- Rapsodia
Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Italy "Rapsodia"
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year = 1992
country = Italy
artist = Domenica Bertè
as =Mia Martini
with =
language = Italian
languages =
composer = Giuseppe Dati
lyricist = Giancarlo Bigazzi
conductor = Marco Falagiani
place = 4th
points = 111
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1992it from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4e-jHnkYzM from YouTube]
prev = Comme è ddoce 'o mare
prev_link = Comme è ddoce 'o mare
next = Sole d'Europa
next_link = Sole d'Europa"Rapsodia" (English translation: "Rhapsody") was the Italian entry in the
Eurovision Song Contest 1992 , performed in Italian byMia Martini .The song is a ballad, in which Martini sings about two "old lovers" who meet each other in a bar and rekindle their romance. She sings that they "leave their families, betray their friends/They don't want advice about how to be happy" as part of their quest for "another youth". The entire situation is described as "this immense and hopeless rhapsody".
The song was performed seventeenth on the night (following
Denmark 'sKenny Lübcke &Lotte Nilsson with "Alt Det Som Ingen Ser " and preceding Yugoslavia's "Extra Nena " withLjubim te pesmama ). At the close of voting, it had received 111 points, placing 4th in a field of 23.It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1993 Contest by
Enrico Ruggeri with "Sole d'Europa ".
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