Against the backdrop of the sea, at first light in the morning, the 'Albe in controuce, concerti al sorunzione del sole sulle spiagge di Riccione 2026' find their most authentic dimension, returning every summer as one of the most eagerly awaited events.

From 21 June to 9 August, the festival represents the heart of the summer programme: open-air concerts on the Adriatic seashore that transform sunrise into an experience to be lived and shared.
All performances are free admission.

Sunday 21 June, 5:15 a.m. - Venerus | Marano public beach
Opening the festival, on the symbolic day of the summer solstice and in the heart of the La Notte Rosa weekend, will be Venerus, one of the most recognisable, intense and innovative voices of contemporary Italian singer-songwriting. An artist capable of crossing genres and languages, over the years Venerus has built a unique path, in which writing, production and sound research coexist in a deeply personal and international dimension.

Sunday 5 July, 5:15 a.m. - MILLE | San Martino public beach
The second appointment is entrusted to MILLE, stage name of Elisa Pucci, an eclectic artist capable of crossing music, theatre, and writing with a personal and recognisable style. Her album Risorgimento tells of a personal and creative rebirth, between irony and depth, constructing a direct and contemporary language. Her writing restores a form of song capable of uniting different generations and evoking images and narratives, always maintaining a strong visual and theatrical component.

Sunday 12 July, 5.15 p.m. - Dutch Nazari | Marano public beach
Dutch Nazari comes to Riccione with a special date of the Guarda l'estate amore mio tour, organised by Antenna Music Factory, linked to his latest album Guarda le luci amore mio released by Woodworm. One of the most original singer-songwriters on the Italian scene, Dutch Nazari has built up a recognisable style over the years, balanced between songwriting and rap attitude, capable of combining literary writing, irony and observation of everyday life.

Sunday 19 July, 5:30 a.m. - Giovanni Truppi | Spiaggia libera del Marano
The fourth dawn is a special project, between words and music, Giovanni Truppi presents La lunga fiaba di sabbia, a journey that interweaves Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Long Sand Road and Italo Calvino's Italian Tales, transforming a geographical itinerary into a poetic and collective tale. In 1959, Pasolini travelled the entire Italian coastline by car, creating a reportage that is at once diary, vision and document of a country in transformation. A few years earlier, Calvino had collected and rewritten popular Italian fairy tales, constructing a symbolic and archaic map of our imagination. La lunga fiaba di sabbia relates these two worlds; each stage of Pasolini's journey corresponds to a fairy tale from the same region, creating a continuous dialogue between reality and myth, observation and imagination.

Sunday 26 July, 5:30 a.m. - Sara Gioielli | San Martino public beach
The Fifth Dawn, presented in collaboration with Riccione Summer Jazz, welcomes Sara Gioielli, a young Neapolitan singer-songwriter and producer. Her path combines classical training, jazz studies and electronic research, giving rise to a free and personal language in which writing is intertwined with sound experimentation. Having grown up musically at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples and then trained in jazz singing, Sara Gioielli has developed a voice capable of crossing genres and contexts, always maintaining a strong expressive identity.

Sunday 9 August, 5:30 - Gloria Campaner & Thea Crudi | Spiaggia libera di San Martino
Closing the festival will be Yantra. In the temple of sound, an immersive experience between music and meditation. The idea is that of a ritual dedicated to the sun, a collective embrace between nature, the sea and the public, in which the rising of the day becomes a shared experience. Gloria Campaner, internationally renowned pianist, was the protagonist of one of the most intense moments of the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics Milan Cortina 2026 when at the Arena in Verona she performed Experience by Ludovico Einaudi accompanying Roberto Bolle's performance, in a powerful dialogue between music and movement. Alongside her, Thea Crudi, populariser, author and trainer, has for over a decade been pursuing a path dedicated to the voice as an instrument of connection and inner expression.