the number of participants to 36 - a new record. As before, they were divided into two groups, with all of the 18 “Big” reaching the final, while only eight of the 18 “Giovani” (newcomers). Due to the polemics surrounding Claudio Villa in the previous year, Ravera now opted for a new, more transparent composition of the juries: In 60 municipalities in Italy, a jury of 20 people was formed under the direction of the municipal secretary. The actor Andrea Giordana was chosen for the moderation, who was assisted by the moderation trio of the program Discoring , consisting of Anna Pettinelli , Emanuela Falcetti and Isabel Russinova .

After half playback had become the rule in previous years , this year the labels demanded full playback. After a protest by the municipality of Sanremo, the participants were finally free to choose whether they wanted to sing live or not. The Rai sparked further controversy when they banned the photographers from the theater ground floor, whereupon they went on strike. As an experiment, the Totip voting, parallel to that of the juries, was carried out for the first time this year : viewers throughout Italy could cast votes for Sanremo entries using the tickets from the Totip prediction game (developed for horse betting ). The system proved its worth and was introduced the following year as the festival's official voting procedure.

Among the participants were two previous winners: Toto Cutugno (1980) and Matia Bazar (1978). Other representatives of the main category were Dori Ghezzi , who appeared at the festival accompanied by her partner Fabrizio De André ; the television presenter Barbara Boncompagni ; Rock star Vasco Rossi on his second attempt; Gianni Morandi with a comeback attempt; as well as three international singers, Bertín Osborne (Spain), Amii Stewart (USA) and Richard Sanderson (Scotland). In the newcomer category, Giorgia Fiorio , daughter of Formula 1 official Cesare Fiorio , received a lot of attention, and Amedeo Minghi also attracted attention, but did not make it to the final; in addition, Zucchero tried a second time, although he had more success as a writer (he was involved in four other songs in the competition), and the duo of Franco Battiato and Giusto Pio sent another song two years after the victory with Per Elisa into the race, this time sung by the newcomer Sibilla , but without reaching the final.

As in previous years, Ravera attached great importance to prominent, international guests. 1983 included Peter Gabriel , John Denver , Toquinho , Frida ( ABBA ), KC and the Sunshine Band and Ph.D. Comedian Roberto Benigni also returned to present his directorial debut Tu mi turbi , and Pippo Franco was again a guest and presented a new song.

This year the final also included a final round, in which the top three from both categories moved in. To everyone's surprise, the newcomer Tiziana Rivale came out on top with the song Sarà quel che sarà , ahead of Donatella Milani (another newcomer) and Dori Ghezzi. For songwriter Maurizio Fabrizio it was the second win in a row. The critic's award went to Vacanze romane by Matia Bazar, fourth place overall. In the unofficial Totip audience classification, the results of which Pippo Baudo announced the day after the final, the fifth-placed Toto Cutugno and L'italiano won ahead of Gianni Morandi and the newcomer Giorgia Fiorio.

