Before screening the first semi-final live, audiences were treated to the perfect warm up – the English National Opera does Eurovision.
In the morning, hundreds of local primary school children were invited to get involved in the Eurovision spirirt and watch the English National Opera rehearse. This was some of the children’s first experience of opera.
Later on in the evening, this one off performance was iconic as audiences experienced Eurovision like never before. The world-renowned ENO Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Bell, joined by former Eurovision contestants and international opera stars performed classical arrangements of some of Eurovision’s greatest hits.
