Sergio Mancinelli

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The goddess of love, Aphrodite, opens the tragedy and the goddess of hunting, Artemis, concludes it, but at the center of Euripides' “Hippolytus, Bearer of the Crown” (428 BC) are not the gods, but rather Phaedra's absolute, consuming human passion for her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra hides her love and wastes away.

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.