SMRTV San Marino, the Sammarinese national broadcaster has informed esctoday.com that the 2013 Sammarinese entry  Crisalide will be premiered for the very first time on  Friday 15 March, during a special televised show at 20:25 CET.

Valentina’s music video Crisalide/Chrysalis will have its worldwide debut on March 15th 2013 at 20.25 CET on SMRTV San Marino.

This will be the event that flips the cards and changes the rules of the Eurovision game. You can’t afford to miss it! A live stream of the event will be provided on the SMRTV’s web site www.smtvsanmarino.sm, on eurovision.tv and esctoday.com.

Just one week remains until San Marino’s entry to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö/Sweden is released! Crisalide will be sung by no other than Valentina Monetta who we all remember from last year’s Contest in Baku.

Ralph Siegel composed the entry with lyrics by Mauro Balestri. This will be Mr Siegel’s 21st entry at the Eurovision Song Contest, and his second one in a row for San Marino.

Also watch out for Valentina’s brand new website http://www.valentinamonetta.com which will go online upon release of the song. The song will be made available on iTunes and other online music stores on March 15th at 21.00 CET. The music video will go online at the same time on Valentina’s website.

San Marino debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 with Miodio and is yet to win the event. Stay tuned to esctoday.com for the latest information and news on San Marino and the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest 2013.


Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 22 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.