The Opening reception at the Vienna City Hall
17 May 2015 at 19:30 CESTStarting 18:00 CET, artists start to arrive at the Red Carpet. The delegations will be arriving approximately every three minutes. The Red Carpet ceremony will be opened by last year's winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest Conchita Wurst. Last year’s host country of Denmark will be the first nation on the Red Carpet.
Here is the scheduled running order, so you can look out for your favourites.
- Conchita Wurst (Winner of the 2014 contest and Green Room presenter)
- Denmark
- Netherlands
- Lithuania
- Ireland
- Israel
- Georgia
- Armenia
- Estonia
- Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer (Presenters of the 2015 contest)
- Italy
- Poland
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Finland
- Australia
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Czech Republic
- France
- Hungary
- Belarus
- Malta
- F.Y.R. Macedonia
- Russia
- Iceland
- Greece
- Belgium
- Albania
- Portugal
- Montenegro
- Norway
- Serbia
- Cyprus
- San Marino
- Azerbaijan
- Latvia
- Moldova
- Romania
@18:01 And here we are, Conchita Wurst is first to appear on the Red Carpet, joining the hosts of the Opening ceremony, Kati Bellowitsch and Andi Knoll.
@18:42 Germany, Finland and Australia are next to arrive.
@19:05 Artists from Sweden, Czech Republic and France just arrived at the Vienna City Hall.
Gallery: Red Carpet Ceremony - Part 2@19:27 Contestants from Albania, Belgium and Belarus are next to join.