Milan, October 13 (askanews) – Last night, Marco Mengoni performed on stage at the Unipol Forum in Milan for the first of four sold-out dates in Milan. The Live in Europe 2025 tour—consisting of 33 concerts, 21 in Italy and 12 in Europe—will visit the most important arenas and venues in Italy and Europe, with sold-out performances for the four dates in Milan, the two dates in Pesaro, the three dates in Florence, the first date in Eboli, and the four dates in Rome, Paris, and London.
The Live in Europe 2025 tour – produced and organized by Live Nation – follows the success of the stadium tour with over half a million tickets sold and marks Marco Mengoni's grand return to the major European cities that welcomed him for the first time in 2023. With this tour, Marco Mengoni celebrates a 16-year career that has established the singer-songwriter as a protagonist of the Italian music scene and comes after his triumphant 2023 tour, culminating with the show-event at the Circus Maximus.
After last night's sold out concert, the tour will continue this evening, October 13th, with the second sold out date at the Unipol Forum, and then continue in Milan (October 15th and 17th SOLD OUT – Unipol Forum), Pesaro (October 21st and 22nd SOLD OUT – Vitrifrigo Arena), the double date in Bologna (October 24th and 25th – Unipol Arena), the three dates in Florence (October 28th, 29th and 31st SOLD OUT – Mandela Forum), the three concerts in Eboli (November 2nd SOLD OUT, November 4th and 5th – Palasele) and the four live shows in Rome (November 8th, 9th, 12th and 13th SOLD OUT – Palazzo dello Sport). The singer-songwriter will continue to perform in the major European cities of: Geneva (November 19 – Arena), Stuttgart (November 21 – Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle), Düsseldorf (November 22 – Mitsubishi Electric Halle), Zurich (November 24 – Hallenstadion), Frankfurt (November 26 – Festhalle), Munich (November 27 – Olympiahalle), Brussels (November 30 – Forest National), Utrecht (December 1 – TivoliVredenburg), Paris (December 3 SOLD OUT – Salle Pleyel), Esch-sur-Alzette – Luxembourg (December 5 – Rockhal), London (December 7 SOLD OUT – O2 Forum Kentish Town) and Madrid (December 10 – Palacio Vistalegre).
The Live in Europe 2025 tour – produced and organized by Live Nation – is a broad project that continues the success of this summer's triumphant stadium tour: bathing pop in the great theatrical tradition, where the audience itself is the protagonist because on stage they rediscover their own history, that of their peers and the entire world.
This tour is me, my experience, my vision of the world, what I've learned over the years: life is a necessary process of deconstruction in order to rebuild, and the same happens to society. Music is my way of expressing all this and raising awareness, finding beauty even in fragility, says Mengoni.
The singer-songwriter has chosen to push himself even further than usual, creating a show where he personally oversaw every detail. His thought lies behind every single image, color, and sound, as well as his vision of music: a music that speaks not only through voices and instruments, but also through a 360° approach that leaves no detail behind. From the meticulous search for a new sound that accompanies his songs with new arrangements, to imagining a stage on which to tell the story he wants to stage. From the microphone stand decorated by his hands, to the costume designs, just as he imagined them. Marco brings to the stage over a year of work, carefully planned and desired, to finally celebrate the reconstruction together with his audience. On stage, a story was presented that addressed the great themes of existence through a reflection on the pain and fragility of human life, on good and evil, until the final catharsis.
Hence Marco Mengoni's idea to bring to the stage a visual and emotional narrative that reflects the cycles of collapse and rebirth that permeate individual and collective existence; after every fall, we walk over the ruins, dig to eliminate the superfluous, recover the essential, and build anew. The show is divided into six chapters: prologue, parode, episodes, stasis, exodus, and catharsis.
The Prologue marks the beginning of the show. The presence of ruins is revealed on stage, the starting point of the entire narrative: our past from which to begin rebuilding. Six performers arrive on stage to enrich the show's narrative: mysterious, covered figures who represent the great protagonists of this show, and of all Marco Mengoni's concerts: emotions.
Selfishness opens the Parodo: seeing the other as the enemy, fueling fear, abandoning common ground to find ourselves isolated, preventing us from raising our voices, from making ourselves heard for the things that matter. Impotence explodes in a reflection on the current global situation, on the attacks that don't even stop before the innocent. And so the focus shifts to the importance of sharing, in Episodi and Stasimi, when Mengoni gives a fundamental role to music: it's his way of fighting demons. The intimacy with the audience, the desire to expose himself and share, continues with songs and lyrics that say so much about the artist at center stage, about his fragilities, but above all, about his desire to start over. This realization is at the heart of Exodus: having survived the collapse, we accept the challenge of starting over to live again, making peace with what scares us, our fragilities, the imperfections we share with all human beings. To finally find ourselves free, in catharsis.
Musically, it was a complex challenge to combine his modern repertoire with a diverse and centuries-old art form, inserting the songs into a setlist that becomes a narrative, dividing it into moments to create a unique narrative flow. A task that saw Mengoni share the musical direction of this ambitious project with Giovanni Pallotti and Francesco Fugazza. The songs on the setlist span a 15-year career, including the singer-songwriter's greatest hits, timeless gems that return to setlists after many years, and covers that naturally tie into the story Mengoni brings to the stage.
Accompanying Mengoni on stage is a 13-piece band and 6 performers—choreographed by Daniele Sibilli—who, from the solo on "Un fiore contro il diluvio" to the choreography on "Mi fiderò" and "La casa azul," surround Marco, enriching the narrative and amplifying his message.
Marco's design for his looks also stems primarily from the narrative need to recount the physical and spiritual journey of the show's protagonist and then its viewers: custom-made garments for a comprehensive wardrobe that follows the show's narrative, with a different aesthetic impact at each show. The artist—assisted by stylist Nick Cerioni—chose to involve the historic brands he's always loved working with and new, young designers hand-picked to give them visibility.
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