Use the actual year’s programme structure
Rai’s 2026 regulations identify the fifth evening as the main final, the third as the new-proposals result and the fourth as the covers evening with its own possible award. Those distinctions belong to the 2026 competition structure. They should not be transferred automatically to 2027 or another year’s rules.
Keep festival year, night and award category when searching for a result or performance. A covers-night success is not, by that label alone, the winner of the main festival competition. Likewise, a video posted after the final can still show an earlier evening’s performance.
Performer, song and presentation version are separate fields
RaiPlay’s accessible 2026 item for Enrico Nigiotti and Alfa identifies En e Xanax as a fourth-evening cover and explicitly labels the presentation LIS. That one record supplies several useful fields: festival year, night, performers, song and signed presentation. It is not a claim that the song was their original main competition entry.
Preserve those fields when a household needs a particular performance or accessible edition. A different arrangement, guest or night can produce another recording of the same song. The title alone is therefore insufficient to identify the intended performance.
A song excerpt is not the complete evening
A performance clip can be complete as that song while omitting introductions, interviews, voting explanations and the rest of the serata. If the task is following the whole programme, use the full-evening reference rather than assuming a short item is a truncated stream. If only the performance is wanted, the individual clip may be the precise match.
The LIS label applies to the inspected publisher item; it does not guarantee that every copy or player supplies the same presentation. No performance was watched or competition result independently assessed here. The sources establish the 2026 structure and one exact item’s metadata, not Canadian access or another year’s rules. A useful shortlist keeps the complete evening and its selected performances as linked but separate works.
Sources and scope
Scope notes distinguish published documentation, supplied information and editorial methods. They do not report a hands-on service test.
- Rai: Sanremo2026 regulations — Official indexedPDF distinguishes fifthfinal/thirdnewproposals/fourthcoveraward;2026scopeonly.
- RaiPlay: signed covers-night performance — Official indexed itemmetadata identifies LIS,performers,En e Xanax and fourth2026evening; no lyricsquoted orvideoinspected.
