Operación Triunfo 2018 starts soon - save the date!
The casting of Operación Triunfo 2018 is in its final phase. According to a statement from RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española), more than 16,000 candidates applied for the castings held in Barcelona, Sevilla, Alicante, Valencia, Mallorca, San Sebastian, Vigo, Tenerife, Malaga and Madrid. According to Spanish website FormulaTV, the premiere of OT 2018 is just around the corner – save the date – it's the 17th September! Where to watch... The show will be broadcast on La 1, the tele
JESC | Could Spain be returning to Junior Eurovision?
The Spanish broadcaster RTVE have announced that they might consider returning to Junior Eurovision in the near future. Despite a string of top 5 placings, cementing themselves as one of the most successful countries in Junior Eurovision, Spain decided to withdraw from the contest in 2007 due to the changing format. The director (at the time) of RTVE, Javier Pons, said that this decision was made because of the exploitation to which the children were subjected to and because
Aitana shows sass with 'Teléfono'
Operación Triunfo returned to Spanish screens last year after a 6 year hiatus and it quickly garnered a huge level of attention globally. It ended up being the national selection for Spain's 2018 Eurovision representative and eventual runner-up Aitana cemented herself as a fan favourite. Aitana's duet for the Eurovision Gala (with fellow contestant Ana Guerra), 'Lo Malo', has seen huge chart success as it's remained in the Top 10 of the Spanish charts for the past 24 weeks de
Spain | Amaia and Alfred will sing at Eurovision 2018
Amaia and Alfred have won Operación Trifuno with their song "Tu Cancion" (Your Song) which they will sing in the grand final of Eurovision 2018 in Lisbon. The Eurovision gala of Operación Trifuno was held in Barcelona on Monday night. In the first round, there were a total of five acts, singing two songs each, with all five finalists then singing one song together at the end. The nine competing songs were: 1. Amaia and Alfred - Tu canción" (Your Song) 2. Aitana - "Arde" (It B
Spain | First Look At The 9 Competing Songs For Spain
After yesterday's Operación Triunfo's gala, in which some of the Spanish Eurovision news were revealed, TVE hosted this afternoon a special edition focused on the nine competing songs. Before we break them to you, we have to take a few things into consideration. The following videos show the artists hearing the song for the first few times, learning the structure and the lyrics along some quite stripped down demos, some of them not specially over produced. We will still need
Spain | OT2017: The Run to Eurovision!
Yesterday the semifinal of Operación Triunfo 2017 was a big show, in this night we knew the name of the fifth finalist, Ana Guerra. RTVE had a surprise for this night, and the rules of the selection for the singer and the song for Eurovision 2018 changed. First we knew that the final will be the only five singers that will represent Spain in ESC, but the TVE announced that the national selection will be completed with five soloists songs, three duets and one group song. The n
Spain | The Finalists of Operación Triunfo 2017
Last Monday, Spanish show "Operación Triunfo 2017" took place, where we listened to the songs of all the contestants, and we knew the names of the first four finalists of the contest, who will be in a special show of OT2017 to select the Spanish entry for Eurovision 2018. This special show will take place on 29th January, one week before the big final of this amazing contest, which is a restart of the old show that stopped being realized in 2011, because it had low viewing fi
Eurovoxx's Eurovision Wishlist: Part 6/6
It's been almost two months since Portugal was crowned the winner of the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine and many Euro-Fans are still craving for more Eurovision. To quell our need for more Eurovision, we set out to find singers from all over Europe and Australia and compile them into a wish-list for the Eurovision Song Contest. Over this six part series we will travel from Norway to Australia, from Iceland to Portugal and from Finland to Italy in search of ou
"Operación Triunfo 2017", the substitute of "Objetivo Eurovisión"
After some months without news from the next representative of Spain in Lisbon, RTVE decided announce on Monday in the show "Opetación Triunfo" (OT 2017), that the singer who will sing for Spain on the stage of Eurovision Song contest 2018, in the capital of Portugal, will be one of the participants of this amazing TV show. After the bad events in the selection of 2017, RTVE, the spanish broadcaster, decided back to one of the old forms that they used for sent the entry in 20
UNDERSTANDING THIS YEARS' SPANISH EURODRAMA!!
One of the big dramas of this years' national final season came from Spain, causing an outcry from the Eurovision community and Spanish public. Clara gives us an in-depth view as to how this all came about... The backstory... On the 11th February 2017, Spain aired the Spanish national selection in search for Eurovision 2017’s candidate. It was gala with six contestants and the voting was a compilation of 50% public choice and 50% professional jury. The selection was scheduled
