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Video Lucio Corsi Eurovision 2025, the performance and the strategy to bypass the ban

Written by Andrew Navarro
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THEperformance by Lucio Corsi in the first semi-final of theEuro Vision Song Contest 2025 did not go unnoticed. The Tuscan singer-songwriter, qualified by right to the final as the representative of Italy, brought the song to the stage in Basel “I wanted to be tough”, with a style faithful to his artistic identity.

Despite being out of the competition, the attention on him was very high: Italy in fact has the right to vote during the evening and Corsi's performance had a clear objective, to conquer the European public in view of the final on May 17. With a highly recognizable aesthetic, English subtitles and an arrangement studied down to the smallest details, his performance was able to combine visual elegance and narrative irony. But what struck most was the presence on stage of a musical instrument played live, which is extremely rare in the context of Eurovision.

The performance

Lucio Corsi he opened his speech with the usual retro look, identical to the one already shown in Sanremo, reaffirming the coherence between musical identity and image. The atmosphere built on stage, played between warm lights and intimate shots, amplified the emotional impact of a song that tells of the fragility behind the mask of the self-confident man. The performance was able to mix theatrical performance and musical attention, maintaining a delicate balance between intensity and lightness. Even out of competition, Corsi demonstrated a strong awareness of the stage, using it to tell rather than to impress.

How he got around the ban on live instruments

The regulation of theEuro Vision Song Contest imposes the ban on the use of live instruments, a rule introduced to ensure equality between artists and uniformity in the management of sound. The rule specifies that instruments cannot be used connected to audio amplification systems.

Lucio Corsi circumvented the constraint thanks to a simple and effective intuition: he brought on stage aharmonica, a non-amplified instrument and therefore granted by the regulation. The passing of the harmonica represented a small gesture of symbolic rupture, a return to music played even in an increasingly televised and digital context.

This is a rare event: from over 25 years you couldn't hear a single instrument played live on the Eurovision stage. With this choice, Corsi marked a historic moment for Italy and for the entire contest.

The video of the performance

Lucio Corsi's performance is already available on RaiPlay and on the official Eurovision channels, accompanied by English subtitles that make the lyrics of the song accessible to the international public. The video was also relaunched by several official social accounts of the event, receiving positive comments for its originality, stage presence and respect for the Italian musical tradition.

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