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.

Setlist

1. Love Wins Over Glamour

Media

• Terra's YouTube Playlist
• 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 (incl. iPhone-compatible MP4 version)
  • Love Wins Over Glamour audio, made by Terra using the 448kbps AC3 audio
    (note: this song will be available on iTunes soon, but I'm sharing it anyway since this audio is interrupted by ceremony commentators' dialogue)
• Life Ball 2013 information
• Live Ball streams:
  • Prelude
  • Red Carpet
  • Opening Ceremony
• Love Wins Over Glamour info
• MP4 rip of Love Wins Over Glamour promo (Original source, no longer available)
• Life Ball promo picture
• "Tausend und eine schrille Nacht", Klein Zeitung, 26 May 2013 (great photos of Adam here)