ESC ROME 1991 (36ª)

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  • Dates – Grand Final: Saturday, 04 May 1991 – 21:00 CEST
  • Host – Venue & Location: Studio 15 de Cinecittà, Rome, 🇮🇹 Italy
  • Presenter (s): Gigliola Cinquetti & Toto Cutugno
  • Musical Director: Bruno Canfora.
  • Director: Riccardo Donna
  • Executive Producer: Silvia Salvetti
  • Executive Supervisor: Frank Naef
  • Multicamera Director: Riccardo Donna
  • Host broadcaster: Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)
  • Opening Act: Recorded music video of Sara Carlson’s “New Day (Celebrate)” amongst the ruins of ancient Rome; Toto Cutugno performing “Insieme: 1992” and Gigliola Cinquetti performing “Non ho l’età.
  • Interval Act: Arturo Brachetti 
  • Participants – Number of entries: 22 [🇧🇪 Belgium (33ª), 🇩🇪 Germany (33ª), 🇨🇭 Switzerland (33ª), 🇬🇧 United Kindom (31ª), 🇪🇸 Spain (28ª), 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (32ª), 🇫🇮 Finland (27ª), 🇳🇴 Norway (28ª), 🇵🇹 Portugal (24ª), 🇦🇹 Austria (29ª), 🇸🇪 Sweden (29ª), 🇩🇰 Denmark (24ª), 🇹🇷 Turkey (14ª), 🇫🇷 France (32ª), 🇮🇪 Ireland (23ª), 🇮🇱 Israel (15ª), 🇮🇸 Iceland (6ª),  Yugoslavia (25ª), 🇬🇷 Greece (13ª), 🇮🇹 Italy (30ª), 🇨🇾 Cyprus (10ª), 🇲🇹 Malta (4ª)]
  • Debuting countries: —
  • Return: 🇲🇹 Malta (4ª)
  • Non-returning countries: 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (31ª)
  • Vote – Voting system: Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs.
  • Nil Points:  Austria (3ª)
  • Brano vincitore: 1f3c6 “Fångad av en stormvind” – Carola Häggkvist – 🇸🇪 Sweden (3ª)

Logo ESC 1991

About. The 1991 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Rome, Italy and saw France and Sweden tie for first place at the end of the voting. The 1991 Eurovision Song Contest was supposed to be held in the seaside resort San Remo which is known for its annual festival of Italian music, but host broadcaster RAI moved it to Rome at a very late stage due to ongoing instability in the Balkan region. For the second time since the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, the Netherlands decided to withdraw from the contest due to the country’s Remembrance Day. Malta took the open spot which meant that the country was back for the first time since 1975. The contest was presented by Toto Cutugno, who won for Italy the previous year. Toto was joined on stage by Italy’s other winner, Gigliola Cinquetti, who won the contest in 1964. For the majority of the show the presenters spoke solely in Italian.

France v Sweden. At the end of the voting procedure both Sweden and France had 146 points each. The tie-break rule that was introduced in 1989 was therefore put into effect. France and Sweden both had the same amount of 12 points so the amount to 10 points was included. Sweden received more sets of 10 points and so was declared the winner. Carola had already participated in 1983 with the song “Främling” which finished third. She had already tried to enter the 1990 contest in Zagreb but lost out in the Swedish national heats. In 2006 she participated once again and finished in 5th place with “Invincible”.

