Eurovision 2022: Ukraine, Norway and Greece consolidate as favorites after qualifying in the first semifinal

Start the competition in 66th Eurovision Song Contest with the top ten finalists, who will join the members of the Big 5 in the grand final next Saturday the 14th. Ukraine and Greece retain their chances to win the UER music contest after achieving classification in the first semifinal this Tuesday along with Switzerland, Armenia, Iceland, Lithuania, Portugal, NorwayGreece, Moldova and the Netherlands.

Kalush Orchestrathe band that represents Ukraine, has filled the stage of the PalaOlímpico in Turin with emotion and charisma with their song ‘Stefania’, receiving a standing ovation from the public at a very difficult time for their country due to the war, while Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjoord he stood out for the sobriety and delicacy with which he interpreted ‘Die Together’ (To die together), a ballad very much in the style of Romeo and Juliet, carrying the Greek flag.

For its part, Norway was also right with its strategy of becoming a ‘Mask Singer’ on the Eurovision 2022 stage with subwoofer. The mysterious yellow wolves made it to the grand finale after they made the entire audience dance with ‘Give that wolf a banana’remaining within the 10 favorites to achieve the glass microphone without revealing their true identities yet.

Instead, AlbanianLatvia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark and Austria They had worse luck in this first semifinal of Eurovision 2022, since they were eliminated as the seven countries with the lowest scores by the professional juries and the audience with the right to vote in this gala.

The most outstanding elimination has been that of Ronela. After the controversy that has been generated during this week of rehearsals for various reasons, the representative of Albanian is left without end after his interpretation of ‘Sekret’a powerful ethnic pop theme, with hints of traditional music and sung in Albanian.

A gala in memory of Raffaella Carrá

In addition to the results, this first Eurovision 2022 gala has also had several highlights such as the tribute to Raffaella Carrá, the main promoter of Italy returning to the festival in 2011 after more than 13 years of absenceperformed by Alessandro Cattelan, Laura Pausini and Mika with the Spanish version of ‘Fiesta’, one of their greatest hits.

This first semifinal has also featured the performance of diodate, which featured the controversial moving kinetic sun. The artist made up for himself by interpreting ‘Fai Rumour’the song with which he was going to represent Italy in the UER music contest in the 2020 edition, which was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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This coming Thursday 18 countries will take the stage to fight for one of the last 10 passes to the final which will be put into play in the second semifinal of Eurovision 2022. In addition, the musical contest will show a minute with Chanel rehearsing with ‘Slo mo’, the song with which she will represent Spain in this edition.

This has been the broadcast minute by minute of the first semifinal of Eurovision 2022.