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Day 11: Dress rehearsals for semi-final two begins!

Posted by Riku on May 23, 2012 at 8:15 AM Comments comments (0)

After last night's exciting semi-final, it's now time to move on and concentrate on the second semi-final. Its dress rehearsals starts this afternoon.

 First Semi-Final: Stage photos (Photo: Thomas Hanses (EBU))

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Day 9: Dress rehearsals begin!

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM Comments comments (0)

Tomorrow the first semi-final will be competed in Baku. Before that, three dress rehearsals will take place, two of them today.

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The hosts of the 2012 song...

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Germany: Roman Lob charms the viewers just by standing still

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 10:15 AM Comments comments (0)

Germany has the honour to be the last country to rehearse at Baku Crystal Hall before the dress rehearsals.

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 Germany: First Rehearsal (Photo: Andres Putting (EBU))

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Spain, Azerbaijan: Strong women with beautiful ballads

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM Comments comments (0)

Eurovision Song Contest this year is full of women with strong voices, Sabina Babayeva and Pastora Soler are one of them.

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 Azerbaijan: Backstage second rehearsal (Photo: Andres Putting (EBU))

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Italy: "Europe, clap your hands!" - Nina gets better

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 8:30 AM Comments comments (0)

Nina Zilli just had her second, and last rehearsal before next Friday at Baku Crystal Hall. Today she was clearly better than yesterday.

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 Italy: Backstage (Photo: Andres Putting (EBU))

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France: Anggun count on topless men

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 7:55 AM Comments comments (0)

Next on stage was the French representative, Indonesian-born Anggun. In her stage show, she combines all sort of Eurovision elements like acrobatics and topless men. 

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Engelbert improves from yesterday

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 7:10 AM Comments comments (0)

Yesterday, the UK representative Engelbert Humperdinck had his first rehearsal at Baku Crystal Hall. Today he returned to the stage and slightly improved vocally.

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Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lithuania give a love-filled end to the second semi-final

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 6:00 AM Comments comments (0)

This Sunday we will see the last open rehearsals and before the direct finalists get on stage, Lithuania and Bosnia & Herzegovina had their second rehearsals.

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Norway: Tooji can sing and dance simultaneously

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 4:55 AM Comments comments (0)

Then it was Norway's turn to take over the Baku Crystal Hall. Tooji's second rehearsal was somewhat better vocally than the first one, a definite qualifier?

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Max Jason Mai wants to bring rock fans to Eurovision Song Contest

Posted by Riku on May 20, 2012 at 4:05 AM Comments comments (0)

Max Jason Mai, the Slovakian representative gave his second performance on stage this morning.

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 Slovakia: Backstage (Photo: Andres Putting (EBU))

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