Facts and figures. Each singer was asked to perform a well-known Italian song as part of their postcard clips. The images chosen for each postcard were said to have reflected the personalities of the performers; The backing singer for the UK entry included Kit Rolfe who had performed as part of Belle and the Devotions in 1984, and Hazell Dean who had a number of hits in the 1980s. Dean participated in the UK national selection in 1976 and 1984. The UK representative in 1991, Samantha Janus, went on to have a successful acting career following her Eurovision appearance; The 1991 contest is best remembered as being a chaotic affair and the EBU’s Executive Supervisor, Frank Naef, was regularly called upon by the hosts for clarification, especially during the voting. 

o/r  country PaRticipant(s) song – translatE – LANGUAGE Points  rank
01  Yugoslavia JRT Baby Doll (Bebi Dol, Беби Дол) Brazil (Бразил) Serbo-Croatian 001 21
02 🇮🇸 Iceland RÚV Stefán & Eyfi Nína (Draumur um Nínu, Dream of Nina) Icelandic 026 15
03 🇲🇹 Malta XM Paul Giordimaina & Georgina Could It Be English 106 06
04 🇬🇷 Greece ERT Sofia Vossou (Σοφία Βόσσου) I Anixi (Η άνοιξη, Spring) Greek 036 13
05 🇨🇭 Switzerland SSR SRG Sandra Simó Canzone Per Te (A song for you) Italian 118 05
06 🇦🇹 Austria ÖRF Thomas Forstner Venedig im regen (Venice in the rain) German 000 22
07 🇱🇺 Luxembourg CLT Sarah Bray Un baiser volé (A stolen kiss) French 029 04
08 🇸🇪 Sweden SVT Carola Fångad av en stormvind (Captured by a storm wind) Swedish 146 01
09 🇫🇷 France A2F Amina C’est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison (It’s the last one who spoke who is right; Le dernier qui a parlé … / The last to have spoken…) French 146 02
10 🇹🇷 Turkey TRT İzel Çeliköz, Reyhan Karaca (Rayhan Soykarçi)
& Can Uğurluer (İzel, Reyhan Karaca, Can Uğurluer)		 İki dakika (Two minutes) Turkish 044 12
11 🇮🇪 Ireland RTÉ Kim Jackson Could it be that I’m in love? English 047 10
12 🇵🇹 Portugal RTP Dulce (Dulce Pontes) Lusitana paixão (Lusitanian Passion) Portuguese 062 08
13 🇩🇰 Denmark DR Anders Frandsen Lige der hvor hjertet slår (Where The Heart Beats) Danish 008 19
14 🇳🇴 Norway NRK Just 4 Fun Mrs. Thompson Norwegian 014 17
15 🇮🇱 Israel IBA Duo Datz (אורנה ומשה דץ) Kan (כאן, Here) Hebrew 139 03
16 🇫🇮 Finland YLE Kaija (Kaija Kärkinen) Hullu yö (A crazy night) Finnish 006 20
17 🇩🇪 Germany ARD Atlantis 2000 Dieser traum darf niemals sterben (This dream may never die) German 010 18
18 🇧🇪 Belgium BRT Closeau Geef het op (Give it up) Dutch 023 16
19 🇪🇸 Spain TVE Sergio Dalma Bailar pegados (Dancing closely) Spanish 119 04
20 🇬🇧 United Kindom BBC Samantha Janus A message to your heart English 047 10
21 🇨🇾 Cyprus CyBC Elena Patroklou (Ελενα Πατρόκλου) S.O.S. Greek 060 09
22 🇮🇹 Italy RAI Peppino di Capri Comme è ddoce ‘o mare (Com’è dolce il mare, How sweet is the sea) Neapolitan 089 07

Participation map

A coloured map of the countries of Europe

Transmitirá a 2º semifinal noutro horário. Participating countries Transmitirá a 1º semifinal em direto. Countries that participated in the past but not in 1991

ESC 1991 Scoreboard Ι Detailed voting results:

Scoreboard - Eurovision Song Contest 1991

The Eurovision Song Contest 1991 was the 36th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Rome, Italy, following the country’s victory at the 1990 contest with the song “Insieme: 1992” by Toto Cutugno and was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI). The contest was held at Studio 15 di Cinecittà on 4 May 1991 and was hosted by former Italian winners Gigliola Cinquetti and Toto Cutugno.

