The first images from the impressive stage that will host the 66th Eurovision Song Contest at the "PalaOlimpico" in Turin this May have been released.

The 41 artists are expected to appear in "The Sun Within", an ambitious new idea for the design of the stage based on the movements and the light created by the kinetic energy of the sun.

Eurovision fans will enjoy a spectacular stage with the possibility of presenting theatrical movement, which will be surrounded by water and will have in front of it a lush Italian garden that will absorb the sun's rays.

Multimedia artist and set designer Francesca Montinaro is the stage designer, who will highlight the entries of the 41 competing countries in a unique way.

After creating the stage "The Ripped Backdrop" for the Sanremo Italian Song Festival in 2013 and "The Trampoline in the Clouds" for the 2019 event, Francesca Montinaro now presents "The Sun Within", the big stage of the Competition Eurovision 2022 song to be held in Turin.

The designer was partly inspired by the Italian character.

"The sun, a source of spectacular movements and tricks of light, dominates the stage and represents the Italian mentality: always in motion, revolutionary, creative, hospitable, passionate, intuitive. "We are the ones who have the sun inside us and that is the way we live in this world," he explained.

Francesca Montinaro took into account the comprehensive nature of the Eurovision Song Contest and the warm hospitality of the Italian people when she began the work of designing the stage.

"The waterfall that surrounds the scene, allegorically represents the sea that surrounds us, a symbol of our complex culture. "The stage is our peninsula: a country where every contestant is welcome, wherever he comes from," he said.

"The artists and their groups will be hosted in a lush Italian garden, where the vegetation is mixed with the rays of light, floating between reality and illusion, transporting them to a playful and architectural dimension," he said.

Viewers watching the 66th Eurovision Song Contest - to be held in Turin on May 10, 12 and 14 - are expected to enjoy a breathtaking new visual experience, alongside the familiar variety of music style for which it stands out. the competition.

Italy's public broadcaster Rai, host of Eurovision 2022, says it is excited that the stage is both classic and modern, and manages to combine digital with analog, combining light and motion.