Sanremo 2022: the winners and the best moments of the festival

The final evening opened with the hymn of Mameli interpreted by the band of the Guardia di Finanza and it was a crescendo of emotions together with the many guests since the non-monologue of Sabrina Ferilli up to the tribute to Raffaella Carrà and Lucio Dalla.

One of the most touching moments was when Marco Mengoni and Filippo Scotti (protagonist of "It was the hand of God" by Paolo Sorrentino) recited a monologue against haters and discrimination.

The second evening will be remembered, above all, for the moving and important monologue of the very young actress Lorena Cesarini (famous for the Suburra series) on racism. Using some racist comments made following the choice to let her lead, the actress quoted the book Racism explained to my daughter by Tahar Ben Jelloun. She moved the whole audience of the Ariston, talking about a topic that had never been quoted in 72 years of festivals.

The presence of Drusilla Foer illuminated the third evening of Sanremo 2022. The character was conceived and played by the Florentine photographer and actor Gianluca Gori. After the success of social networks, the leap has also arrived with the management of Sanremo alongside Amadeus. A stage presence that made everyone agree and that also moved when he embarked on his monologue on diversity, indeed - quoting Foer herself - on uniqueness. These are the final words of the monologue that moved the author and all of Ariston.

The third evening in Sanremo was also the time to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Capaci and via D'Amelio massacres in which judges Falcone and Borsellino, and all the collateral victims, lost their lives due to mafia attacks.

The writer Roberto Saviano has undertaken a monologue that has struck. He recalled the duty to cultivate the memory of these events not to forget through the story of those who have dedicated their lives to justice. 

The competition was interspersed with some musical performances that made the whole audience dancing in the hall and probably also at home. In the early evening, Maneskin stole the show from the singers competing with the song that won the festival last year, but also the Eurovision 2021 and the European Music Awards, and immediately after presenting the new single Coraline. On the second evening, Laura Pausini announced the conduct of Eurovision 2022 in Turin together with Mika and Alessandro Cattelan. The singer from Romagna interpreted I have a dream by ABBA together with Mika.

On the third evening, Cesare Cremonini made a real show with his successes of yesterday and today, making every spectator grow the desire to participate and sing out loud at a concert.

The musical performances were then joined by those of Jovanotti with a medley of his successes and Marco Mengoni in the final evening with the song that led him to victory in Sanremo in 2013.