Max Pezzali kicks off Italy's best-selling 2026 stadium tour in Turin with a two-night 90s karaoke party
The former 883 frontman brings his 'Max Forever - Gli anni d'oro' show to 80,000 fans across two sold-out nights at the Allianz Stadium, the first proper stop after a warm-up date in Lignano Sabbiadoro.
Max Pezzali's 'Max Forever - Gli anni d'oro - Stadi 2026' tour opens its stadium phase at the Allianz Stadium in Turin on 13 June, with the first of two sold-out nights that together will draw 80,000 spectators. The tour is already the best-selling of 2026 in Italy, having shifted over 660,000 tickets across 15 stadium dates, ten of which are sold out.
The production is a deliberate dive into 1990s nostalgia. Giant walkmans, Game Boys and old mobile phones decorate the stage, and the show opens with a video segment hosted by Amadeus, the presenter of the Festivalbar music contest from 1993 to 1997. Pezzali, 58, rebrands the segment 'FestivalMax', a nod to the 1995 edition his former band 883 won with the song that opens the set: 'Tieni il tempo'.
- Date zero at Stadio Teghil, Lignano Sabbiadoro
- First Turin show at Allianz Stadium (sold out)
- Second Turin show (sold out)
- Naples, Stadio Maradona (sold out)
- Rome, Stadio Olimpico (first night sold out)
- Bologna, Stadio Dall'Ara (sold out)
- Messina, Stadio F. Scoglio (first night sold out)
- Bari, Stadio San Nicola
- Padua, Stadio Euganeo
- Milan, Stadio San Siro (both nights sold out)
- Start of six-date Christmas residency at Unipol Dome Milano
The Turin setlist
A 27-song running order published by Fanpage maps a journey from uptempo dance-pop to ballads. The opening trio — 'Tieni il tempo', 'Bella vera' and 'La lunga estate caldissima' — was streamed live on Corriere.it. The middle stretch dips into deeper catalogue: 'L'universo tranne noi' and 'Ci sono anch'io', once largely forgotten, have resurfaced on TikTok and been adopted by a younger audience raised on their parents' 883 CDs. The show closes with a reprise of 'Tieni il tempo' and the 1990s floor-filler 'Con un deca'.
Generational crowd
Corriere della Sera reporters describe a multi-generational audience that mixes forty-somethings who lived through the 883 era with children who were not yet born. Isabel, aged 8, attends her first concert alongside her father Paolo Pantuso, 47, who says he still gets goosebumps. Giulia Serafini, born in 1995, is at her third Pezzali show, raised on her older brother's cassettes. The paper calls the crowd 'a mix of ages worthy of a sociology study'.
When you have songs that meant something very important to many people at a given moment, they will always be better than new ones.
What comes next
After Turin, the caravan moves to Naples (19 June, sold out at Stadio Maradona), Rome (23-24 June at Stadio Olimpico, first night sold out), Bologna (27-28 June, both sold out), Messina (1-2 July, first night sold out), Bari (5 July), Padua (8-9 July) and Milan (11-12 July, both sold out at San Siro). In December, Pezzali will play a six-date residency at the new Unipol Dome Milano Santa Giulia from 22 to 30 December.
