2013-05-25 Life Ball 2013

Date: May 25, 2013 Event: Life Ball 2013 Type: Opening Ceremony Televised: Yes Venue: Rathaus (City Hall Square) City: Vienna Country: Austria

Highlights

Source: Klein Zeitung

Source: Klein Zeitung

The Life Ball is one of the biggest AIDS charity events in the world. Held annually, the event serves not only to fund raise for important aid projects, but also to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and fight against its taboo status in society.

Tonight, Adam performs "Love Wins Over Glamour", the official song of Life Ball 2013, for its opening ceremony. The song is written by Werner Stranka and Martin Gellner and is produced by BEAT4FEET. Adam also contributes to the song with some lyrics of his own.

The inspiration of the ball is "1001 Nights", linking Life Ball with the idea of "saving lives with imagination". For "Love Wins Over Glamour", Adam takes on the role of Ali Baba who is under the spell of the treasure of 40 thieves. Accompanied by the thieves' dancing, he yells the magic words "Open Sesame" at the end of the song, revealing the Life Ball stage that is concealed by the doors of a large dome.

Life Ball cocktail

Setlist

1. Love Wins Over Glamour

Media

• Terra's YouTube Playlist
• Life Ball 2013 information
• HD720p TS caps recorded by dylwys, courtesy of LaStupenda (13.1 Mbps H.264; four 48kHz stereo audio channels: 256kbps MP2; 192Kbps MP2; 448 Kbps AC3; 192Kbps MP2):
  • Red carpet interview
  • Love Wins Over Glamour performance
  • Love Wins Over Glamour performance edited to include studio audio and English subs (minimal audience noise at the end of the track) (incl. iPhone-compatible MP4 version) *NEW*
• Complete MP4 video rips of Live Ball from ORF TVthek by Terra, 25 May 2013 (resolution: 960x544; English/German subs available; lyrics have been fixed)
  Note: Links to original sources, no longer available: Prelude; Red Carpet; Opening Ceremony
• Studio version of Love Wins Over Glamour
• MP4 rip of Love Wins Over Glamour studio footage from Seitenblicke at ORF TVthek by LaStupenda, 11 May 2013
  Note: Original source, no longer available
• Love Wins Over Glamour info
• Red Bull: Life Ball highlights video, 29 May 2013
• ET Canada Video: Sangita Patel Takes On the Vienna Life Ball, 27 May 2013 | Blog
• ATV Hi Society video, 27 May 2013
• Society24: The Life Ball Plane has Landed, 24 May 2013
• krone.at: The Many Costume Variations on the Theme "1001 Nights", 26 May 2013
• Life Ball promo picture
• "Tausend und eine schrille Nacht", Klein Zeitung, 26 May 2013 (great photos of Adam here)