Мой фаворит Норвегия и Эстония.Лобода понравилась,как ни странно.Но боюсь её затмит Дита фон Тиз.

Ну а Приходько как писали будет просвечиваться простыня?

Ok, I'll be blogging the 2nd Dress Rehearsal for the final from the Press Centre. This is a very important Dress rehearsal as the juries will vote after seeing this rehearsal so tonight is as important as tomorrow night.  Just keep refreshing the page to keep it updated. the rehearsal is due to start in about 5 minutes, though this afternoon's was slightly delayed.

Show begins with a Cirque de Soleil presentation

Now Dima descends from the sky and starts running through walls, then he starts singing  'Believe'

Now presenters are announced and walk onstage.

Sasha Son first up for Lithuania..  Great performance.  Looks great on camera.  Sings end of song in Russian and a good response from the audience

Noa and Mira for Israel next.  Similar set colour to Lithuania.  Great harmonies and vocals. they both get to the drums on time., and a nice audience reaction

Patricia Kaas next for France.  Huge cheer as she starts singing . She is dressed in a dark purple dress with one shoulder bare., a black necklace . set has a gold border on floor so its not too dark.  HUGE audience reaction to this!!!

Malena for Sweden .  Good performance, vocals a liitle off at the start though. A good but not a huge reaction.  Slighly overshadowed by France I feel.

Croatia next.  A nicely staged performance and nice vocals.  Another blue stage. ok audience reaction.  Does not stand out though.

Portugal next and the first thing you notice is the colourful set after mostly dark sets of the previous songs. Nice camera shots and good vocals .  A nice happy perfformance. Great audience reaction.

Now its Yohanna for Iceland.  ANOTHER blue set, but a good one. Faultless vocals. Great camera work , An absolutely fantastic performance from Iceland.

Greece next .  Great visual presentation, nice camera angles maybe a few too many wide shots. A great audience reaction.

Now it's Amernia with Inga and Anush. Fabulously strong vocals.  the laser shots with the backing dancers are very effective. Fabulous set on this. A very good audience reaction.

Azerbaijan next.  No delays with having the set ready compared to this afternoons rehearsal.  A very good performance and great vocals form both on screen. Good camera angles.  I can see this doing very well.  A very effective set and a very good audience reaction.

Song 12 - Bosnia & Herzegovina.   Effective red set for this.  a great performance , vocals a little strained att he very start but not for long and the performance was very strong overall.  Great audience reaction

then we have the commercial break starts and we see a Russian reporter asking Russians to sing.

Moldova is first to sing after the break.  Great vocal performance , great set for this song and you cant help tapping the feet. to this.

Chiara is next for Malta, Too many wide camera shots here and she gets lost on stage.  Vocals are very good and she gets one of the best reactions from the audience so far.  It was stronger than the audience reaction to Greece.

Estonian next and a very strong vocal performance here. Good camera shots on cellists and backing vocalists. A good audience reaction.