PREVIEW: MILAN: Colleague Lorenzo Fiori reports on the Christmas season celebration with city lights and La Scala's opening with a Verdi drama. More tonight.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with my good colleague Lorenzo Fiore. He's in Milan. |
| 0:06.3 | This is the eve of the Christmas season lights being lit up in the Duomo Square. |
| 0:11.9 | The same time, the Scala season opens with a Verdi opera. |
| 0:16.9 | And then Lorenzo will host a dinner at his club for everybody celebrating the beginning of Christmas season. |
| 0:25.2 | Lorenzo Fiore on and also an important Saints Day in Milan. |
| 0:31.0 | Lorenzo Fiore on Milan at Christmas time. |
| 0:34.4 | More of this later tonight. |
| 0:36.4 | Thank you, John, and I'm proud of this question because |
| 0:39.7 | Milan is my town. I am in my club. Tomorrow night, we will host the Galadina of the Prima at Lascala |
| 0:47.9 | on the day of our patron, Sant'Ambrosio, which is, of course, the opening of the Christmas |
| 0:53.2 | season here in Milan, plenty of Christmas |
| 0:56.3 | lights of nice Christian ball downtown in the Cathedral Square, and tomorrow night there will |
| 1:02.0 | be the switch on of the lights of the big Christmas tree in front of the Duomo, our cathedral. |
| 1:09.5 | Maybe we will have a bit of snow. |
| 1:11.1 | I don't know, but next time I can report about it. |
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