Twenty-two countries took part in the contest with Malta participating for the first time since 1975, and the Netherlands deciding not to participate. This contest was also the last time that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia participated, the country would soon be split up opening up new countries to participate in the coming years. It was also the first time that Germany was represented in their reunited form since East Germany joined West Germany by the German reunification.

The winner this year was Sweden with the song “Fångad av en stormvind” by Carola. There was a tie between Sweden and France with “C’est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison” by Amina, as both songs had received 146 points. This necessitated a ‘count-back’, a tie-breaking measure introduced after the four-way tie in 1969. Both Sweden and France had received four sets of 12 points, but Sweden had received five sets of 10 points to France’s two, so Carola was declared the winner.

Cinecittà, Rome – host venue of the 1991 contest.

1.Location. The contest was originally scheduled to be held at Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, where the Sanremo Music Festival takes place annually. This was meant for the organisers to pay tribute to the Italian festival that had inspired the creation of the Eurovision Song Contest. However, following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq and the outbreak of the Gulf War, the host broadcaster RAI decided in January 1991 that to better ensure the security of foreign delegations it would move the contest to Rome. This caused serious organisational problems and delays.

Rome is the capital of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale). Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region. Studio 15 of Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, was later confirmed as the new venue. With an area of 400,000 square metres, it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed during the fascist era as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry.

2.Contest overview. The presenters were Gigliola Cinquetti and Toto Cutugno, who represented Italy when they won Eurovision in 1964 and 1990 respectively. Cutugno opened the contest singing “Insieme: 1992”, and Cinquetti performed “Non ho l’età”. Cutugno had some difficulty with the pronunciation of the song titles and names of the artists and conductors. Despite this, in Italy almost seven million people watched the show. In addition to tallying the vote numbers in English and French, Cinquetti and Cutugno gave each of the jury allotments in Italian as well.

Nearly the entire contest was hosted in Italian, which is not an official language of the European Broadcasting Union (English and French are, and in the Eurovision Song Contest it is mandatory to provide presentation in at least one of those languages). The overall staging and production standard received considerable criticism afterwards, including for wasting time which saw the broadcast overshoot its scheduled time allotment and for the haphazard and casual approach of the two presenters throughout but particularly during the voting, which saw Frank Naef, the independent scrutineer of the European Broadcasting Union, often being required to intervene in the process.

Sara Carlson gave the opening performance of the contest, titled “New Day (Celebrate)”, a mixture of modern dance in ancient settings of ancient Rome. The performance featured Carlson singing, and a mixture of street dance and classical dance choreographed to popular sounding music of the time. At the time, Carlson had appeared numerous times on Italian television, and this was seen as one of her largest audiences.

This was the last contest where the official logo was in a language other than English (Italian in this case). Since 1992, the official logo of the Eurovision Song Contest has remained in English.

2.1.Postcards. The competing artists were asked to sing a known Italian song which would then be used as a short clip for the postcard. The songs were in order:

