Millions balance into Tel Aviv again for second Eurovision semi-final
The second semi-final in a 2019 Eurovision was promote live around a universe Thursday night from Tel Aviv, hours after Madonna finally sealed a agreement to perform during a grand final Saturday night.
The 4 Eurovision hosts – Erez Tal, Lucy Ayoub, Bar Refaeli and Assi Azar – greeted thousands of fans in Expo Tel Aviv and millions examination around a world.
“Shalom, erev tov, baruch haba; good dusk Europe, good morning Australia!” Azar admitted from a stage. “What’s up, celebration people?”
And, luckily for a 4 hosts, Madonna sealed her agreement progressing that day, withdrawal them giveaway to moment jokes about her arriving appearance.
Ayoub pronounced that, come Saturday night, a horde of outrageous stars will uncover adult on stage, “and one of them is a ultimate ‘Material Girl.’ She doesn’t like being preached to, though she goes by usually one name, and it starts with an M.”
Azar suggested Mariah Carey or Meryl Streep, before Ayoub reliable what roughly everybody in a venue already knew: “It’s Madonna!”
Madonna aside, there was copiousness of glitz, glorious and star energy on theatre Thursday night for a second semi-final, where 18 some-more countries – Armenia, Ireland, Moldova, Switzerland, Latvia, Romania, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Croatia, Malta, Lithuania, Russia, Albania, Norway, a Netherlands, North Macedonia and Azerbaijan – competed for a mark in a grand final.
The theatrics on Thursday didn’t utterly strech a same turn as a initial semi-final, that showcased Australia’s floating dancers and Iceland’s leather and flames, though there was copiousness of splendour on display.
Romania’s Ester Peony achieved amid heated pyrotechnics and unnatural bats, Denmark’s Leonora perched atop a hulk chair, Russia’s Sergey Lazarev belted out his strain in a unnatural deluge and Azerbaijan’s Chingiz sang while dual hulk drudge laser arms drew total on his chest.
And viewers were treated to another 18 “postcard” videos, featuring a general singers dancing during lifelike sites opposite Israel. Sweden’s John Lundvik skated down a boardwalk in Tel Aviv, Armenia’s Srbuk danced atop Masada, Keiino of Norway got down in a Judean Desert and Lazarev achieved parkour on a walls of Jerusalem’s Old City.
Once a low-pitched numbers were finish and a voting began, viewers were treated to an well-developed opening from The Shalva Band, a dear low-pitched organisation in Israel done adult mostly of immature adults with disabilities. The rope sung a delivery of “A Million Dreams” from a soundtrack of The Greatest Showman, finish with on-stage pointer denunciation interpretation, and lead thespian Dina Samteh reading a brief opening book from braille.
Here is a opening by The Shalva Band during a #Eurovision with HUGE support from a crowd. #DareToDream indeed. pic.twitter.com/xAgjdpsQKp
— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) May 16, 2019
The hosts also teased a far-reaching accumulation of acts display adult in a grand final, including mentalist Lior Suchard, who achieved a discerning pretence with 4 of a competing acts, Austrian Eurovision fable Conchita Wurst and Sweden’s Manz Zelmerlow.
And during a finish of a evening, 10 of a 18 countries competing in a second semi-final done it by to a grand final: North Macedonia, The Netherlands, Albania, Sweden, Russia, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and Malta.
That means that a Eurovision dreams of Armenia, Ireland, Moldova, Latvia, Romania, Austria, Croatia and Lithuania were cut brief in a early hours of Friday morning.
The winning countries from a second semi-final will join a 10 who modernized on Tuesday night: Greece, Belarus, Serbia, Cyprus, Estonia, Czech Republic, Australia, Iceland, San Marino and Slovenia, as good as a large 5 – Germany, Italy, Spain, France and a UK – and horde nation Israel.
And they’ll all share a theatre with nothing other than Madonna herself.
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