Fredrik Stormby, the man in charge of the lighting and content, collaborated with Beyoncé on her highly regarded Renaissance World Tour the previous year and is used to keeping behind-the-scenes details private.
“We’ll observe the outcome,” he says to News. It’s important to remember, too, that in addition to his work on Eurovision both this year and last, he also directs lighting for Abba Voyage with Queen Bey.
He is so well-suited to transport virtual representations of the Swedish supergroup, known as “Abbatars,” to the Swedish city of Malmo.
If anything, I think we could divert the conversation from the geopolitics that are dominating this year’s exhibition (resistance to Israel has been observed).