News for tag: rehearsal
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On Sunday evening, Jade Ewen completed her second rehearsal for the United Kingdom. The UK team was very satisfied with the rehearsal. Now, the aim is to find the right balance between the performer and the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in the show of It's My Time.
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The act representing Germany in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, Alex Swings Oscar Sings, rehearsed for the second time today. Again, they delivered an elaborate and secure performance. The so-called Miss Kiss, who the lyrics are all about, was already confirmed to be Dita von Teese, but, just like yesterday, she did not yet appear in the rehearsal, so another girl had to act as her double.
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Anastasia Prikhodko just finished her second rehearsal. She performed her ballad Mamo with her powerful dark voice which made the entry sound even more dramatic. Anastasia wore a long white strapless dress, and her backing vocals long black and red dresses as well as red headscarves.
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French superstar Patricia Kaas took to the stage today for the second rehearsal and performance of the French entry Et S'il Fallait Le Faire.
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The Toppers are one of the biggest acts in the Netherlands and there was a big fuzz in the Dutch media when they were announced as the country's participants. The original formation of the Toppers included Gerard Joling - the Dutch singer in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest - but he decided to leave the band and was replaced by Jeroen van der Boom.
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The Estonian Urban Symphony displayed an ethereal second rehearsal on Sunday afternoon. The delegation reports minor changes for the performance of Rändajad, the main one being that the leading vocalist Sandra Nurmsalu now wore her stage dress.
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Ukrainian Anti-Crisis Girl Svetlana Loboda rehearsed her entry Be My Valentine for the second time today in Moscow. It was a show stopping performance on stage, and was filled with energetic dancing, gyrating and movement around the huge set.
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Kejsi Tola, the singer representing Albania in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, rehearsed her entry Carry Me In Your Dreams for the second time today. While the teen girl wore a short white tulle dress, her backing dancers looked like dreamlike creatures, one of them resembling a green spiderman!
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Today the Moldovan representatives in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest rehearsed for the second time. In spite of problems with the ear monitors they delivered a very cheerful and vocally convincing performance.
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Lithuania were the first country to rehearse today. Sasha Son and the Lithuanian delegation were very dissatisfied with their first rehearsal and made a number of changes today to the performance of their entry entitled Love.
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Today Denmark, Slovenia, Hungary, Azerbaijan and Greece had their second rehearsals and press conferences, the Big Four - Germany, UK, Spain and France - and Russia their first rehearsals.
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The Maltese entry What If We got a complete makeover by the production for Friday's rehearsal. The backdrop imagery was fully changed from the first rehearsal, on request from the Maltese delegation. But there was a new problem for Chiara on stage – the smoke went into her mouth.
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On Saturday night, with most people in the press centre away at delegation parties, Soraya from Spain completed the last rehearsal of the day. The version of the song La Noche Es Para Mí presented for Moscow has a more dramatic opening than the previously presented composition.
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The United Kingdom were the fourth of the Finalists to rehearse today. Jade Ewen is hopeful that she will be the one to change the United Kingdom's recent run of poor results in the Eurovision Song Contest, with the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Diane Warren song It's My Time.
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German duo Alex Swings, Oscar Sings stepped onto the huge Moscow stage for the first time today, performing Miss Kiss Kiss Bang. As one of the so called Big 4 countries, Germany is automatically qualified for the final alongside France, Spain, UK and host nation Russia. This year, the German song was chosen internally by broadcaster NDR as during the last 4 years, German entries in the Eurovision Song Contest have failed to reach the top 10 - will the modern swing song by Alex and Oscar have more success?
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Italy: Backstage
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United Kingdom: Backstage 2
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