Prepare your wallets: Eurovision ticket offices open
Published: 16 March, 2009, 20:31
Get ready for the show! Tickets for Eurovision-2009 went on sale Monday March 16. The best-song-of-Europe contest begins in Moscow on May 12.
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Moscow authorities have allocated a sum equivalent to $100,000 in the first outlay going towards hosting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
Moscow has been chosen as the host city for the 2009 Eurovision song contest. Several Russian cities fought for the privilege, but the government has decided it will be cheaper to hold it in the capital.
The global financial crisis isn't going to stand in the way of Moscow showing its European guests a good time at the Eurovision 2009 competition in May.
The second semi-finalists’ rehearsals welcomes a priest, a healer, and the favorite of the contest – the singer from Norway and Slovakia comes to Eurovision after 11 years of the state’s absence from the song contest.
The 21st edition of the international music festival in the French city of Colmar has been dedicated to one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, Russian virtuoso Svyatoslav Richter.
03.05.2009, 21:59
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The first rehearsals for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest kicked off at Moscow’s Olympiyski Indoor Arena on Sunday.
15.05.2009, 15:19
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The American queen of burlesque and striptease dancer Dita von Teese will join the German duo ‘Alex Swings Oscar Sings’ on stage in Moscow. The extravagant trio will perform at the Eurovision final on May 16.
“I’ll write a song in Russian, which will be in the running of the Eurovision contest next year. Be my guests!” promised Norwegian singer of Belarusian origin after his sweeping victory at the 54th Eurovision contest.
A record number of Russian filmmakers will take part in one of the oldest film festivals in the world, which kicks off in the picturesque spa town of Karlovy Vary, some 120 km away from Prague.
Despite all efforts to exclude politics from the context of Eurovision, it can still be seen here.
Published: 16 March, 2009, 20:31
Get ready for the show! Tickets for Eurovision-2009 went on sale Monday March 16. The best-song-of-Europe contest begins in Moscow on May 12.