  1.  Yugoslavia – “Non ho l’età” (Gigliola Cinquetti)
  2. 🇮🇸 Iceland – “Se bastasse una canzone” (Eros Ramazzotti)
  3. 🇲🇹 Malta – “Questo piccolo grande amore” (Claudio Baglioni)
  4. 🇬🇷 Greece – “Caruso” (Lucio Dalla)
  5. 🇨🇭 Switzerland – “Un’estate italiana” (Edoardo Bennato and Gianna Nannini)
  6. 🇦🇹 Austria – “Adesso tu” (Eros Ramazzotti)
  7. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – “Sarà perché ti amo” (Ricchi e Poveri)
  8. 🇸🇪 Sweden – “Non voglio mica la luna” (Fiordaliso)
  9. 🇫🇷 France – “La partita di Pallone” (Rita Pavone)
  10. 🇹🇷 Turkey – “Amore scusami” (John Foster)
  11. 🇮🇪 Ireland – “Nel blu, dipinto di blu” (Domenico Modugno)
  12. 🇵🇹 Portugal – “Dio, come ti amo” (Domenico Modugno / Gigliola Cinquetti)
  13. 🇩🇰 Denmark – “Nessun dorma” (from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot)
  14. 🇳🇴 Norway – “Santa Lucia” (traditional)
  15. 🇮🇱 Israel – “Lontano dagli occhi” (Sergio Endrigo / Mary Hopkin)
  16. 🇫🇮 Finland – “Maruzzella” (Renato Carosone)
  17. 🇩🇪 Germany – “L’Italiano” (Toto Cutugno)
  18. 🇧🇪 Belgium – “Musica è” (Eros Ramazzotti)
  19. 🇪🇸 Spain – “Sono tremendo” (Rocky Roberts)
  20. 🇬🇧 United Kindom – “Ricordati di me” (Antonello Venditti)
  21. 🇨🇾 Cyprus – “Io che amo solo te” (Sergio Endrigo)
  22. 🇮🇹 Italy – “Champagne” (Peppino di Capri)

3.Participating countries. Twenty-two countries competed this year. The Netherlands did not participate as it conflicted with the Remembrance of the Dead national holiday, and so Malta was allowed to participate in the contest for the first time in 16 years, unable to before due to restrictions on the number of countries allowed to participate.

3.1.Conductors. Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.

  •  Yugoslavia – Slobodan Marković
  • 🇮🇸 Iceland – Jón Ólafsson 
  • 🇲🇹 Malta – Paul Abela
  • 🇬🇷 Greece – Haris Andreadis
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Flaviano Cuffari
  • 🇦🇹 Austria – Richard Oesterreicher
  • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – Francis Goya
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden – Anders Berglund
  • 🇫🇷 France – Jérôme Pillement
  • 🇹🇷 Turkey – Turhan Yükseler
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland – Noel Kelehan
  • 🇵🇹 Portugal – Fernando Correia Martins
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark – Henrik Krogsgaard 
  • 🇳🇴 Norway – Pete Knutsen 
  • 🇮🇱 Israel – Kobi Oshrat
  • 🇫🇮 Finland – Olli Ahvenlahti
  • 🇩🇪 Germany – Hermann Weindorf 
  • 🇧🇪 Belgium – Roland Verlooven 
  • 🇪🇸 Spain – Eduardo Leiva
  • 🇬🇧 United Kindom – Ronnie Hazlehurst
  • 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Alexander Kirov Zografov
  • 🇮🇹 Italy – Bruno Canfora

3.2.Returning artists.

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Thomas Forstner 🇦🇹 Austria 1989
Alexandros Panayi (backing singer) 🇨🇾 Cyprus 1989 (as backing singer for Fani Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis)
Stefán Hilmarsson (part of Stefán and Eyfi) 🇮🇸 Iceland 1988 (part of Beathoven)
Eiríkur Hauksson (part of Just 4 Fun) 🇳🇴 Norway 1986 (for 🇮🇸 Iceland, as part of ICY)
Hanne Krogh (part of Just 4 Fun) 1971, 1985 (part of Bobbysocks!)
Carola 🇸🇪 Sweden 1983

3.3.Participants and results.

3.4.All the national selections for Eurovision Song Contest 1991: 

• National Selections in 1991:

COUNTRY EVENT WINNER
🇦🇹 Austria (Austrian Selection 1991) Thomas Forstner – “Venedig im Regen“
🇧🇪 Belgium Euro-Clouseau (song selection) [a]  Clouseau – “Geef het op“
🇨🇾 Cyprus (Cypriot Selection 1991) Elena Patroclou – “S.O.S.”
🇩🇰 Denmark Melodi Grand Prix 1991 Anders Frandsen – “Lige der hvor hjertet slår“
🇫🇮 Finland (Finnish Selection 1991) Kaija Kärkinen – “Hullu yö“
🇩🇪 Germany Ein Lied für Rom Atlantis 2000 – “Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben“
🇬🇷 Greece Ellinikós Telikós 1991 Sofia Vossou – “I anixi” (Η άνοιξη)
🇮🇸 Iceland Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 1991 Stefán and Eyfi / Eyjólfur Kristjánsson & Stefán Hilmarsson – “Nína” / “Draumur um Ninu”
🇮🇪 Ireland (Irish Selection 1991) Kim Jackson – “Could It Be That I’m in Love”
🇮🇱 Israel Kdam Eurovision 1991 Duo Datz – “Kan” (כאן)
🇲🇹 Malta (Maltese Selection 1991) Paul Giordimaina & Georgina – “Could It Be” / “Sejjaħ u ssibni”
🇵🇹 Portugal Festival da Canção 1991 Dulce – “Lusitana paixão“
🇸🇪 Sweden Melodifestival 1991 Carola – “Fångad av en stormvind“
🇨🇭 Switzerland Concours Eurovision 1991 Sandra Simó – “Canzone per te“
🇹🇷 Turkey Şarkı Yarışması 1991 İzel, Reyhan & Can (İzel Çeliköz, Reyhan Karaca and Can Uğurluer) – “İki Dakika“
🇬🇧 United Kindom A Song for Europe 1991 Samantha Janus – “A Message to Your Heart”
 Yugoslavia Jugovizija 1991 Bebi Dol – “Brazil” (Бразил)

• Internal Selections in 1991:

🇫🇷 France Amina – “C’est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison“
🇮🇹 Italy Peppino di Capri – “Comme è ddoce ‘o mare“
🇱🇺 Luxembourg Sarah Bray – “Un baiser volé“
🇳🇴 Norway Just 4 Fun – “Mrs. Thompson”
🇪🇸 Spain Sergio Dalma – “Bailar pegados“

3.5.Connections:

4.Detailed voting results. Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs. During the final vote (Italy) none of the top three contenders – Sweden, Israel and France – had received any points up until the last 12-point vote. This vote went to France and for the first time in twenty-two years, there was a tie for first place, with France overcoming a large deficit to catch up with Sweden. However, since the four-way tie of 1969, the rules had been altered to ensure a single outright winner. The first step in the procedure was to check the number of 12-point votes awarded to each country. Sweden and France were still tied. But when counting the number of 10-point votes, Sweden had more and was finally declared the winner. Present-day tiebreaking rules establish that the entry which has received points from the most countries wins; this means that France would have won the 1991 contest under those rules (having received points from 18 out of 22 countries, vs. 17 for Sweden).

Detailed voting results
Total score
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  Yugoslavia 1 1
🇮🇸 Iceland 26 4 10 5 7
🇲🇹 Malta 106 1 2 6 4 10 12 2 7 12 7 6 10 4 6 7 10
🇬🇷 Greece 36 4 5 2 1 1 4 1 1 5 10 2
🇨🇭 Switzerland 118 5 5 7 8 12 8 4 2 2 6 5 3 8 5 6 12 8 8 4
🇦🇹 Austria 0
🇱🇺 Luxembourg 29 4 5 1 3 2 4 3 2 3 2
🇸🇪 Sweden 146 6 12 10 10 7 6 3 10 12 8 10 8 12 10 4 12 6
🇫🇷 France 146 10 7 3 8 7 12 5 7 5 12 12 10 8 7 8 6 7 12
🇹🇷 Turkey 44 7 7 8 7 2 5 8
🇮🇪 Ireland 47 3 4 3 1 8 4 7 1 2 2 5 4 3
🇵🇹 Portugal 62 8 4 1 2 7 10 5 1 2 7 10 4 1
🇩🇰 Denmark 8 3 5
🇳🇴 Norway 14 6 1 1 2 4
🇮🇱 Israel 139 12 10 8 5 8 5 6 3 12 8 4 10 7 6 8 12 10 5
🇫🇮 Finland 6 1 1 4
🇩🇪 Germany 10 6 1 3
🇧🇪 Belgium 23 3 2 5 3 3 2 5
🇪🇸 Spain 119 8 2 6 10 12 7 6 4 6 8 6 8 4 2 4 7 6 1 12
🇬🇧 United Kindom 47 10 3 5 6 3 1 1 3 5 3 1 6
🇨🇾 Cyprus 60 2 3 12 12 4 12 5 3 6 1
🇮🇹 Italy 89 7 2 6 2 8 10 10 12 10 3 12 7

