The Stage

[AuroraBorealis]

It's very different, and we have to praise the originality of it! Personally I do quite like it

 

[ZoboCamel]

Ooh, I'm liking this. As others are saying, the finished product often looks rather different to these shots - and I already think that the images look far better than the promo video - but if they can get anywhere near those promo images, it should be a really, really pretty stage. Nice and big, cool and modern, quite unique, the LED screens seem crisp and well-positioned, there's ample camera room... this is probably the happiest I've been with a stage reveal since I started following all the pre-contest stuff in 2013. The end result might not live up to the plans, but that's always an issue; for now, colour me excited.

 

[SiXo]

I really like it! It could look really good on TV!

 

[Sabiondo]

I like the stage, a very modern design for our era!

 

[aef]

I rather like it but I think it doesn't fit to the "Come together" theme...

 

[Chorizo]

It looks like an Oprah talkshow stage

Didn't someone say the exact same thing last year? Was that you?

 

[anto475]

I do really like it, I hope it's executed well in real life. My only concern is that it will be full of special features that won't get used (i.e. Vienna's kinetic sculpture last year) or will only get used during the interval acts or by one or two countries (Copenhagen's dancers inside the windows, Malmo's rising stage)

 

[Chorizo]

I have to say when watching the video my first reaction was that I didn't like it but I changed my mind when seeing the pictures. On the pictures the stage looks really awesome.

It's good to have confirmation for the green room location. In the video, the empty space in front of the stage made it look awkward and deserted but when you fill up that space with people, like in the pictures, it looks much better. The venue is also much better than in Vienna. The Stadthalle in Vienna was built in the 50s, its ceiling is rather low and it looked small because there were no seats behind the green room. In Stockholm, there aren't any of these problems, so the venue should look much larger on TV.

They kept the tradition seemingly established after 2010 to have square stage designs in the even years and circular stages in the uneven years, so we have a welcome change after last year's round design.

It looks like there is a large LED background and floor. Hopefully we will really get LEDs and not just a larger projection surface than in 2013.
Assuming it's LEDs, it looks really very promising. I wonder if the stage can play any special tricks that aren't obvious from these renderings, comparable to the last two years, when it turned out the stages could do more than we thought at first.

So far I think Copenhagen had the best stage and Vienna had one of the best stages as well. This looks like it will be one of the best stages too. Since 2009, only the stages in 2010 and 2013 looked really bad and cheap. It seems, SVT averted another disaster.

It's good to see that they have plastic elements in the front in this stage design as well and that it's not just a flat background. Since the ceiling is much higher in Stockholm than in Vienna, it's possible to make it all much larger. Last year's stage was limited by the low ceiling. The way it is done now, looks like they took last year's eye, made it rectangular, higher and opened it up on the sides and on top.

So I have high expectations now.

 

[hdplus]

I love it Hopefully the artists will use it. I like this one much better than the one from Vienna (though I think this one was good too).

 

[sigi]

Didn't someone say the exact same thing last year? Was that you?

That was not me!!!!
But I must confess that i copied the text from the 2015 thread. FilipFromSweden wrote that

 

[Chorizo]

That was not me!!!!
But I must confess that i copied the text from the 2015 thread. FilipFromSweden wrote that

Oprah has great staging!

 

[GlamSIMorous]

What I love is that Sweden pulls it off even with a budget that is not super big. They slaaaay!

 

[popavapeur]

far more better than 2013 and last year. I really like it, very beautiful
My only fear is the random way the screens look like in the background, like they're shattered (and that reminds me 2013 as well) i really like when they're playing with screens (as in 2014) so wait and see but it's already a good stage, great job.

 

[sigi]

Oprah has great staging!

yeah that

 

[CPV4931]

I really like the revelaed design :-) The stage doesn´t seem to be too small or too large and fits perfectly into the arena.

But I hope there won´t be so much space between the audience and the stage.

 

[FilipFromSweden]

Didn't someone say the exact same thing last year? Was that you?

That was me and I completely disagree with what sigi is saying, last year was really nothing special (except for the light bulbs in the air)

 

[sigi]

That was me and I completely disagree with what sigi is saying, last year was really nothing special (except for the light bulbs in the air)

I like the 2016 stage design but it is more Oprah W style than the 2015 one...

 

[Dessi]

Oh, it's...OK...

 

[Stargazer]

I loved our 2013 stage, my favorite ESC stage so far, but I'm not completely sold on the 2016 one. It's too... I don't know.. square? I do like the broken-up LED screen behind it though.

 

[lavieenrose]

I'm tentatively impressed!