Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Saturday May 2, 2026. The start of the rehearsals for Eurovision song contest 2026 in Vienna after building the stage and having the stand in rehearsals the past week after weeks and months of planning and rehearsing the staging, lights, choreography and special effects and creative ideas by the artists and their teams at home while Vienna team has been programming and putting everything on computers second by second as so it is these days. If back in the day the nervous bit was could the local orchestra play the song the way wanted now it is Can they handle the visuals the way the team has planned? Times change. As usual there are several teams or people doing the creative work for various teams and behind the stagings there are many already very familiar names. Let's have a look. Black Skull Creative , a British show-making company is behind several acts this year.   Albania is among them and there won't be the signature red color this year for Albania but a prop and subtit...

As we know Finland's entry Look away in the Eurovision song contest 2019 deals with climate change and worries it brings to our future like climate change. The national final staging already featured melting polar ice and rising waters. But that is nothing that is in store for Tel Aviv experience when yet secret 4D effects will rock the arena and its stage that is perfect for this kind of invasion. It has leaked YLEs team is working on dramatic special effects on screen as well: besides the familiar water tank the water will also start to rise and slowly fill the tv screen until it speeds up so that at the 3 minute mark it takes Sebastian and Darude under water underlining it's the future of most coastal metropoles if nothing is done and soon. 

Rockart design may not ring a bell but if I say they have taken care of the stagings for Conchita Wurst (winner 2014), The Common Linnets (runner up 2014) and Aminata (6th 2015) we are into something special. All those three acts are remembered for the outstanding but simple staging that lifted the song to unexpected heights and then for success. Italy may have suffered from non exisiting (read: Sanremo based) stagings since their return - except for experimenting with Emma and we all remember how that ended... Maybe we are in for a change this year? Nicoline Lindeborg Refsing, a Dane is in charge for Michielin. The staging will be apparently green, maybe both in color and idea as in trees and other green stuff. Francesca will be on stage alone, but she will have two backing singers hiding somewhere in the bushes out of sight. Sounds good.... Italy just got serious! Oh, and btw, Nessun grado di separazione has sold platinum in Italy after topping both sales and radio play charts...