The Eurovision 2025 stage is ready

The stage for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is ready for the 37 countries competing. The first rehearsals inside St. Jakobshalle in Basel will start on Saturday, 3 May.

2,000 square meters of stage, almost 1,000 square meters of LEDs alone, about 30 cameras, thousands of lights, a hundred pyrotechnic systems, and much more. All designed to create the outline of the world's biggest music competition.

The stage floor in St. Jakobshalle is huge. The backdrop is a large LED wall surrounded by mountains – we are in the Swiss Alps after all.

At the back, the main stage is shaped as a trapezoid, or is it an arrow? Via a central catwalk, the stage is connected to the front part of the stage, which is in the middle of the large hall. The front stage is surrounded by a gigantic LED arch.

Florian Wieder took inspiration from the Swiss mountains:

– Our goal was to create a revolutionary stage concept – a holistic experience that we’ve never seen before at Eurovision. Thanks to the immersive stage layout, the audience will get to be part of Eurovision like never before, says Florian Wieder.

Reto Peritz and Moritz Stadler, the co-executive producers, are enthusiastic about a design which is set to be unmistakably Swiss:

– In Florian Wieder we have a stage designer on board who is a creative visionary and who knows Switzerland like the back of his hand. He has succeeded in creating a "signature stage," which will forever be associated with Eurovision in Switzerland.

Florian Wieder – a champion in stage design

Florian Wieder is the production designer. It's not the first time he's gotten into stage design. In his portfolio there are a wide range of stages used for TV productions: Multiple MTV awards, "America's Got Talent," "Britain's Got Talent," as well as the Austrian versions of "Star Mania," "Dancing With the Stars," "Heroes of Tomorrow," and "The Big Chance." He's also designed stages for Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, and U2!

Florian Wieder is also the mastermind behind a total of eight Eurovision Song Contest stage designs:

• Malmö 2024
• Rotterdam in 2021
• Tel Aviv in 2019
• Lisbon in 2018
• Kyiv in 2017
• Vienna in 2015
• Baku in 2012
• Düsseldorf in 2011

Florian Wieder's nine Eurovision stages

Eurovision Song Contest 2025

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest takes place on 13, 15 and 17 May 2025. The contest will be held in Basel, Switzerland.

• Location: Basel, Switzerland
• Participants: 37
• Semi-final 1: 13 May 2025: 15 participants. The 10 best songs qualify for the Grand Final
• Semi-final 2: 15 May 2025: 16 participants. The 10 best songs qualify for the Grand Final
• Grand Final: 17 May 2025: 26 participants: Switzerland, Big-5 (Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom), 10 best from Semi-final 1, 10 best from Semi-final 2