Candidates

• winner
• Eliminated in the preliminary round

placement	Interpreter	song	Authors
1	Tiziana rival	Sarà quel che sarà	Roberto Ferri, Maurizio Fabrizio
2	Donatella Milani	Volevo dirti	Donatella Milani, Daniele Pace, Zucchero
3	Dori Ghezzi	Margherita non lo sa	Oscar Prudente, Oscar Avogadro
4th	Matia Bazaar	Vacanze romane	Carlo Marrale, Giancarlo Golzi
5	Toto Cutugno	L'italiano	Cristiano Minellono, Toto Cutugno
6th	Fiordaliso	Oramai	Claudio Daiano, Angelo Valsiglio, Depsa
7th	Stefano Sani	Complimenti	Luigi Albertelli, zucchero
8th	Gianni Morandi	La mia nemica amatissima	Mogol , Gianni Bella , Gianni Morandi
9	Amii Stewart	Working late tonight	Mario Capuano, Giosy Capuano, Simon Boswell
10	Marco Armani	È la vita	Marco Armani, Paolo Armenise
11	Giuseppe Cionfoli	Shalom	Giuseppe Cionfoli
12	Giorgia Fiorio	Avrò	Sergio Menegale, Raffaele Ferrato, Piero Soffici
13	Flavia Fortunato	Casco blu	Massimiliano Di Carlo, Paolo Masala, Elio Palumbo , Marcello Ramoino
14th	Bertin Osborne	Eterna malattia	Enzo Malepasso, Luigi Albertelli
15th	Riccardo Azzurri	Amare te	Riccardo Azzurri
16	Sandro Giacobbe	Primavera	Sandro Giacobbe, Luigi Albertelli
17th	Christian	Abbracciami amore mio	Mario Balducci
18th	Marco Ferradini	Una catastrofe bionda	Roberto Giuliani, Marco Ferradini, Cheope
19th	Richard Sanderson	Stiamo insieme	Zucchero
20th	Zucchero	Nuvola	Zucchero
21st	Gianni Nazzaro	Mi sono innamorato di mia moglie	Daniele Pace, Michele Russo
22nd	Barbara Boncompagni	Notte e giorno	Daniele Pace, Angelo Valsiglio
23	Passengers	Movie star	Celso Valli, Angelo Piccarreda
24	Viola Valentino	Arriva arriva	Maurizio Fabrizio, Vincenzo Spampinato
25th	Vasco Rossi	Vita spericolata	Vasco Rossi, Tullio Ferro
26th	Pupo	Cieli azzurri	Pupo, Stefano Saturnini
	Daniela Goggi	Dammi tanto amore	Maurizio Bassi, pupo
	Pinot	Donna sola	Ivano Michetti
	Brunella Borciani	E la neve scende	Luigi Albertelli, zucchero
	Patrizia Danzi	Fammi volare	Cavaros, Michele Violante
	Gloriana	Il mio treno	Silvio Subelli, Giancarlo Nisi, Guido Natili, Silvio Aloisio, Fabio Anfuso
	Nino Buonocore	Nuovo amore	Nino Buonocore
	Sibilla	Oppio	Franco Battiato , Fleur Jaeggy , Sibilla, Giusto Pio
	Alessio Colombini	Scatole cinesi	Adelio Cogliati, Alessio Colombini
	Manuele Pepe	Solo con te	Manuele Pepe
	Amedeo Minghi	1950	Gaio Chiocchio, Amedeo Minghi

successes

Ten of the finalists were able to reach the top 25 of the single charts after the festival. Significantly more successful than the top three in the festival ranking were Vacanze romane by Matia Bazar, the winner of the totip ranking Toto Cutugno with L'italiano and Vasco Rossi's Vita spericolata , which in the final ranking only came on the penultimate (25th) place. Place was landed. Among the guests were Ph.D. as well as Peter Gabriel and Pippo Franco achieve great chart successes after their festival appearance.

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1983	Vacanze romane Matia Bazar	IT1 (19 weeks) IT	4th place
	L'italiano Toto Cutugno	IT2 (17 weeks) IT	5th place
	Vita spericolata Vasco Rossi	IT3 (21 weeks) IT	25th place
	Sarà quel che sarà Tiziana rival	IT5 (13 weeks) IT	1st place
	Volevo dirti Donatella Milani	IT9 (13 weeks) IT	place 2
	La mia nemica amatissima Gianni Morandi	IT10 (10 weeks) IT	8th place
	Margherita non lo sa Dori Ghezzi	IT12 (13 weeks) IT	place 3
	Complimenti Stefano Sani	IT14 (10 weeks) IT	7th place
	Eterna malattia Bertín Osborne	IT18 (7 weeks) IT	14th place
	Working Late Tonight Amii Stewart	IT23 (1 week) IT	9th place
Further chart successes from the festival environment:
1983	I Didn't Know Ph.D.	IT2 (18 weeks) IT	Guest Post
	Shock the Monkey Peter Gabriel	IT2 (17 weeks) IT	Guest Post
	Chi chi chi co co co Pippo Franco	IT3 (20 weeks) IT	Guest Post
	Canzone pulita Nino Manfredi	IT16 (6 weeks) IT	Closing tune
	Aquarello Toquinho	IT21 (2 weeks) IT	Guest Post

Web links

• Festival di Sanremo 1983 on Sorrisi.com (Italian)
• Sanremo 1983 on HitParadeItalia (Italian)

supporting documents

1. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on July 12, 2019 (Italian, paid subscription access).