Eurovision 2025 Rehearsal Day 5

Doron Lahav

12 months ago

The 5th day of rehearsals for Eurovision 2025 has just begun.
Taking the stage today, the 15 artists who compete as semi-finalists in semi-final 1 (excluding Spain, Italy, Switzerland) :

🇮🇸Iceland: VÆB – RÓA
🇵🇱Poland: Justyna Steczkowska – Gaja
🇸🇮Slovenia: Klemen – How Much Time Do We Have Left
🇪🇪Estonia: Tommy Cash – Espresso Macchiato
🇺🇦Ukraine: Ziferblat – Bird of Pray
🇸🇪Sweden: KAJ – Bara bada bastu
🇵🇹Portugal: NAPA – Deslocado
🇳🇴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
🇭🇷Croatia: Marko Bošnjak – 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.

This article will be updated throughout the day, so keep refreshing and visit us all day.
We will add more information and the clips, along with the rehearsals!

IMAGES CREDIT: Corinne Cumming, Alma Bengtsson and Sarah Louise Bennett

#1. 🇮🇸 Iceland: VÆB – RÓA

The staging will resemble the one we’ve seen in the “Söngvakeppnin 2025”.
The brothers will wear silver outfits labeled “VÆB” on top and their famous sunglasses. They will be accompanied by 3 backing dancers wearing silver overalls with jumpers and hats. The dancers wore white shirts with blue and red prints beneath the silver jumpers, that look like the Icelandic flag.
The main prop on stage will be a wooden boat; this time, it will be painted white.
The LED screen will present geometric shapes, landscapes, sea elements, as well as a lighthouse. The lighting is mainly blue and red
Towards the end, we see “VÆB” written on the LED walls in huge white font.
Just like in the national final, there will be smoke jets to elevate the performance.
They end the performance by dropping their microphones

#2. 🇵🇱Poland: Justyna Steczkowska – Gaja

The performance begins with Justyna descending from 2 ropes of the ceiling.
She is wearing a black catsuit with exposed shoulders. She is accompanied by 4 backing dancers: one female and 3 males. They are wearing black outfits, with skirts and high heels. The dancers have black fabric extensions over their arms, which create a wing effect.
The performance features a complex and bold dance routine.
The LED screens will present elements related to GAJA (the mother of Earth): Spinning planets, Lava, water, and neon lights. In some parts, we can see a huge circular light on the LED.
Towards the end, Justyna is lifted back up, while the LED walls show elements like Heaven, breathing dragons, and fire.
The performance features some pyro elements: From low smoke on the floor at the beginning, to fire jets in the choruses and the final note.

#3. 🇸🇮Slovenia: Klemen – How Much Time Do We Have Left

Klemen changed his outfit compared to the one from “EMA 2025”: He is wearing a black elegant jacket with shiny dots and a white shirt beneath.
The concept of the performance is quite similar to the one from “EMA 2025”.
The LED wall and front LED rectangle frame present shiny stars, whose color changes from blue to red and vice versa.
Klemen sings the middle part of the song upside down, supported by two backing dancers.
The lighting is mainly vivid orange and yellow. In the last part, we get circular camera shots around him, and later on, his wife, Mojca, standing back to back with him. She wears a simple white outfit.
It continues into a slow dance.
The performance is quite simple, intimate, and emotional.

#4. 🇪🇪 Estonia: Tommy Cash – Espresso Macchiato

The performance is quite similar to the one from “Eesti Laul 2025”. It starts with a dark scene, and a vertical red light of the LED, while he is holding a cup.
Later on, we can see a picture of a cafe with the writing “Winners Cafe”
Tommy is wearing the same outfit as in the national final: a dark blue, elegant suit, a white shirt beneath, and a long red tie. He has a sticky yellow note on his jacket with “I Love Eurovision” on it.
For the majority of the performance, Tommy is accompanied by 2 bodyguards in black outfits. During the chorus, we see the famous “spaghetti” dance moves, and then he is accompanied by 4 backing dancers.
LED walls show an alpine landscape that matches the mountains on the stage. The graphics are quite similar to the ones from “Eesti Laul 2025”: floating coffee cups, a table map, and some shapes in the colors of blue, beige, red, orange, etc.

#5. 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Ziferblat – Bird of Pray

Ukraine will fully utilize the 6-person limitation on stage: The three Ziferblat members will be accompanied by 3 female backing singers.
The performance from “Vidbir” has changed before landing in Basel.
The costumes are in shiny bright colors (pink, blue, and turquoise). The outfits, as in the song, are influenced by the 1970s: wide-legged/puff shoulders and lots of sparkle.
The backing singers wear golden pantsuits.
The island of forest from “Vidbir 2025” is no longer part of the performance. The LED walls present pink and green graphics that pulse and swirl along with the song.
The performance isn’t static, as the lead singer will walk through the stage.
There’s low smoke on the stage from the beginning. In the electric guitar part, the staging features fireworks.

#6. 🇸🇪Sweden: KAJ – Bara bada bastu

The KAJ trio will appear on stage in the same brown suits (with green/yellow/orange shirts).
They will be accompanied on stage by 3 dancers (2 female and 1 male). This is a decrease of one dancer, due to the 6-person limitation.
The basis of the performance is quite similar to that one from “Melodifestivalen 2025”.
The fire pit, which looks like a bonfire, will be one of the main elements. The sausage that is “cooked” in the fire is much bigger.
Behind them, we can see a log store which is converted into a sauna mode.
The backdrop LED walls present a forest-like view, including deer and Laba. Towards the end, it is replaced by neon light graphics and laser effects.
It starts with cold lights (blue colored) and in the second half, converted to warmer colors like orange and yellow.
The staging features pyro effects as well, from flames in the fire pit to flame jets in the middle eight. The performance ends with smoke jets that accompany the lasers. It ends with a festive of green, pink and yellow neon lights,

#7. 🇵🇹Portugal: NAPA – Deslocado

The performance is quite similar to the one from “Festival da Canção 2025”.
The 5 band members changed their outfits: They wear long-sleeved jackets or shirts in muted colors, like white, red, purple, etc.
The staging concept of a band performing a live show, where each instrumentalist is attached to the corresponding instrument.
The LED wall features views like floating clouds and animated skyscapes that change colour in sync with the front LED arch.
The whole vibe is of emotional Fado music.

#8. 🇳🇴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. In the second half, we’re able to see fire jets.

#9. 🇧🇪 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 his feet on the ground for his Eurovision 2025 performance.
He is accompanied by 3 dancers on stage, who wear red/black outfits in a similar style to the singer’s outfit.
The concept sees Red Sebastian appear 4 times on the stage (himself and his 3 backing dancers). They hold their microphone the same way, but he is the only one to sing.
We will have Red Sebastian‘s character on the LED floor, so the singer can interact with it in one part of the song

#10. 🇦🇿 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.

#11. 🇸🇲 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) built of panels reflecting 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, graffiti, and some sculptures. The floor is filled with artwork of blooming flowers that later looks like a neon wave that washes all.
The staging is based on short and fast camera shots, where Gabry’s lip-synching in one of the main shots.
The final chorus features flame jets and fireworks, while the song ends with fireworks
The lighting is colorful: gray, blue, orange, and pink.

#12. 🇦🇱 Albania: Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm

Beatriçe is wearing a red crepe satin dress 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.

#13. 🇳🇱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.

#14. 🇭🇷Croatia: Marko Bošnjak – 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 camera artwork also includes a shaking effect.
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.

#15. 🇨🇾 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 focuses 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.

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