The 3rd day of rehearsals for Eurovision 2026 has just begun.
Taking the stage today will be the counties that will perform in the first half of semi-final 2, excluding the automatic qualifiers.
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Day 4: Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
First rehearsal Batch 4 (Semi-final 2, Second half without automatic qualifiers)
| Country | Rehearsal Time (CET) |
| Cyprus | 10:30 – 11:00 |
| Latvia | 11:10 – 11:40 |
| Denmark | 11:50 – 12:20 |
| Australia | 12:45 – 13:15 |
| Ukraine | 13:25 – 13:55 |
| Albania | 15:00 – 15:30 |
| Malta | 15:40 – 16:10 |
| Norway | 16:20 – 16:50 |
1.🇨🇾 Cyprus: Antigoni – Jalla
- Antigoni is dressed in a short, white, beaded Aphrodite dress.
- She is accompanied by 5 dancers.
- The main prop is a very large table; there are some chairs on it as well. The Cypriot team will walk along the table and perform some choreography on it. The table has some plates on it, delivering a Greek tavern in its realness.
- The table includes a runner made of an LED strip, which will enable them to create the text “you want more?.
- At a certain point, they will leave the table and utilise the catwalk, while the staging will feature fire and pyro elements.
- The backdrop LED features giant, ancient pillars lit in blue.
2. 🇱🇻 Latvia: Atvara – Ēnā
- Atvara will perform alone on stage.
- The performance has remained quite faithful to the one from “Supernova 2026”
- She is wearing a similar black outfit to the one she had in the national final, but gems sewn onto her dress have multiplied, with them now spreading further down the side to her waste and almost covering her left arm.
- The staging exploits the stage size, and therefore the swirling glass effects have been extended and run on.a greater scale.
3. 🇩🇰 Denmark: Søren Torpegaard Lund – Før Vi Går Hjem
- The basis of the performance is quite similar to the one we’ve seen on “Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026″.
- The aquarium box was shipped as it is to Vienna!
- Søren will perform on stage, accompanied by 5 dancers
- Søren is wearing black leather trousers, topped with an aquamarine silk chiffon shirt. Later on in the performance, we will have an outfit reveal, which is executed as the removal of the top part and showing black mesh top underneath
- Søren interacts with the aquarium box during the performance. He performs outside of it at the beginning, showing his back to the audience. Later on, he climbs on top of it and is pulled down inside by the dancers.
- Inside the box, red tube lights intensify in sync with the song’s progression, creating a stifling, high-pressure atmosphere by the second chorus. This heat serves as a visual climax to the engaing choreography, which has notably been dialed up since the first verse.
- As he finally emerges from the glowing enclosure toward the end of the set, the stage floor and LED screens are engulfed in a sudden, swirling storm.
- For the final 20 seconds, the digital landscape ignites into a blazing inferno, bringing the performance to a scorching conclusion
4. 🇦🇺 Australia: Delta Goodrem – Eclipse
- A giant, sideways crescent moon will be the main prop on stage.
- Delta is wearing a custom couture gown, which is adorned with approximately 7,000 Swarovski crystals. Around 500 hours were invested in making it happen.
- Harpist will join Delta on stage.
- Delta’s performance follows a stunning evolution from a lunar landscape into a solar spectacle, building toward a climax that elevates the song’s concept to breathtaking heights.
- She’s debuting a specialized pyrotechnic effect that won’t be seen in any other act at Vienna 2026!
5. 🇺🇦 Ukraine: LELÉKA – Ridnym
- LELÉKA will be on stage together with the Bandura player Yaroslav Dzhus.
- LELÉKA is wearing a white dress over white trousers, with small strands of fabric layered and attached in a way that responds well to her movements. The fabric will support her movements.
- The performance starts with her stepping on a white catwalk to walk across and proceed to the Bandura player.
- After the first chorus has been performed, the staging becomes dark, with LELÉKA taking centre stage and shifting all the focus towards her.
- Thereafter, the staging becomes colorful again. We will see a special visual moment when the long high note is performed.
- The graphics will be quite dramatic, with a red theme at the end, like the closing of a theatre curtain.
6.🇦🇱 Albania: Alis – Nân
- Alis is wearing a black with a shimmering gem finish.
- The scene itself is dark and mysterious.
- At the beginning the performance, Alis is on his knees before rising among clouds of smoke.
- The backdrop LED video presents many women behind him. They symbolize Albanian women and mothers; some of them are wearing traditional Albanian costumes.
- Their appearances are interspersed with alternative graphics – the sons singing along to Nân, assuring their mothers that all will be well and that this is just how things are right now.
- His performance will feature English-language subtitles on screen to make the story more understandable to the viewers.
- Some elements will enhance the performance.
7.🇲🇹 Malta: AIDAN – Bella
- Aidan’s outfit is a blend of Western Americana and 70s rockstar style, featuring a mixed-media vest crafted from black denim and ornate, studded leather panels. The look is anchored by slim-fit leather trousers detailed with side-seam fringe and metallic conchos for a dramatic, elongated silhouette. Finished with gold-crested hardware and pointed-toe boots, the outfit perfectly captures a bold, “stage-ready” modern cowboy aesthetic.
- The performance features a massive prop: A giant arched construction that represents classic architectural design with a modern glow-up. This is probably the biggest prop of the year.
- In some part of the performance, the prop takes the form of a huge zoetrope with shots from above showing us the Bella subject of the song dancing around our performer.
- The tornado of red rose petals from the national final will be part of the performance as well. It is upgraded via the use of a steadicam.
- The final minute of the performance is delivered in one shot. At a certain point, it gives the illusion of partaking in a romantic dance with the viewers. The prop is engineered for construction, which means that AIDAN is rotating quite rapidly.
8.🇳🇴 Norway: JONAS LOVV – YA YA YA
- The performance remained quite similar to the one from the national selection.
- JONAS LOVV will be on stage with his band crew. He is wearing a pair of high-waisted pants with 90 diamond-shaped panels that the trousers, fashioned out of black leather and sequins in a patchwork technique. He will perform shirtless.
- The backdrop will show “YA YA YA” in big letters.
- A huge row of red lights is lowered and raised throughout to maximize the view of what’s unfolding on stage.
- The performance will focus on the singer’s charisma, and some light effects (including strobe lights).
- During the final 20 seconds of the performance, JONAS is pointing and posturing among the pyro, ending the performance in a triumphant pose in which the light behind him paints him as a revered rock god.
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