THEthe Children’s singing festival most famous and loved on TV – the Gold Zecchino 2025 – returns with three appointments: two semi-finals and one final scheduled for Sunday 30 November. The first semi-final – with the first 7 children competing – airs Friday 28 November at 5.05pm on Rai 1. On Saturday, at 5.10pm, it’s the turn of the second round of songs. Sunday, from 5.20pm to 8.00pm on Rai 1, grand finale with the re-listening of all the songs and the announcement of the winner (host Carlo Conti). The songs in competition are 14 songs, they range from pop to reggae and from rock to folk, and are also written by leading names in music, cinema and television.
Zecchino d’Oro 2025: where to see it, dates, presenters, jury
The two semi-finals scheduled for Friday and Saturday will be conducted by Carolina Benvenga and Lorenzo Baglioni while the final on Sunday by Carlo Conti. On Friday and Saturday viewers will listen to 7 songs per episode while in Sunday’s final all 20 little singers will perform (some songs are sung by two or three children). Judging a grand juryi, made up of guests and friends of the Antoniano, and one of childrenmade up of 20 children. To these will be added the vote of the Piccolo Coro dell’Antoniano.
In each semi-final the “Silver Zecchino” will be awarded to the most voted song while on Sunday we will start again from scratch with the voting mechanism to award the “Zecchino d’Oro” to the winning song.
The jury of the greats will be composed of: Carolina Rey, Valentina Persia and Orietta Berti for the first episode, Giulia Salemi and Rocío Muñoz Morales for the second, in which Orietta Berti also returns, while for the final will feature Flavio Insinna, Gabriele CirilliVincenzo Schettini and the hosts of the semi-finals Benvenga and Baglioni. Regular guests of all episodes: Topo Gigio and the Great Magician Alessandro Politiwith its fun magic tricks.
The songs of Zecchino d’Oro 2025lineup of singers
Boomer boom boom – Ana Estela and Gioele
The kiss in the pocket – Zoe
You can be – Lara
Ugh the multiplication tables – Alyssa
The wind takes care of it – Emma
The wolf Duccio – Mario
Long live the bees – Matthias
Lucky charm – Joel
Disco – Amber
Raffa the giraffeto – Gaia
Why why why – Victoria and Gionsi
Knock knock – Beppe and Sofia
The chickens are surfing – Joy and Diletta
Sing the count – Anna and Athena
Carlo Conti, host and artistic director of the “Zecchino d’Oro 2025”. (Photo Umberto Guizzardi)
Among the authors of the songs competing at the Zecchino d’Oro 2025 also Stefano Accorsi and Giuliano Sangiorgi
In fact, the Tuscan singer-songwriter appears among the artists who created the songs Enrico Nigiotti (The wolf Duccio), the comedian Andrea Agresti (Disco), the Leader of Negramaro Giuliano Sangiorgi (Raffa the giraffe) and also Stefano Accorsi (author of the text of Long live the bees).
The songs deal with different themesincluding the relationship with the digital and new technologiesthe importance of being yourself, the value of dreams and imaginationpeace, friendship, play and the importance of working together to protect the environment. To interpret the competing songs, always live, the Piccolo Coro dell’Antoniano directed by Margherita Gamberini. In addition to the official winner of the edition there will also be the “Rai Radio Kids Award”which will be assigned live to song best suited to listening on the radio.
Stefano Accorsi, one of the authors of the songs of the “Zecchino d’Oro 2025”. (Photo by Vincenzo Valente)
Exclusively previewed on RaiPlay from tomorrow they will be visible animated shorts of the 14 competing songsmade by Rai Kids, which from 1 December, they will be broadcast every day at 2.25pm on Rai Yoyo. All episodes will, as always, be complete with subtitles can be activated on page 777 of Teletext. The final will also be complete with audio description on the dedicated Rai 1 audio channel and through the specific function on RaiPlay. SFinally, on the dedicated RaiPlay channel, the final will be broadcast in its entirety with clear subtitles and also accessible through the LIS in the sung parts.
Antoniano’s fundraiser. How you can donate
Since 1954 Antoniano has been alongside adults and children in difficultythrough numerous activities and services, including the historic canteenwhich now serves over 90,000 meals a year and a Therapeutic Centre, to support young people and childrenthose with fragility.
This year too the Zecchino d’Oro 2025 supports Operation BreadAntonianus’ campaign to collect funds to support the 20 Franciscan canteens present in Italy and of the 5 active in the world (1 in Syria, 3 in Ukraine and 1 in Romania). The solidarity number is 45588just send a text message from a mobile phone or a landline call.