It has been confirmed by the EBU, that the construction of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest stage is underway. In an Instagram post from the official Eurovision Song Contest page, they showed images and videos of the stage coming together.
What we know about the Eurovision 2024 stage.
We previously reported on images of the proposed staging early this year. The stage is being designed by Florian Wieder and Fredrik Stormby.
The stage comes with movable LED cubes, LED floors, light, video and stage technology, to provide some visuals, with a cross shaped stage in the middle to provide ‘a unique 360-degree experience that the audience and viewers will get to experience in May’
Florian Wieder, Production Designer, who is known to Eurovision fans for designing numerous stages for the contest and Fredrik Stormby, Light and Screen Content Designer were the ones who came up with the concept.
Speaking about the stage design, Ebba Adielsson, the Executive Producer of Eurovision 2024 comments:
“It is with great pride that we present our vision of the stage and lighting design for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. We have not seen anything like this before at Eurovision and the concept gives us endless opportunities to create unique spaces and expressions for both the competing artists and the opening and interval acts. Florian and Fredrik’s creation is simply fantastic and it will be so much fun to see the end result!’
Ebba Adielsson on the Eurovision 2024 stage design.
The story of Eurovision 2024 so far
The Nordic country will host the 68th edition of the competition. This is after Loreen’s historic win at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool. One month after the 2023 contest took place, SVT revealed the first names of the Core Team that will work on the competition. The team was completed in September.
In July 2023, after a shortlist of four cities, it was announced that Malmö will host Eurovision 2024. The city will spend up to €2.5 million for the contest. Additionally, they will have 600 volunteers working for the show.
As for the upcoming contest, there will be 37 countries participating. Luxembourg will be returning, whilst Romania withdraws. ‘United By Music’ will be the permanent slogan for the contest. The upcoming contest will have ‘The Eurovision Lights’ as the theme art. The stage, designed by Florian Wieder and Fredrik Stormbywas revealed in December. In late March, the running orders for the semi-finals were revealed.
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News Source: EBU
Photo Credit: EBU
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