1e repetitie, van de Eurovision live blog
17:50 CEST: Rehearsal 4 - 🇨🇭 Switzerland - Zoë Më – Voyage
Time for host nation Switzerland now, with Zoë Më taking us on a melodic Voyage. Zoë was born in Basel, so this is very much a homecoming – Voyage is sung in French, but she’s known for singing in both French and German, blending poetic pop with traditional chanson.
We’ve had some more staging notes! This time from Switzerland’s Creative Director Theo Adams, who has essentially written this entire section for us in spectacular detail. Here’s how he describes Switzerland’s performance:
"Switzerland’s Zoë Më presents “Voyage” as a three-minute, unbroken moment of cinematic intimacy. The performance unfolds in a single continuous handheld shot, with no cuts, no dancers, no choreography, no set pieces, no props, no LED screen content, and no fireworks. It focuses entirely on Zoë’s presence, unfolding in a quiet, concentrated world built on emotional detail.
The image is soft and expressive, filmed on a full-frame cinema camera using the exact same Zeiss Super Speed lenses from the 1970s that were used to shoot films like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. These lenses create blooming highlights, delicate flares, and a shallow depth of field that gently isolates Zoë in the frame. She begins seated, surrounded by infinite black and sculptural lighting that gives the performance the feeling of a Caravaggio painting.
She wears an off-the-shoulder black silk dress by Rowanne Studio, printed with abstract florals in deep reds, purples, and blues. The camera moves closely around her, capturing shifts between connection and introspection without interruption. Operated entirely by hand, it carries a natural, breathing quality that responds in real time to Zoë’s energy and presence. The result is a continuous flow of quiet, detailed observation. Intimate, immediate, and unfiltered.
At the bridge, the atmosphere ruptures. Smoke, wind, and stark, overexposed flashes interrupt the stillness. But the camera never cuts. It tilts, circles, and responds to the rupture with a visceral sense of motion, remaining closely attuned to Zoë throughout. As the intensity subsides, the audience slowly comes into view, their phone lights glowing like stars around Zoë, before everything dissolves back into the infinite black where it began.
Voyage is a performance built on restraint and cinematic precision. It uses the scale of the Eurovision stage in a different way, drawing all attention to Zoë and the emotion she carries in every frame. Nothing distracts. Nothing interrupts. Just one voice, one presence, and a moment that feels deeply personal."
What could we possibly add? Switzerland is a MOOD.
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