VIENNA, May 15 — Romanian metal, a Danish ode to clubbing and Australian star Delta Goodrem will fill the airwaves in the Eurovision grand final after making it though the...
! Plus, enjoy an additional FREE RM10 when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with a min. cash-in of RM100 today. T&Cs apply. VIENNA, May 15 — Romania n metal, a Danish ode to clubbing and Australia n star Delta Goodrem will fill the airwaves in the Eurovision grand final after making it though the second semi-final yesterday.
Contestants from 15 countries sang their hearts out in the Austrian capital to try to secure the last 10 places in Saturday’s showpiece extravaganza at the Wiener Stadthalle. Besides Australia, Denmark and Romania, which bookmakers place among the front-runners, Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Malta, Norway, and Ukraine live to fight another day. But it was Goodnight Vienna for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Luxembourg and Switzerland, who saw their Eurovision dreams crumble.
Eurovision is the world’s biggest live televised music event, typically reaching more than 150 million viewers, and Vienna 2026 is the 70th edition of the glitzy show where spectacle and drama go hand in hand. Thursday’s concert saw Switzerland’s Veronica Fusaro tangled up in red webbing, Londoner Antigoni singing the sultryBulgarian pop singer Dara got the party started with some high-energy and highly choreographed dancing onin a hall of mirrors that began swirling like a zoetrope.
, a song about a man “stuck on a wage/ In a rage” who breaks free, starting off being trapped in a lift in a jacket covered in yellow sticky notes. , which caused a minor furore in the Eurovision build-up over the lyrics.
However, singer Alexandra Capitanescu, a master’s student at the Faculty of Physics in Bucharest, defended the song.
“Unlike the classic heart, which represents romance or cute love, the anatomical heart suggests vulnerability... and emotions that feel intense, physical and almost painful,” she insisted.seemingly in a swirl of broken glass. , about missing one’s mother, ending with a maternal figure appearing on stage, briefly touching his face as he sang:Denmark’s Soren Torpegaard Lund, whose background is in musical theatre, is gaining traction withAustralia has appeared at Eurovision by invitation since 2015, finishing runner-up in 2016.
The 41-year-old had a string of international hits in the early 2000s and sangShe stood on top of a glittering piano then soared into the air on a riser as sparks fell from the ceiling, earning a roar from the crowd. The show featured a pre-filmed segment in a lecture theatre with presenter Victoria Swarovski rebutting the question: “Why are there only gays at the Eurovision now? Have they taken over?
” She went through the history of Eurovision embracing the LGBTQ community but declared “No takeover detected”. Eurovision director Martin Green told reporters beforehand: “It’s timely, and I think it is a message to the world that we, for 70 years, have given a voice to the voiceless and welcomed the disenfranchised. ” The 11,200 tickets for each concert at Austria’s biggest indoor arena were snapped up by fans from more than 75 countries.
They included overall favourites Finland, plus Greece, Israel, Sweden and Moldova. Five countries pulled out of this year’s Eurovision over Israel’s participation—the biggest political boycott in the show’s history dating back to 1956. In line with the final, this year, the semi-finals were decided by public televoting and also by professional juries. — AFP
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