Second chance for semifinalists today

by Richard West-Soley 69 views

After yesterday's second day of semifinalist rehearsals, all of the acts bar Iceland have had a chance to perform on stage. Today, we start again with the second round of rehearsals, whilst Iceland's Eirikur gets his first chance to perform.

The second rehearsal slots last only thirty minutes per country, as opposed to the forty minutes that each artist gets the first time round. However, Iceland receives its full allocation of forty minutes today due to the swap with Estonia's first rehearsal.

The full line-up for the day is as follows:

  • Bulgaria rehearsal 10:30 – 11:00
  • Israel rehearsal 11:00 – 11:30
  • Cyprus rehearsal 11:30 – 12:00
  • Belarus rehearsal 12:00 – 12:30
  • Iceland rehearsal 13:30 – 14:10
  • Georgia rehearsal 14:10 – 14:40
  • Montenegro rehearsal 14:40 – 15:10
  • Switzerland rehearsal 15:20 – 15:50
  • Moldova rehearsal 15:50 – 16:20
  • The Netherlands rehearsal 16:20 – 16:50
  • Albania rehearsal 16:50 – 17:20
  • Denmark rehearsal 18:20 – 18:50
  • Croatia rehearsal 18:50 – 19:20
  • Poland rehearsal 19:20 – 19:50

The press conference schedule runs like this:

  • Bulgaria 11:45 – 12:05
  • Israel 12:15 – 12:35
  • Cyprus 12:45 – 13:05
  • Belarus 13:15 – 13:35
  • Iceland 14:55 – 15:25
  • Georgia 15:25 – 15:45
  • Montenegro 15:55 – 16:15
  • Switzerland 16:35 – 16:55
  • Moldova 17:05 – 17:25
  • The Netherlands 17:35 – 17:55
  • Albania 18:05 – 18:25
  • Denmark 19:35 – 19:55
  • Croatia 20:05 – 20:25
  • Poland 20:35 – 20:55

As ever, your trusty esctoday.com team will be on hand to report live from the arena on all the latest news!

Richard West-Soley

Senior Editor

Richard's ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it's been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.