Eurovision Song Contest 1956: Difference between revisions

Rehearsals in the contest venue with the competing artists and the orchestra began on 21 May 1956, and the contest was held on 24 May 1956, beginning at 21:00 [[Central European Time|CET]] (20:00 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]) with an approximate duration of 1 hour 40 minutes.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2012|pp=93–96}}<ref name="ESC1956"/> The event was hosted in [[Italian language|Italian]] by [[Lohengrin Filipello]].<ref name="ESC1956"/> This remains the only time in which the contest was hosted by a solo male presenter, and one of only two contests not to feature a female presenter, alongside the {{escyr|2017||2017 contest}} held 61 years later.<ref name="Diamond" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Paul |title=Let's hear it for the boys! Meet the hosts of Eurovision 2017 |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/let-s-hear-it-for-the-boys-meet-the-hosts-of-eurovision-2017 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424001032/https://eurovision.tv/story/let-s-hear-it-for-the-boys-meet-the-hosts-of-eurovision-2017 |archive-date=24 April 2017 |date=27 February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally this would remain the only contest to feature a male presenter for 22 years, when the {{escyr|1978||1978 contest}} featured a male and female presenting duo.{{sfn|O'Connor|2010|p=72}} During the [[Intermission|interval]] between the final competing act and the announcement of the winner, performances by {{lang|fr|Les Joyeux Rossignols|i=unset}} and {{lang|fr|{{ill|Les Trois Ménestrels|fr}}|i=unset}} featured to entertain the audience.{{sfn|O'Connor|2010|p=216}} Upon the announcement of the results, only the winning song was named, with the full breakdown of the jury votes not revealed.<ref name="ESC1956" /> The winning artist then returned to the stage for a [[Reprise#Winner reprise|reprise performance]] of the winning song to end the broadcast.<ref name="reglement" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2012|pp=96–101}}

 

 

== Participating countries ==