4.1.Tiebreak results.

Place Country Artist Points 12 points 10 points
1 🇸🇪 Sweden Carola 146 4 5
2 🇫🇷 France Amina 146 4 2

4.2.12 points. Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
4 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇮🇱 Israel, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇳🇴 Norway
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇬🇧 United Kindom
3 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇫🇷 France, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇲🇹 Malta
🇮🇱 Israel 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇹🇷 Turkey,  Yugoslavia
2 🇮🇹 Italy  Finland, 🇵🇹 Portugal
🇲🇹 Malta 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇸🇪 Sweden
🇪🇸 Spain  Cyprus, 🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg

4.3.Spokespersons. Each country announced their votes in the order of performance. The following is a list of spokespersons who announced the votes for their respective country.

  •  Yugoslavia – Mebrura Topolovac
  • 🇮🇸 Iceland – Guðríður Ólafsdóttir
  • 🇲🇹 Malta – Dominic Micallef
  • 🇬🇷 Greece – Fotini Giannoulatou
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Michel Stocker
  • 🇦🇹 Austria – Gabriele Haring 
  • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – Jean-Luc Bertrand 
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden – Bo Hagström 
  • 🇫🇷 France – Daniela Lumbroso 
  • 🇹🇷 Turkey – Canan Kumbasar
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland – Eileen Dunne
  • 🇵🇹 Portugal – Maria Margarida Gaspar
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark – Bent Henius 
  • 🇳🇴 Norway – Sverre Christophersen 
  • 🇮🇱 Israel – Yitzhak Shim’oni
  • 🇫🇮 Finland – Heidi Kokki
  • 🇩🇪 Germany – Christian Eckhardt
  • 🇧🇪 Belgium – An Ploegaerts
  • 🇪🇸 Spain – María Ángeles Balañac
  • 🇬🇧 United Kindom – Colin Berry
  • 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Anna Partelidou
  • 🇮🇹 Italy – Rosanna Vaudetti

