Eurovision 2022: the lineup of the second semifinal

Another lap, another race. After the success of the first semifinal, followed by more than 5 million spectators, the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 returns Thursday 12 May in prime time on Rai1 and streaming on RaiPlay to present the last 18 countries in the competition and find out which of them will get the golden ticket to access the final on Saturday 14. Leading the evening are once again Laura Pausini, Alessandro Cattelan and Mika, while the comment of Rai1 is once again by Gabriele Corsi, Cristiano Malgioglio and Carolina Di Domenico, unfairly criticized by users who had no idea that Eurovision could also be followed in English.

The second semifinal, in addition to letting us get even more into the heart of the contest – of the 18 tracks in the competition, only 10 will pass the round – it will also give us the opportunity to peek at a competition that is particularly familiar to us Italians. We will see, in fact, both Emma Muscat, the singer born in Friends and representative of Malta, who Achille Lauro that, after winning the evening A voice for San Marinowill take the Eurovision stage aboard a mechanical bull to the tune of Stripper. Figure out if he will qualify for the final by tackling Mahmood and Blancoflown directly to the last act of the competition (here the reason), is one of the most interesting junctions to untangle.

Meanwhile, we also know that the evening will see the conductors Laura Pausini and Mika performing together in a duet, while the presence of de The flightwhich was scheduled to perform on the notes of Great love, the song they presented at Eurovision in 2015 and that made them finish third behind Russia and Sweden. Gianluca Ginoble was, in fact, positive at Covidbut the deputy director of Rai1 explained that nothing is lost: at the moment the organization is, in fact, trying to understand if it is possible to foresee its presence in a virtual format, “transforming a problem into an opportunity”.

Here she is official lineup of the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest with the singers in order of release.

1. Finland The Rasmus – Jezebel
2. Israel Michael Ben David – IM
3. Serbia Konstrakta – In Corpore Sano
4. Azerbaijan Nadir Rustamli – Fade To Black
5. Georgia Circus Mircus – Lock Me In
6. Malta Emma Muscat – I Am What I Am
7. San Marino Achille Lauro – Stripper
8. Australia Sheldon Riley – Not The Same
9. Cyprus Andromache – Ela
10. Ireland Brooke – That’s Rich
11. North Macedonia Andrea – Circles
12. Estonia Stefan – Hope
13. Romania WRS – Llámame
14. Poland Ochman – River
15. Montenegro Vladana – Breathe
16. Belgium Jérémie Makiese – Miss You
17. Sweden Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer
18. Czech Republic We Are Domi – Lights Off

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