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Last Eurovision ticket sales wave set

The third and final wave of ticket sales for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest is set for February 27th at 9.00am, with tickets available for all shows at Vienna's Stadthalle.

Published: 18 February 2015 11:52 CET
Last Eurovision ticket sales wave set
This year's Austrian presenters. Photo: APA/ORF/Ramstorfer

A small amount of tickets will still be available in the future when the last details for the shows are fixed. 

In December and January tickets were only on sale for the semi-finals but this time they will be available for all shows – the Jury Shows (second dress rehearsals) on the day before each live show, and the Family Shows (third dress rehearsals) that will take place on the day of the live shows, and the coveted live shows.

The Jury and Family Shows do not have pan-European televoting and no results are announced during them.

The two semi-finals are in Vienna on May 19th and 21st and the final takes place on May 23rd.

Tickets can be purchased from Oeticket.com. Austrian broadcaster the ORF is warning people to beware of buying overpriced tickets from bootleggers on the internet, with some people buying up tickets and then attempting to sell them for a profit. The terms and conditions of the tickets prohibit this and the ORF reserves the right to take legal action against such people. 

Tickets will be sent via post shortly before the shows. 

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Sweden among favourites after leaping through to Eurovision final

Cornelia Jakobs, Sweden's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, burst into tears and jumped onto presenter Mario Acampas, after shooting through to the final on Thursday night.

Published: 13 May 2022 08:09 CEST
Sweden among favourites after leaping through to Eurovision final

Jakobs was emotional at the press conference after her victory, telling the story of her progress from an “largely unknown” indie artist to the Eurovision stage. 

“There are a lot of feelings right now in this little body, an extremely large amount of feelings that can’t really fit in, so they’re exploding,” she said, before beginning to cry. “But I’m so happy and overwhelmed by all the support I’ve got from all these fantastic countries.” 

When the time came to pick lots for which half of the final she would appear in, she leapt onto Mario Acampas, the presenter asking questions at the press conference, wrapping her legs around his waist and clasping herself tightly to his torso. 

He then walked her over to the bowl where the lots were lying. 

“I want you to choose the second half,” she said to him. “Imagine that I have a pistol here and on the count of three I’m going to shoot you if you don’t choose.”

He refused to pick for her so she took one herself and got the second half. 

Jakobs, with her song, “Hold me closer”, was the clear favourite to go into the final, and will go through alongside Finland’s The Rasmus, and his song Jezebel, Serbia’s Konstrakta with “In corpore sano”, as well as entries from Belgium, Czechia, Azerbaijan, Poland, Estonia, Australia, and Romania. 

You can see her performance on Thursday in the video below. 

In the final, she will meet the other favourites, which include Ukraine, Italy, and the United Kingdom. 

The final will be shown on Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT at 9pm on Saturday. 

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