5.Broadcasts. National broadcasters were able to send a commentary team to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union via Intervision, and in Australia and South Korea.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) –
🇦🇹 Austria FS1 Herbert Dobrovolny
Hitradio Ö3 Walter Richard Langer 
🇧🇪 Belgium BRTN TV1 Dutch: André Vermeulen –
RTBF1 French: Claude Delacroix
BRTN Radio 2 Dutch: Julien Put and Marc Brillouet
RTBF La Première French: Stéphane Dupont
🇨🇾 Cyprus RIK Evi Papamichail
RIK Deftero Pavlos Pavlou
🇩🇰 Denmark DR TV Camilla Miehe-Renard 
DR P3 Camilla Miehe-Renard, Jesper Bæhrenz and Andrew Jensen 
🇫🇮 Finland YLE TV1 Erkki Pohjanheimo
Radiomafia Kai Ristola
🇫🇷 France Antenne 2 Léon Zitrone
France Inter Évelyne Dhéliat
🇩🇪 Germany Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen Max Schautzer
Deutschlandfunk/hr3 Ado Schlier 
🇬🇷 Greece ET1 Dafni Bokota
ERA 1 Giorgos Mitropoulos
🇮🇸 Iceland Sjónvarpið Arthúr Björgvin Bollason –
🇮🇪 Ireland RTÉ 1 Pat Kenny
RTÉ Radio 1 Larry Gogan
🇮🇱 Israel Israeli Television No commentator
Reshet Gimel Yigal Ravid
🇮🇹 Italy Rai Uno No commentator
Rai Radio 2 Antonio De Robertis and Peppi Franzelin 
🇱🇺 Luxembourg RTL Télévision Valérie Sarn 
RTL André Torrent 
🇲🇹 Malta TVM Toni Sant
🇳🇴 Norway NRK John Andreassen and Jahn Teigen
🇵🇹 Portugal RTP Canal 1 Ana do Carmo
Antena 2 TBC
🇪🇸 Spain TVE 2 Tomás Fernando Flores 
🇸🇪 Sweden TV2 Harald Treutiger
SR P3 Kalle Oldby and Rune Hallberg 
🇨🇭 Switzerland TV DRS German: Bernard Thurnheer 
TSR French: Lolita Morena
TSI Italian: Emanuela Gaggini
🇹🇷 Turkey TV1 Başak Doğru
TRT Radyo 3 Erhan Konuk
🇬🇧 United Kindom BBC1 Terry Wogan –
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce –
 Yugoslavia TVB 1 Serbo:Croatian: Mladen Popović
HTV 2 Serbo-Croatian: Ksenija Urličić –
TVS 1 Unknown
SLO 1 Slovene: Miša Molk

6.Notes.

3.5.Connections:

  • [a] Clouseau was internally selected to represent Belgium at Eurovision 1991. The song “Geef Het Op” that Clouseau would perform at Eurovision was selected through a show called Euro-Clouseau.

7.Trivial.

  • For the second time since 1956, the Netherlands decided to withdraw due to the country’s Remembrance Day.
  • Malta took the open spot which meant that the country was back for the first time since 1975.
  • Yugoslavia’s entry Baby Doll only got one single point from Malta but the extravagant act created a cult among fans.

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Countries (in order of appearance)
Final Yugoslavia ⦁ Iceland ⦁ Malta ⦁ Greece ⦁ Switzerland ⦁ Austria ⦁ Luxembourg ⦁ Sweden (winner) ⦁ France • Turkey ⦁ Ireland ⦁ Portugal ⦁ Denmark • Norway • Israel ⦁ Finland ⦁ Germany ⦁ Belgium ⦁ Spain ⦁ United Kingdom ⦁ Cyprus ⦁ Italy

Artists (in order of appearance)
Final Baby Doll ⦁ Stefán and Eyfi ⦁ Paul Giordimaina and Georgina ⦁ Sophia Vossou ⦁ Sandra Simó ⦁ Thomas Forstner ⦁ Sarah Bray ⦁ Carola (winner) ⦁ Amina ⦁ İzel Çeliköz, Reyhan Karaca and Can Uğurluer ⦁ Kim Jackson • Dulce ⦁ Anders Frandsen ⦁ Just 4 Fun ⦁ Duo Datz • Kaija ⦁ Atlantis 2000 ⦁ Clouseau • Sergio Dalma ⦁ Samantha Janus • Elena Patroklou ⦁ Peppino di Capri

Songs (in order of appearance)
Final “Brazil” (Бразил) ⦁ “Nína” ⦁ “Could It Be” ⦁ “I anixi” (Η άνοιξη) ⦁ “Canzone per te” ⦁ “Venedig im Regen” ⦁ “Un baiser volé” ⦁ “Fångad av en stormvind” (winner) ⦁ “C’est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison“ ⦁ “İki Dakika” ⦁ “Could It Be That I’m in Love” • “Lusitana paixão” ⦁ “Lige der hvor hjertet slår” ⦁ “Mrs. Thompson” ⦁ “Kan” (כאן) • “Hullu yö” • “Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben” • “Geef het op” • “Bailar pegados” • “A Message to Your Heart” • “SOS” • “Comme è ddoce ‘o mare“