The Voice of Italy

The Voice of Italy
Created by	John de Mol
Presented by	Costantino della Gherardesca (5–) Fabio Troiano (1) Carolina Di Domenico (Backstage) (1) Valentina Correani (Backstage) (2-3) Federico Russo (2-4) Angelina (Backstage) (4)
Judges	J-Ax (2–3, 5–) Francesco Renga (5–) Al Bano (5–) Cristina Scabbia (5–) Riccardo Cocciante (1) Piero Pelù (1-3) Noemi (1–3) Roby & Francesco Facchinetti (3) Raffaella Carrà (1–2, 4) Max Pezzali (4) Emis Killa (4) Dolcenera (4)
Country of origin	Italy
Original language	Italian
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	+14
Production
Producer	Toro Produzioni
Original release
Network	Rai 2 HD Rai Premium (renuns)
Release	March 7, 2013 (2013-03-07) – present

The Voice of Italy is a reality singing competition and Italian version of the international syndication The Voice based on the reality singing competition launched in the Netherlands, created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. The inaugural season was in 2013 with the first episode airing on Rai 2 on March 7, 2013. The show is also broadcast via radio on Radio Rai and RTL 102.5.

It was hosted by the TV actor Fabio Troiano and the four judges were Raffaella Carrà, Noemi, Piero Pelù and Riccardo Cocciante. The winner of the series was Elhaida Dani from Team Cocciante. The program was renewed for a second season with the first episode broadcast on 12 March 2014 with Federico Russo hosting the show. Three of the judges returned; Carrà, Pelù and Noemi, however Riccardo Cocciante was replaced by J-Ax. Sister Cristina Scuccia triumphed in the 2014 final for Team J-Ax. The nun, Suor Cristina Scuccia, recited the prayer 'Our Father' on stage after winning. On the third season, Raffaella Carrà was replaced by Roby & Francesco Facchinetti as judge, while Fabio Curto was the winner.

Format

One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner.

The series consists of three phases : a blind audition, a battle phase and live performance shows. Four judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process. Each judge has the length of the auditioner's performance (about one minute) to decide if he or she wants that singer on his or her team; if two or more judges want the same singer (as happens frequently), the singer has the final choice of coach.

Each team of singers is mentored and developed by its respective coach. In the second stage, called the battle phase, coaches have two of their team members battle against each other directly by singing the same song together, with the coach choosing which team member to advance from each of four individual "battles" into the first live round. Within that first live round, the surviving acts from each team again compete head-to-head, with a combination of public and jury vote deciding who advances onto the next round. In the final phase, the remaining contestants (top 8) compete against each other in live broadcasts. The television audience and the coaches have equal say 50/50 in deciding who moves on to the final 4 phase. With one team member remaining for each coach, the (final 4) contestants compete against each other in the final with the outcome decided solely by the public vote.

Seasons

Coaches	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5
Riccardo Cocciante
Raffaella Carrà
Noemi
Piero Pelù
J-Ax
Roby & Francesco Facchinetti
Dolcenera
Max Pezzali
Emis Killa
Francesco Renga
Al Bano
Cristina Scabbia

• Coaches gallery
• 
  Riccardo Cocciante (2013)
• 
  Raffaella Carrà (2013–2014, 2016)
• 
  Piero Pelù (2013–2015)
• 
  Noemi (2013–2015)
• 
  J-Ax (2014–2015, 2018–)
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  Roby & Francesco Facchinetti (2015)
• 
  Dolcenera (2016)
• Max Pezzali (2016)
  Max Pezzali (2016)
• 
  Emis Killa (2016)
• 
  Francesco Renga (2018–)
• 
  Al Bano (2018–)
• 
  Cristina Scabbia (2018–)

