{"id":1282762,"date":"2025-08-20T12:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/eurovision-2026-to-be-held-in-vienna\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:55:45","slug":"eurovision-2026-to-be-held-in-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/eurovision-2026-to-be-held-in-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2026 to be held in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"244\"><strong>In 2026, the international song contest Eurovision will be held in the capital of Austria \u2013 Vienna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"244\"> The competition organizers reported this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"458\"> The semi-finals will take place on May 12 and 14, and the grand final on May 16 at the country&#8217;s largest indoor arena, the Wiener Stadthalle. Innsbruck and Vienna competed for the right to host the competition, but the capital won.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"579\"> Austria won the right to host Eurovision 2026 after singer JJ won this year&#8217;s contest in Basel.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"801\"> The country first took part in Eurovision in 1957 in Frankfurt, but finished in last place. Austria celebrated its first triumph in 1966 with the ballad <em data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"774\">Merci, Ch\u00e9rie<\/em> performed by Udo J\u00fcrgens.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"991\"> Conchita Wurst won the contest for the second time in 2014 with the song Rise Like a Phoenix. In 2025, her compatriot JJ repeated the success and gave the country the right to host the contest again. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, the international song contest Eurovision will be held in the capital of Austria \u2013 Vienna. The competition organizers reported this. The semi-finals will take place on May 12 and 14, and the grand final on May 16 at the country&#8217;s largest indoor arena, the Wiener Stadthalle. Innsbruck and Vienna competed for the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1230045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24160,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1282762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-ru","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}