Tonight Live from Vienna: The Eurovision 2026 First Semi-Final Show

• The Eurovision 2026 week is progressing  to the Semi Final 1 Live Show taking place this evening at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria at 21:00 CEST. 

  As Eurovision week is unwinding , following last evening's Jury rehearsal show for the Semi Final 1 competing acts, tonight the Semi-final 1 LIve show will take place in Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna.

   

  The story so far

  Following JJ's victory in Basel with Wasted Love, the contest returns to Austria for a third time after hosting the contest back in 2015 after Conchita's win in Copenhagen with 'Rise like a Phoenix' and in 1967 after winning with Udo Jürgens.

   

  Semi-final One show

  From the 35 participating coutries the moemnt of truth for the first 15 countries has come with the first semi-final live show this evening. The rest 15 coutries will compete in the Semi-final 2 on Thursday while the Big-5 countries ( Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom) along with the hosting nation Austria have pre-qualified for the Grand final. 

  The Live Semi-Final One Show will be hosted by Victoria Swarowski and Michael Ostrowski, guiding the audience through all three live shows while the organisers will treat the spectators with a number of interval acts. 

  The 15 competing entries to take the stage this evening will compete in the following running order: 

  1. Moldova – Satoshi – Viva, Moldova!
  2. Sweden – Felicia – My system
  3. Croatia – Lelek – Andromeda
  4. Greece – Akylas – Ferto
  5. Portugal – Bandidos do Cante – Rosa
  6. Georgia – Bzikebi – On replay
     Italy – Sal da Vinci – Per sempre sì (pre-qualified)
  7. Finland – Linda Lampenius x Pete Parkkonen – Liekinheitin
  8. Montenegro – Tamara Živković – Nova zora
  9. Estonia – Vanilla Ninja – Too epic to be true
  10. Israel – Noam Bettan – Michelle
      Germany – Sarah Engels – Fire (pre-qualified)
  11. Belgium – Essyla – Dancing on the ice
  12. Lithuania – Lion Ceccah – Sólo quiero más
  13. San Marino – Senhit ft. Boy George – Superstar
  14. Poland – Alicja – Pray
  15. Serbia – Lavina – Kraj mene

   

  Notably the two of the Big-5 countries Germany  and Italy will perform live on stage tonight their performances without of course competing in the show but will be able to vote. 

   

  The results

  The 10 qualifiers will be announced this evening after the votes from last night's jury voting and today's televtoing are added along with the Internartional voting that started from last evening . Three countries will be highlighted at a time, with one announced as a qualifier and the other two left waiting. Each country can not be highlighted more than three times while the last qualifier will be anounced with all the reamainng six highlighted. It's going to be undoubntfully an super exciting night!

   

  How to Watch

  The first semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will be aired live on several national broadcasters and on the official Youtube Eurovision channel from 21.00 CET.

   

   

  News Source: Eurovision.tv/EBU

  Image: Eurofans radio/ Press rehearsal

   

   

AUTHORS

Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 15 consecutive years along with the 2017-2025 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.