The stage

[revallsay]

I like the eye idea, but that's all I like about that. No catwalk... I hope there'll be a screen behind the performers, like it was this year.

 

[Leydan]

I'm not really feeling it from the design right there... It looks like they will they're singing in a cave. I'm sure it will be better when we see it all set up. I remember opinions being divided on the stage in 2014 and tbh I think it was best stage we've ever had.

 

[Milos-BC]

I love this design! Hopefully it works out in practice as well.

 

[EscGeek]

I like "the eye look" but it looks so small... i think no one will ever top Moscow 09

 

[Mlyn]

Moscow was a hilarious fairground

 

[sigi]

I like the eye idea, but that's all I like about that. No catwalk... I hope there'll be a screen behind the performers, like it was this year.

Yes there is a big LED wall behind the performers....

 

[QwaarJet]

Stadthalle is not Baku Crystal Hall nor Düsseldorf arena.

They chose that arena and will have to accept it's limitations and the reactions to that. Regardless, the stage could have been much bigger than it is looking to be. It's just too small for something the scale of Eurovision. Copenhagen did it perfectly.

 

[bURN]

Not bad!

 

[pinkchiffon]

Like the shapes, but I'm not sure about how the stage is completely encapsulated, could be limiting for both the audience and filming.

 

[FilipFromSweden]

This stage looks quite cheap, like a new version of the Helsinki one. This stage is in my opinion not very suitable for Eurovision, more like a tv-show/talkshow thing-y and to be honest I expected more. I like the creativity with the pillars, but they should have gone further like in Oslo 2010, making it this way adding just a bit of backdrop makes it look really cheap. I even think the Malmö 2013 design was much more creative and inovative.

All in all, the stage from Copenhagen makes both the 2013 and 2015 stages look bad

 

[greece]

Wow it's actually very impressive. It kinda reminds me Finland's but a bit bigger. Well I really like small stages. And catwalk isn't really such a big deal.


Actually it's better without catwalk.


This may be one of my fave stages :3

 

[Kairit]

Ooh, looks cool! I like something different.

 

[Mlyn]

For TV I guess it's cool, that the stage is so deep. It may allow spectacular scenes from stageview or from behind the artist towards the audience. For the live audience I am not sure, if that's a pleasant option. They might watch the show on the screens in the hall.

What it does lack though is authenticity. There's nothing Austrian-fashioned about that stage, yet another LED-smartphone-display. I hope for some classical elements. And I don't see how that stage supports the theme. Theme, logo and stage seem detached from each other.

"Big Brother is watching you" might transport more coherence.

The stage job was done rather quick, roughly in 3-4 weeks.

 

[marty]

to me it looks great. might be clever to have seats not too close to the stage. i did not expect orf to bring such a gigantic stage.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

So great!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Romeo]

it reminds me of the 2003 stage

 

[Leydan]

it reminds me of the 2003 stage

That year just sends shivers down my spine.

Jemini... Jemini... Jemini... Jemini...

 

[Romeo]

That year just sends shivers down my spine.

Jemini... Jemini... Jemini... Jemini...

my favourite memory from 2003 was when Lys Assia said "people have to come to Cyprus, its a wonderful town" hahaha

 

[Sim]

I like the concept, I just hope for the people who paid for the center standing block, that they can see the stage...

But minor changes can always be done, the rest is great

 

[Mlyn]

Actually this is going to be one of the biggest stages so far.

I will collect all the data about recent stages I can get to prove it. But Malmö or Düsseldorf were way smaller.