Bologna, June 11, 2025 – Rock has arrived in Bologna: an overwhelming Vasco Rossi set the fans alight at the Dall'Ara in the first of the two highly anticipated Bologna dates of the tour. An explosive show, almost three hours of music with a setlist that spanned his entire career. And many friends in front of the stage ( photo ), starting with Francesca Sofia Novello , wife of Valentino Rossi, a great friend of Kom.
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Vasco Rossi set the audience alight at his first concert in Bologna at the Dall'Ara stadium (photo Schicchi)
After the two 'zero' dates in Bibione and the doubles in Turin and Florence, 'his' Bologna also responded with enthusiasm: here he plays at home , and the city had been waiting for him for days, some had already been queuing for five days just to get to the front row. "I did my first live concert in 1979, in Piazza Maggiore, with fifty-one hundred people under the stage", Vasco recalled, shortly before the concert, in an Instagram story.
The last time in Bologna was in 2023 , with a poker of sold outs . And tonight he returned to the city, with numbers very different from that first live in the 80s: sold out , as for every stop of the tour (completely sold out already a year ago when it was announced), and 77 thousand people between today and tomorrow.
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Francesca Sofia Novello, Valentino Rossi's wife, at Vasco Rossi's concert at Dall'Ara in Bologna (photo Schicchi)
By the way, just tonight Vasco has already announced the dates for 2026 , and on June 5 and 6 he will return to Emilia Romagna, at the Parco Urbano in Ferrara . The show began with the notes of Vita Spericolata : an unusual choice for the opening - it had never happened before this tour - but perfectly consistent with the common thread of this year's shows: life.
"We are life, in all its dimensions, complicated, stubborn, full, amazed life. We are a reckless life" are the first words she sings on stage. From that moment on, the concert is a crescendo: the most iconic pieces from Vivere, C'è chi dice no, Sally - which has become, over the years, an anthem for many women - Rewind, Siamo solo noi , considered by many to be the true anthem, are unmissable.
But there was no shortage of early songs, still very current today: Mi si escluso (1996) or Gli spari sopra (1993), a song about a world that never really changes. And then a medley from the seventies and eighties : La strega, Cosa vuoi da me, Tu vuoi da me qualcosa, Una canzone per te, Va bene, va bene così . There was also space for more recent songs, such as Se ti fossi dire and Siamo qui (2021) , demonstrating the fact that 'Vasco is always Vasco' – as fans always say – from his debut at the end of the 70s up to today, towards the 50 years of career that he will celebrate in 2027.
