Stage: Forum Discussion

[Loindici]

- Stage -

Speculate anything you want to see for the 2022 stage!​

 

[Loindici]

As example, since we'll have RAI hosting it, EBU AND RAI, PLEASE, DO NOT CHOOSE ANOTHER CRAP BY FLORIAN WIEDER.

 

[Chiarina]

This year the Sanremo stage was so good, I wouldn't mind a stage made by the same designer

 

[sucof]

And this is the stage of a small provincial cinema, imagine in a large arena!

Sanremo 2021:

Sanremo 2020

 

[Loindici]

Sanremo 2021:

Sanremo 2020

I will support the stage being designed by Gaetano Castelli!

 

[sucof]

I agree, Gaetano Castelli is a wizard of scenography.
I hope it is a different scenography, with a more Italian touch, sinuous and elegant lines.
A scenography more elaborate in the details, not just LED walls tens of meters high!
We do not lack good taste
obviously the style of sanremo cannot be 100% reproduced at eurovision but I hope there is some aesthetic reference

 

[iwanna belovewithyou]

Rai will do everything by itself without outside help, we have excellent workers

 

[GermanBango]

Yeah but please give us LEDs - that`s really all I want.

 

[Chrisiam]

Personally I am just sick of the flat LED screens at this point, its just so dull and visually uninteresting at this point and it makes it feel like almost every staging year on year is near identical. Give us something bold! Give us something with some visual depth to it!

 

[sucof]

Yeah but please give us LEDs - that`s really all I want.

You will also have your own led walls, don't worry: -9

 

[Loindici]

Personally I am just sick of the flat LED screens at this point, its just so dull and visually uninteresting at this point and it makes it feel like almost every staging year on year is near identical. Give us something bold! Give us something with some visual depth to it!

Castellini's design actually has LEDs on it arranged with depth, so I wanna see him do something similar.

After all, it's not impossible to think Castellini already had his position locked to design the stage as soon as Maneskin won.

 

[Ezio]

I can feel it is the year without Wieder.

Hopefully. This year was his most boring stage so far. He is running out of ideas.

 

[anto475]

I don't care if a child makes the stage out of lego, just please not Florian Wieder again, he's so unimaginative and he really has had his time in the spotlight

 

[Ezio]

I like his 2018 Lisbon stage though a lot. All the others lacked something, or just looked to similar.


Wieder about his Rotterdam work:

– The set design shows the connection between the sky, the sea and the land. The horizon is the link between these elements and that horizon will work as a window to open the world of Eurovision 2020

– The floor plan of the decor is inspired by the canals and bridges that connect land and water in the Netherlands. With this design, we want to bring the artists as close as possible to the public.


That's a lot of fancy words for a flat LED floor, a flat LED background screen and a flat low definition LED flag. What would have been really cool, would have been actual water in "canals" integrated. And the artists could not have further from the public, the catwalk was really awkward this year, so would have made sense to readjust the stage to the circumstance of lack of audience on the ground floor level.

 

[Chiarina]

I don't mind Wieder's stages but after a few years in a row they're starting to seem all the same, we need someone new for next year

 

[Fluke]

While those wouldn't be suitable for Eurovision, i really miss stages that had fixed "features" like stairs or platforms, instead of being one big flat surface.

 

[Ianp16]

I'm thinking neoclassical inspired by ancient rome, very theatrical...

 

[anto475]

As long as we don't end up with a load of former film props like in 1991

 

[Loindici]

A big LED screen sure is versatile and adaptable, but yeah,

2011? Flat LED
2012? Flat LED, but spread in crystals
2015? Flat LED, but with an eye ornament
2017? Flat LED, but with a Zaha Hadid plagiate
2018? Yup, lamps arranged like flat LED, and some arches
2019? Flat LED, and a triangle bar
2021? Totally Flat LED

 

[A-lister]

Personally I am just sick of the flat LED screens at this point, its just so dull and visually uninteresting at this point and it makes it feel like almost every staging year on year is near identical. Give us something bold! Give us something with some visual depth to it!

I want LED!!!!

I think you can incorporate LED in something bold and original, the one doesn't have to exclude the other, it's just that we've had a bit of "the same" lately so we need to have fresh minds, but I fully think it's possible to combine.

LED does give the acts more possibilities to elevate their entries visually for the viewers, without them Eurovision looks more like some "standard" concerts and the entries look pretty much the same visually (Oslo 2010 and Lisbon 2018). It's not like you're forced to use the LED, just like you're not forced to use background dancers, but the option should be there and the acts should use what they think works best for their entries, why do we want to limit the choices? With all limitations we also get less diverse acts.

Also, it's more costly to come up with props etc. if you can't use LED, which leads to more visually scaled down performances, and again I am not against scaled down if it works for a specific entry, but I also am not in the camp that everything needs to be scaled down because again more options - more diversity!