Are the Viennese a people who like to do what they are told? One could at least get the impression that this is the case on Sunday evening. When presenter Sylvia Graf gives an order at the opening ceremony for the Eurovision Song Contest, it is implemented flawlessly: “Be nice, be friendly,” she told the tens of thousands of people at Vienna’s Rathausplatz before the event began. Shortly before the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra intoned the Eurovision anthem.
