page_title: Sanremo Music Festival 2014
section_title: Big Artists performances during the third night
hierarchical_section_title: Sanremo Music Festival 2014 / Performances, guests and voting details / Third night / Big Artists performances during the third night
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: nel 1983
context_page_description: The Sanremo Music Festival 2014 was the 64th annual Sanremo Music Festival, a televised song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, between 18 and 22 February 2014 and broadcast by Rai 1.
  Fabio Fazio and Italian comedy actress Luciana Littizzetto presented the show, which was based on the same rules adopted for the previous contest. Competing artists were split in two different sections—Big Artists and Newcomers. The Big Artists section included 14 established Italian artists. During the first and the second night of the show, each act performed two songs, and only one song per act was allowed to continue the competition, as a result of votes received by public and journalists. After the third night, Riccardo Sinigallia's entry, "Prima di andare via", was disqualified for being performed during a concert preceding the competition. During the final night, Arisa's "Controvento" was announced as the winning song for the Big Artists section of the contest.
  The Newcomers' section featured eight songs performed by debuting or little known artists. The winning entry, Rocco Hunt's "Nu juorno buono", was announced during the semi-final of the contest.
context_section_description: During the third night, the selected song of each act competing in the Big Artists section was performed again, and a first ranking was compiled, based on public votes only, with Francesco Renga's "Vivendo adesso" in the first spot. 
  At the end of the night, the last four acts of the Newcomers' section performed their entries and, after being voted by journalists and by the public, two of them advanced to the final round of the competition, while the remaining ones were eliminated.
  The show started with a tribute to Claudio Abbado, with musicians of the Philarmonic Orchestra of the La Fenice opera house, directed by Diego Matheuz, performing the overture from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Luciana Littizzetto later performed a monologue about beauty and diversity. At the end of her piece, German dancer Dergin Tokmak, which lost the use of his legs as a child, performed an acrobatic dance with his crutches. After a monologue by arts critic Flavio Caroli, the a cappella group Shai Fishman and The A Cappella All Stars made the scene with a fake show interruption, performing a medley of popular international songs. 
  Italian showman Renzo Arbore was another guest of the night. He performed his hit "Ma la notte no", from his 1985 TV programme Quelli della notte, and Roberto Murolo's "Reginella" and "Come facette mammeta".
  At the end of the performances of the acts competing in the Big Artists section, astronaut Luca Parmitano was interviews by Fazio. Later, Irish singer Damien Rice performed his songs "Cannonball" and "The Blower's Daughter".
caption: Renzo Arbore was one of the main guests of the third night
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