Spain’s king Felipe VI and his father Juan Carlos will be welcomed in Italy, with the Text of the Spanish anthem, which was under the dictator Franco usual. “Raise your arms,” the Version sang by a children’s choir. Italy’s President has apologized now. the
The Spanish king Felipe VI (51), and Ex-Monarch, Juan Carlos (81) have been welcomed in Italy Provided with a Version of the national anthem from the Franco era. The orchestra played on Tuesday at an event in the Opera house of Naples, the Spanish hymn with a Text that is used during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco between 1939 and 1975, and after the beginning of the democracy has been abolished. The Text was presented by a children’s choir.
In the Internet are circulating recordings from the unpleasant Moment. They show the Spanish king Felipe with a petrified face. After the anthem, there was applause, and immediately afterwards, but the Italian President Sergio mattarella at the Royal family for the diplomatic faux pas excused, reports Spanish media. The Opera Director had apologised also. This is a presidential spokesman confirmed in Rome.
“raise your arms”
The national anthem of Spain “marcha real” (“Royal March”) has no official Text. During the dictatorship of Franco, the anthem was but with verses of the poet José María Pemáns. Pemán had written the Text already in 1928, before the Spanish civil war. After the victory and the power of Franco’s takeover, but he exchanged a part of the verses, and it was this Version that made the Italian children.
“long live Spain! Raise your arms,” – said in the beginning, the franqui tables variant. After the death of Franco in 1975, Felipe’s father Juan Carlos of Spain had led in the democracy. Since then, there were different text versions of the anthem.
The former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, who ruled from 1996, had some of the Poet a draft of the work. It is at the beginning of “long live Spain!”, but “Spain, sing!”. Even then, there were other versions. The anthem has no official Text, and is therefore played mostly without Text.
