The second day of rehearsals for Eurovision 2025 has just begun.
Taking the stage today will be the counties that will perform in the second half of semi-final 1:
- 🇳🇴Norway: Kyle Alessandro – Lighter
- 🇧🇪Belgium: Red Sebastian – Strobe lights
- 🇦🇿Azerbaijan: Mamagama – Run With U
- 🇸🇲San Marino: Gabry Ponte – Tutta l’Italia
- 🇦🇱Albania: Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm
- 🇳🇱The Netherlands: Claude – C’est La Vie
- ðŸ‡ðŸ‡·Croatia: Marko BoÅ¡njak – Poison Cake
- 🇨🇾Cyprus: Theo Evan – Shh
This year, the format of the rehearsals will be different.
Therefore, images might be available later on.
However, the ESBEAT team will do its best to supply all the required information and coverage.
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IMAGES CREDIT: Corinne Cumming, Alma Bengtsson and Sarah Louise Bennett
#1. 🇳🇴Norway: Kyle Alessandro – Lighter
- Kyle wears a black outfit featuring armour. It is a bit different from the one in the national selection. The upper part of the costume, around his neck, is lighter and more silvery.
- The majority of the elements are borrowed from the “Melodi Grand Prix 2025”.
- He is accompanied by 3 male backing dancers, one of whom is Daniel Grindeland (an international breakdancing champion).
- The performance demonstrated a significant use of LED and lighting. The backdrop walls will show a series of post-apocalyptic mountain graphics.
- The performance is dynamic: Kyle dances through different parts, and moves along different parts of the stage (walkway and front stage).
- The Norwegian delegation uses lighting on the roof that lowers during the second half of the song. In the bridge, Kyle is between many spotlights.
- The front stage will include some flames. While in the second half, we’re able to see fire jets.
#2. 🇧🇪 Belgium: Red Sebastian – Strobe lights
- The red and black lighting from “Eurosong 2025” will also appear in Eurovision 2025, but on a larger scale. The lights will appear on the backdrop LED wall, as well as the front frame.
- He is wearing a red PVC suit with triangular shoulders (similar to the outfit in the official video). The fabric is smooth leather. He also wears red shoes.
- The moving platform from the “Eurosong 2025” won’t be part of the staging in Basel. Red Sebastian will stay with feet on the ground for his Eurovision 2025 performance.
- He is accompanied by 3 dancers on stage, who wear black outfits in a similar style to the singer’s outfit.
- We will have Red Sebastian‘s character on the LED floor, so the singer can interact with it in one part of the song
#3. 🇦🇿Azerbaijan: Mamagama – Run With U
- Mamagama will be accompanied by 3 backing dancers on stage: 2 females and one male.
- The band members wear stylish black leather suits with red accents, where Asaf and Hasan wear different kinds of jackets. Arif wears a sleeveless shirt
- Their dancers wear sparkly red and black catsuits.
- The lead singer Asaf will play the Saz (a traditional string instrument, long-necked lutes) as part of the performance.
- They stand in the middle of the stage, inside a lit halo on the floor that’s mirrored by a smaller one suspended from the roof.
- The LED walls add some animated figure graphics, which mirror the dance moves of the backing dancers.
- The performance ends with big fire jets.
#4. 🇸🇲 San Marino: Gabry Ponte – Tutta l’Italia
- The performance has changed since the national selection.
- The 2 backing dancers aren’t part of it anymore. Gabry wears a silver jacket and black shirt, and the performance focuses on him. He stands behind a deck (which resembles a DJ booth) that is built of panels that reflect lights. The identity of the 3 singers is still unknown, and their faces are covered with stylised masks.
- Gabry is accompanied by two instrumentalists: One on accordion and one on the tambourine.
- Backdrop LED walls show pulsing lights and graffiti.
- The final chorus features flame jets and fireworks, while the song ends with fireworks
- The lighting is colorful: gray, blue, orange, and pink.
#5. 🇦🇱Albania: Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm
- Beatriçe is wearing a red dress, made of crepe satin with sparkle on the bodice and lots of draping. She wears a white glove on one of her hands. Kolë is wearing a double-breasted military jacket, like a pea coat.
- The staging has quite changed since “Festival i Këngës 63”. The lighting is mostly lowered, especially the backstage lights.
- The LED walls present geometric shapes, some of them in red and black. Those shapes also appear on the frame LED and on the floor.
- There are black and white light boxes in the center of the stage, where Kolë stands. Beatriçe utilizes a bigger space of the stage, where she performs her vague dance moves and hand/arm choreography.
- There’s a use of flame jets in each chorus.
#6. 🇳🇱The Netherlands: Claude – C’est La Vie
- Claude is wearing a purple satin suit featuring silver decoration and pockets and black shoes.
- Two contemporary dancers accompany him, as well as 3 violin instrumentalists.
- The LED walls are used sparingly, as the Dutch delegation preferred to focus on other effects. One of these is the stage design in the final chorus: Pink and Blue flowers fill each part of the LED: Floor, wall and frame.
#7. ðŸ‡ðŸ‡·Croatia: Marko BoÅ¡njak – Poison Cake
- The staging from the national selection has completely changed!
- Marko wears a full Bordeaux cape outfit with fur around the shoulders. Beneath, he wears a blue and white outfit. 4 dancers accompany him and wear matching blue and white outfits with frills and ribbons.
- The lighting creates a dark, intimate, and mysterious atmosphere. The lights criss-cross each other and intersect green and red clouds and flames.
- The main props is a cauldron in the middle of the stage, where Marko and the dancers cast their spells into for the first verse and chorus.
- In the second half of the song, they step forward to the front frame LED.
- Towards the end, Marko removes the upper cape and reveals his blue and white outfit.
- The staging includes low fog, while we can see flames and fire jets on the front stage. The smoke fill the LED wall, while the lights give more of techno vibes.
#8. 🇨🇾 Cyprus: Theo Evan – Shh
- The performance features 2 main props: Two scaffolding towers.
- 4 male dancers accompany Theo on stage. All of them wear black trousers and black vests.
- The performance starts with Theo and 2 dancers creating the shape of a famous mysterious figure via a silhouette.
- As the song progresses, the scaffolding towers shift positions and create different forms. Theo and the dancers move the scaffolding towers as part of the choreography, which can be described as a gymnastic routine.
- The performance features dynamic visuals and graphics, as well as diverse lighting: From black and white to red and black, and then black and white.
- The camera work focus on the different figures, but on Theo as well.
- The “secret” figure which the song refers to is Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, as we can see Theo with open arms and 2 dancers behind him.
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland on the 13th, 15th, and 17th of May 2025.
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