Marco Mengoni, this year’s Italian representant has released the Eurovision version of his 2023 entry, “Due Vite”. After Marco won the Italian national final, Sanremo Festival 2023, it became immediately clear that he needed to shorten his song.
Matching the 3-minute criteria
To match the 3-minute rule of the Eurovision Song Contest Marco needed to cut almost one full minute of his song, and so he did. On March 31st 2023 he released the Eurovision cut of his song, which you can listen to below.
About Marco Mengoni
It is not the first time Marco Mengoni represents Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest, he already did so in 2013 with the song “l’essenziale”, finishing 7th (of 26) in the Grand Final. The same year he also won the Sanremo Festival 2013, the Italian song contest on which Eurovision is based.
Eurovision 2023
Italy’s Marco Mengoni will perform immediately in the Grand Final, because Italy is one of the Big Five countries.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 will take place on May 9th, 11th, and 13th 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. 37 countries will compete for the crown. This year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be a joint venture, since last year’s winner Ukraine cannot organize the contest on home soil because of the ongoing war with Russia.
