Loud pop music, scenography with swirling mix of colors, energetic dancers but above all Francesca Michielin, Fedez, Ambra Angiolini, Dargen D’Amico and Rkomi in great shape and unleashed, even in the comments at the table: X Factor 2022 has begun with the long parade of the 12 artists selected in the first phase and now arrived on the stage of the Repower Theater in Milan for the Live Show number 1 of this edition. An already intense evening, starting from a super pop opening that involved the five artists (on the notes, among others, of Blink 182, Lorde and Taylor Swift) and characterized by some twists and the first digs between the four, tamed by Francesca, who appeared totally at ease at her absolute debut in the management, with the first two extraordinary guests of the season, Elisa and Dardust. At the end of the evening, the electrifying moment of the tilt that led to the first elimination: Matteo Siffredi, from Ambra’s team, left the stage. The first round of the episode was opened by the Omini, a highly acclaimed 18 and 19 year old band from Turin from the Fedez roster, super rock with “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones; then Iako, 27-year-old Venetian producer, with Franco Califano’s “A summer ago” transformed into a slow and intense ballad; then the amusing and entertaining Disco Club Paradiso, an Emilian quartet, which changed the look of an epochal piece like “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King making it extremely funny; the 26-year-old Bolognese and Milanese by adoption Lucrezia, for the debut at the Live of Ambra’s team, who with her delicate and tender voice brought, sitting at the piano, a melancholy version of “Can’t take my eyes off you “; then Matteo Orsi, 25 year old from Rome by Dargen D’Amico, sensitive and very sweet with “The coldest place” of I Cani; finally a trip to Naples with Dadà, from the Fedez group, who proposed his Neapolitan / international mash-up “Caravan Petrol / Pua”, by Renato Carosone and Dengue, Dengue, Dengue. From this heat the least voted was Lucrezia. So, in the second group of artists, it was the turn of Linda, whose mentor Fedez created with her an intense performance started at the piano of “Excluded the dog” by Rino Gaetano ; Matteo Siffredi, from Ambra, who brought Mina’s “Ancora Ancora Ancora” to the stage; the French Saints, by Rkomi, explosives on the notes of “Heavy Cross” by Gossip; Beatrice Quinta, from the Dargen roster, as always super pop to the tune of Cher’s “Believe”; then Joėlle, again by Rkomi, on Avril Lavigne’s generational song “I’m With You”; and finally Tropea, a band from Ambra’s team, on “Asilo Republic”, a song from the “first” Vasco. To go to the ballot, among them, Matteo Siffredi. Then the ballot: Ambra, judge of both boys, asked the colleagues at the table to go haywire and so it was, leaving the decision to the public, who chose to eliminate Matteo Siffredi, thus saving the young singer. Two great guests took to the stage in the kick off of # XF2022: the couple Elisa and Dardust, to preview a small taste of “An Intimate Night”, the singer-songwriter’s tour in the theaters in which the special guest will be the Italian pianist and pioneer of alternative classical music; then Dardust is back, who proposed an unpublished medley extracted from “Duality”, his new work to be released on October 28th.