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Christmas in Italy Duration: 9‘51‘‘ Emmerlich: This is Barbara Zanetti. Welcome! B. Zanetti: Good evening! Emmerlich: You come from North Italy, also called South Tyrol. B. Zanetti: That is correct. Emmerlich: Italy expands from the North to the South from the Alps to Africa. I am sure that Christmas traditions vary widely there. B. Zanetti: In Naples, you celebrate Christmas in the festively decorated streets with fireworks. The children go from house to house with a golden cardboard star and a lighted nativity play, singing carols and collecting money. Sicily celebrates in a totally different way. You think more about how you will be able to pay for the Christmas presents. That is to say that Advent is the time for playing cards. Once a week, the family plays poker together. And on Christmas Eve..... Emmerlich: And then you take your family’s money away? B. Zanetti: No, it is simply a game you play with your family. Emmerlich: Aha. B. Zanetti: And 24 hours before Christmas Eve, they have to fast, until after the mess you attend with your family. That is when Christmas begins for Italians on the 25th December. South Tyrol has a lot in common with Sicily. The nativity play is very important, as is the Christmas tree which is decorated festively on Christmas Eve. Emmerlich: And in Italy you celebrate Christmas with your family and Easter with whoever you want. B. Zanetti: “Natale con i toi, pasque con qui voi“ 1 Emmerlich: What kind of carols do you sing in Italy? Do they differ? B. Zanetti: People in South Tyrol also sing “Holy night, silent night“, „O, Christmas tree“, „Es werd schon glei dumper“ (It is getting dark). A really old carol is “Geh...., Kind erzähl mir“ (Child go ahead and tell me) and also “Andachtsjodler“ is very popular in South Tyrol. Emmerlich: “Oh Du fröhliche“ stems from Sicily, by the way. Everybody always assumes that it is a German carol, but that is not true. B. Zanetti: I just remembered something about Sicily. Another Saint was born there, Saint Lucia. Emmerlich: A saint that is actually worshiped in Sweden. B. Zanetti: That is true and she brings presents to the good children on December 13. In Italy you get presents throughout the whole of Advent! Emmerlich: And what present do we get now? B. Zanetti: I would like to give you two songs from South Tyrol which I will sing in a South Tyrolean accent. And then an Italian carol that comes from Portugal and is called “Adeste fidele“ that I will sing in the Italian version “Venite fedeli“. Emmerlich: We cannot wait, go ahead! Ladies and Gentleman: “Es wird schon gleich dunkel, es wird schon gleich Nacht, drum komm ich zu Dir her mein Heiland, auf die Wacht (It is getting dark, night approaches and that is why I come to you),“ sung by Barbara Zanetti. 2 .