Coaches and finalists

Season	Coaches and their finalists
1	Piero Pelù	Raffaella Carrà	Riccardo Cocciante	Noemi
	Silvia Capasso Giuseppe Scianna Diana Winter Flavio Capasso Giuliana Danzè	Veronica De Simone Manuel Foresta Emanuele Lucas Stefania Tasca Pamela Lacerenza	Elhaida Dani Mattia Lever Lorenzo Campani Giulia Saguatti Donato Perrone	Timothy Cavicchini Francesco Guasti Cristina Balestriere Danny Losito Marco Cantagalli
2	Piero Pelù	Raffaella Carrà	J-Ax	Noemi
	Giacomo Voli Daria Biancardi Esther Oluloro Giulia Dagani Claudia Megré	Tommaso Pini Giuseppe Maggioni Federica Buda Luna Palumbo Francesco Marotta	Cristina Scuccia Dylan Magon Valerio Jovine Carolina Russi Debby Lou	Giorgia Pino Stefano Corona Gianmarco Dottori Andrea Manchiero Gianna Chillà
3	Piero Pelù	Roby Facchinetti Francesco Facchinetti	J-Ax	Noemi
	Roberta Carrese Ira Green Marco De Vincentiis Alessandra Salerno Tommaso Gregianin	Fabio Curto Sarah Jane Olog Chiara Dello Iacovo Alberto Slitti Alessia Labate	Carola Campagna Sara Vita Felline Maurizio Di Cesare Raffaele Esposito Francesca Cini	Thomas Cheval Keeniatta Baird Andrea Orchi Mariangela De Santis Daniel Petrarulo
4	Max Pezzali	Raffaella Carrà	Emis Killa	Dolcenera
	Elya Zambolin iWolf Davide Carbone Francesca Basaglia	Tanya Borgese Samuel Pietrasanta Beatrice Ferrantino Foxy Ladies	Charles Kablan Frances Alina Ascione Roberta Nasti Giuliana Ferraz	Alice Paba Joe Croci Giorgia Alò Edith Brinca
5	Al Bano	Cristina Scabbia	J-Ax	Francesco Renga
	Maryam Tancredi Tekemaya Mara Sottocornola Raimondo Cataldo	Andrea Butturini Elisabetta Eneh Alessandra Machella Laura Ciriaco	Beatrice Pezzini Antonio Marino Riccardo Giacomini Andrea Tramacere	Asia Sagripanti Mirco Pio Coniglio Deborah Xhako Marica Fortugno

Season summary

Artist's info

  Team Riccardo

  Team Pelù

  Team Carrà

  Team Noemi

  Team Facchinetti

  Team J-Ax

  Team Pezzali

  Team Killa

  Team Dolcenera

  Team Renga

  Team Al Bano

  Team Cristina

Season	Premiere	Finale	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place	Fourth Place	Winning coach	Presenter(s)		Coaches (order)
										1	2	3	4
1	March 7, 2013	May 30, 2013	Elhaida Dani	Timothy Cavicchini	Venorica De Simone	Silvia Capasso	Riccardo Cocciante	Fabio Troiano	Carolina Di Domenico	Piero	Raffaella	Riccardo	Noemi
2	March 12, 2014	April 5, 2014	Suor Cristina Scuccia	Giacomo Voli	Tommaso Pini	Giorgia Pino	J-Ax	Federico Russo	Valentina Correani			J-Ax
3	February 25, 2015	May 27, 2015	Fabio Curto	Roberta Carrese	Carola Campagna	Thomas Cheval	Roby & Francesco Facchinetti			J-Ax	Noemi	Roby & Francesco	Piero
4	February 24, 2016	May 23, 2016	Alice Paba	Charles Kablan	Elya Zambolin	Tanya Borgese	Dolcenera		Alessandra "Angelina" Angeli	Emis Killa	Raffaella	Max	Dolcenera
5	March 22, 2018	May 10, 2018	Maryam Tancredi	Beatrice Pezzini	Andrea Butturini	Asia Sagripanti	Al Bano	Costantino della Gherardesca		Francesco	J-Ax	Cristina	Al Bano