Opatija is gearing up for an exciting year in 2025 as the grand finale of the Dora festival, Croatia’s renowned Eurovision selection, will take place on March 2, 2025. This announcement was confirmed during a session of the Opatija Tourism Board Assembly. The meeting was chaired by Mayor Fernando Kirigin, who also serves as the president of the Tourism Board. …
Excitement is building for DORA 2025 as Croatia’s national broadcaster, HRT, has unveiled the lineup of artists and their songs for this year’s competition! As previously reported, the festival broke their own record with an impressive 221 applications in the running for the Croatian Eurovision representative in Basel, showcasing the skyrocketing interest after Baby Lasagna’s massive success in Eurovision 2024. …
The final day for submitting entries to the Croatian broadcaster (HRT) has just recently passed, and already the broadcaster could share that a record high interest, in taking part in the national final. DORA 2025 The success of Baby Lasagna has truly had a great impact in the Croatian music market, as the Croatian broadcaster could announce that a total …
After the massive success at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, the Croatian raising star Baby Lasagna (Marko Purušić) has announced Meow Back Tour 2025. As a reminder, Baby Lasagna was the televote winner, getting 337 points from the audience and fans. However, that wasn’t enough to take the trophy to Croatia for the first time since its …
For the second year in a row, the semi-finals were purely decided by the televote – well, with the exception of San Marino – however, the final is still decided by both the jurors and the televote, which has been the case, since 2009 now. Once again this year, the EBU revealed the full list of all the jurors from …
Congratulations are in order to Switzerland and Nemo, the winner of this edition of the Eurovision Song Contest! They made history as the first non-binary singer to claim victory in the contest, captivating audiences with their song “The Code,” a fusion of drum-and-bass, opera, rap, and rock, which delves into the journey of self-discovery as a non-binary individual. Upon receiving …
Just like that, the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest has started, the show was seen and in the end, a decision was made. However, our focus for now, will be on the 10 countries that made it out of the first semi-final. Let’s finally dive into their draw. Who goes where? As a reminder, congratulation to all 10 qualifiers, but also …
Today rehearsals continue within the Malmö arena, with all fifteen acts from the first semi-final getting another twenty minutes to rehearse on stage. These rehearsals are important to help the artist be more comfortable on stage ahead of the full dress rehearsals next week, but also allow any delegation to make minor edits to their performances (outfit changes, camera angles, …
Rehearsals are finally ongoing and preparation for the live shows are in full swing, and with that, fans from all over the world, who are part of the OGAE fanclubs have voted and crowed their winner this year. We can officially say congrats to Baby Lasagna who has “Rim Tim Tagi Dim‘d” his way with the fans, but we can …
Yesterday we asked you to vote in our Day One rehearsals poll, and a staggering 471 readers cast their vote. To no surprise, Eurovision fans were in love with Baby Lasagna’s rehearsal. In fact, Croatia received 51% of the votes cast in the poll, a total of 241 votes. Coming in second was Ireland’s Bambie Thug with 65 votes, and …
