A key event on the road to the annual Eurovision Song Contest was held yesterday, after details on the Europe-wide singing competition were announced in 2012 host city Baku (Azerbaijan).
The city has the honour of hosting the contest due to Azerbaijan’s victory last year in Dusseldorf (Germany) through duet pair Ell & Nikki, with the event being mainly organised through national public broadcaster iTV, and set to be held between 22-26 May.
The event yesterday was considered as an ‘opening show’ to May’s contest, with decisions being announced on the official logo, the semi-final allocations for participants, and perhaps most importantly, the venue where it is all going to take place in 4 month’s time.
In a decision announced by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU, the organisation that founded and are responsible for the event), it was revealed that the entries from 43 countries will be performing at the new ‘Baku Crystal Hall’ on the city’s seafront.
The 23,000-capacity arena will be completed at the end of March at a cost of 6 million m (Azerbaijani Manat), and will have been constructed in the space of just 8 months.
While the venue will be permitted its full capacity for other events in the future (having been built as ‘multi-purpose’), organisers of Eurovision anticipate a capacity crowd of a reduced 16,000 for the competition.
EBU ‘Eurovision Song Contest Executive Supervisor’ Jon Ola Sand said of the news: “We are excited to hold the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in a brand new, state-of-the-art concert hall. Now that we have the assurance that the construction will be ready in time, we can look really forward to the contest.”
With the rest of Europe ready to descend on Baku for a week of musical and broadcasting festivities, will the preparations in the city run smoothly?
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