Eurovision 2025 Live from Basel: Semi-final 1 Dress rehearsal and Jury Show take place

Eurovision 2025 Live from Basel: Semi-final 1 Dress rehearsal and Jury Show take place
Monday, 12 May 2025

  • The primary Eurovision 2025 week has commenced with the Semi-final one dress rehearsals taking place in St' Jakobshalle Arena along . 

    As Eurovision week is unwinding ,this evening the Jury rehearsal show for the Semi Final 1 competing acts will take place in St'Jakobshalle in Basel. Switzerland. 

    The 15 competing acts will take the stage in addition with the pre-qualified finalists from Italy, Spain and the host nation Switzerland. All acts will perform entries which will be watched by the 18 national juries.

    The Jury show in the past edition was of significant importance as the jury votes counted as the 50% of the score with the rest 50% been deteremined by the televoting. Howerver, this no longer the case as the jury voting in the Semi-Finals like last year will only be used unless a valid audience vote has not been recorded or needs to serve as  a valid voting results.  

    Photo credit: EBU/Sarah Louise Bennett

    This evening's juring show will not be broadcaster live or can the onsite press film any part of the show as it's exclusively aired for the national juriies. 

     

    Dress rehearsal #1

    Ahead of the jury show a Dress rehearsal is set for 15:30 CEST which is accessable to the press and will give one more opportunity to the competing acts to get even more prepared for tomorrow's live show.  

     

    Rest of the World Voting

    As like from last year's edition the Rest of the World fans will have a say in the outcome of the show. In order to sychronize the different time zones,  the Rest of the World online vote will open from the end of the Jury Show this evening. The vote will be open until the end of the voting window during the live broadcast of Semi-Final One on May 13.

    Fans from non participating countries will have the chance to cast their votes once the prewatch a clip of all of the cometing entries. 

     

    Running order

    Here is the running order for tonight's show:

    1. Iceland – VÆB – RÓA
    2. Poland – Justyna Steczkowska – GAJA
    3. Slovenia – Klemen – How much time do we have left
    4. Estonia – Tommy Cash – Espresso macchiato
    5. Ukraine – Ziferblat – Bird of pray
    6. Sweden – KAJ – Bara bada bastu
    7. Portugal – NAPA – Deslocado
    8. Norway – Kyle Alessandro – Lighter
    9. Belgium – Red Sebastian – Strobe lights
    10. Azerbaijan – Mamagama – Run with U
    11. San Marino – Gabry Ponte – Tutta l’Italia
    12. Albania – Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm
    13. Netherlands – Claude – C’est la vie
    14. Croatia – Marko Bošnjak – Poison cake
    15. Cyprus – Theo Evan – Shh

     

    News Source: EBU/Eurovision.tv

    Image: Eurofansradio