Italy Pop-Music Fest

Negramaro, Elisa and Achille Lauro in concert at Expo 2025 Osaka

From 19 to 21 August, the best of Italian Pop-Music arrives at Expo 2025 Osaka with three unmissable concerts at the Matsuri Arena

7 August 2025

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Negramaro
Elisa
Achille Lauro

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The Italy Pop-Music Fest, the Italian music festival that brings three iconic names of the contemporary pop scene to Expo 2025 Osaka, will take place from 19 to 21 August at the Matsuri Arena of Expo 2025 Osaka. Negramaro, Elisa and Achille Lauro will be the protagonists of three unmissable concerts on 19, 20 and 21 August respectively, unmissable appointments for lovers of Italian music and culture.

The Italy Pop-Music Fest will open on 19 August with Negramaro, who will bring to the stage their unmistakable electronic sound polluted by rock and romantic veins. The sublime and unmistakable voice of nationally and internationally famous artist Elisa will be the protagonist at the Matsuri Arena on 20 August. The eclectic personality of Achille Lauro, an artist capable of spanning genres and musical eras, will close the three evenings of the Festival on 21 August. The concerts are organised in collaboration with Friends & Partners and are part of the events calendar of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.

Negramaro

Concert on 19 August at 7pm at the Expo 2025 Osaka Matsuri Arena.

In the course of these twenty years, Negramaro have left an indelible mark on music, racking up records and firsts (they were the first Italian band to play at the San Siro Stadium in Milan and the Arena in Verona), with an unmistakable formula inspired by penetrating electronics and 'poised' between pop-rock exuberance and romanticism. Negramaro embody not only a unique artistic story, but above all the story of an extraordinary friendship that began in the early nineties on the benches of the university and grew, thanks also to the intuition of Caterina Caselli who discovered them and wanted them with her in Sugar from the very beginning. Six artists who have branded the last twenty years of Italian music with songs that have become cult hits. From the self-titled album released in 2003 to their latest studio album 'Free Love', theirs is a journey full of Italian and international awards (Mtv Europe Music Awards, Nastro D'argento and Festivalbar), records and multi-platinum certifications, including 1 Diamond Disc, 9 studio albums, 1 live album, 1 greatest hits, 3 docu-films. And numerous international collaborations such as those with Dolores O'Riordan ('Senza fiato') and OneRepublic ('Better Days').

Elisa

Concert on 20 August at 7pm at the Expo 2025 Osaka Matsuri Arena.

Elisa, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer, has won countless Platinum Records, Diamond Discs and all the Italian music awards and accolades. Thanks to her unmistakable voice, she has collaborated with great artists, including Luciano Pavarotti, Ennio Morricone, Tina Turner, Andrea Bocelli, Dolores O'Riordan and the Imagine Dragons. Winner of the Sanremo Festival in 2001 with the song Luce, her voice has enchanted directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton who wanted her on the soundtrack of their films ('Django Unchained' and Disney's 'Dumbo'). For Disney she sang and voiced in the colossal 'The Lion King' and in 2019 Mattel dedicated a Barbie to her as a positive role model for the new generations. In the same year Elisa was the most listened to Italian artist on Spotify. In 2022, she was the Artistic Director of Heroes Festival for a major project on respect for the environment. Her latest unreleased album 'Ritorno al Futuro / Back to the Future' released in February 2022 went straight to #1 on the FIMI/Gfk chart of best-selling records and also to #1 for vinyls. Active on the artistic, musical and humanitarian fronts, in June 2025 she was the creator and Artistic Director of the first floating festival in Friuli Venezia Giulia: 3 days of concerts on the water beloved by public and critics alike. Elisa is an Ambassador for Save The Children and an 'Ally' for the UN in the new Sustainable Development Goals campaign.

Achille Lauro

Concert on 21 August at 7pm at the Expo 2025 Osaka Matsuri Arena

Achille Lauro is one of the most iconic personalities of the contemporary Italian art scene. He has seven studio albums to his credit. A judge on X Factor Italia 2024, he set an all-time record in the history of the programme, taking his entire team to the final and will sit at the judges' table again in the 2025 edition. In 2025 he participated in the Sanremo Festival with the song Incoscienti giovani, which immediately topped the radio and streaming charts, certified platinum in a few weeks and the third best-selling song in the first half of 2025. His seventh album Comuni mortali, certified platinum, is a singer-songwriter's work in which Lauro expresses the most intimate and mature part of himself; the album immediately rose to the top of Spotify's Top Album Debut Global chart and reached the top of the FIMI chart within a week of its release, while the track Amor, certified gold, immediately reached the top of the EarOne radio chart. On 29 June and 1 July he took the stage for two sold-out dates at Rome's Circus Maximus, where he announced his first date at the Stadio Olimpico on 10 June 2026, already sold out after just a few days. In March 2026 he will be touring again all over Italy in arenas.

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