Today: 🇦🇹 Eurovision 2026 Stage Reveal & 🇲🇩 Selecția Națională 2026 Auditions

Today, the stage for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will be revealed, while auditions take place in Moldova for their national selection.

🇦🇹 Eurovision 2026: Stage Design Reveal – 09:30 CET

The stage for the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest will be revealed by host broadcaster ORF this morning at 09:30 CET.

Back in September, host broadcaster ORF confirmed that Florian Weider would be the stage designer for the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. This marks the 10th contest that the German designer has created the stage for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Florian was first involved with the Eurovision Song Contest when he designed the stage for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, for which he received the German Television Award for Best Entertainment Show. His most recent stage was this year’s contest in Basel. He also designed the stage for the 2015 edition of the contest, which was hosted in the Wiener Stadthalle, which will host the upcoming contest.

🇲🇩 Moldova: Selecția Națională 2026 Auditions – 10:00 CEST
Image source: EBU / Corinne Cumming

36 artists will take part in the live audition stage for Selecția Națională 2026, the national selection that Moldova will use to choose a representative for Eurovision 2026. The live audition stage will take place today December 16 starting at 11:00 local time, in studio 2 of TRM in Chisinau.

The complete line-up of the auditions is as follows:

Adelisha – “Alegria” (Joy)
Adelina – “Putere în durere” (Strength in pain)
Adrian Sîrbu – “Ne-am stins” (We have passed away)
Sasha Flowers – “Can do more”
Sasha Flowers – “We fight till the end”
Alexei Legasi – “Rebel”
Annet Smirnova – “Sunt femeia” (I am the woman)
Artiom Topal – “Money”
Catalina Solomac – “Pink Margarita”
Chris Cross ft Radco – “Taci” (Be quiet)
Cristy Rouge – “Bliss”
Dana Marchitan – “Cry”
DAYANA – “Doina”
Bacho – “Tata” (Father)
Lisa Volk – “Dragostea Mea” (My love)
Emforia – “Tipare” (Patterns)
Evghenii Avramov & ALenin Ivan – “Foc la ghete” (Fire in the boots)
Ilinca Siviroveanu – “Running through the rain”
Curly – “Respir liber” (I breathe freely)
Iulia Teleuca – “Luna Mea” (My moon)
Katy Rain – “Dance & Cry”
Moniq Monua – “Like I do”
August Black – “You make me crazy”
Maxim Zavidia – “Alo” (Hello)
Nadejda Rotaru – “Winter story”
Pavel Orlov – “Can’t say goodbye”
Rodica Jabinschi – “Dependentă” (Dependence)
Oliv Sky – “Bad dream”
Sasha Bognibov – “On the right path”
Satoshi – “Viva, Moldova”
L-ERA – “Friends”
Valleria – “Valerian Steel rai di ri di dam”
Zeleno – “No pain no gain”
Chris Cross – “Close my eyes”
MOLDIE – “Moldova mea” (My Moldova)
DAYANA – “Cry a river”

For the first time since 2015, the live auditions will not be broadcast. Between 5 to 10 acts will be selected for the final.

The final of Selecţia Naţională 2026 will take place on January 17 at the Chișinău Arena. The jury for the national selection will consist of 20 members; 5 international members and 15 Moldovan members. The winner will be decided by the international jury members (33%), the Moldovan jury members (33%) and public voting (33%).

Image source: ORF / Christian Öser

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