Monday evening, Cristina Lora became the winner of the Operation Triumph 2025the second edition broadcast on Prime Video.
The 19-year-old Sevillian was right to choose for the Eurovision final a song with an electric chorus and a very theatrical setting, designed to conquer a massive audience in just two minutes: The brideby the Italian Agelina Mango.
Olivia, a 20-year-old from Madrid and finalist, dared to perform one of Celine Dion’s best-known and most intense songs, Everything comes back to me NOW. Despite the challenge, he showed signs of the stage experience he accumulated during these three months, which he once again expressed by recovering and ostensibly improving the song with which he debuted at the gala 0: Break free by Ariana Grande.

Tinho came in third place, while Guille Toledano finished fourth after playing Do what you want with me de Walls and Claudia Arenas finished fifth.
In addition to presenting this season’s anthem, titled this place and which is usually composed by the candidates during their stay at the Academy, the five finalists began the gala with a group performance covering Amaral’s song Marta, Sebas, Guille and the others.
This is an edition in which, from the first half, viewers were able to see the elimination of candidates who seemed a priori favorites to win. This was the case of Laura Muñoz, the sixth expelled. This was also the case for two of the participants who had shown more personality and more appeal since gala 0, Teyou and Guillo Rist.
Those who, on the other hand, have won the favor of the public over the weeks are the Galician Tinho and the Alicante Claudia Arenas. She has the most listened to edition on Spotify with the version she made of the song Latin girlby Émilie. The song entered the Spanish charts and has so far received over 3.3 million views. As if she already knew the appeal she has among listeners, Claudia shone this evening by performing To live like this is to die of loveby Camilo Sesto, in which he also integrated the recent version published by Nathy Peluso.

Tinho offered one of his most complete performances of the edition with I know Control by Teddy Swims. It was his own fellow finalists who cheered him the most when he was on stage, which says a lot about the candidate and an edition that was an example of healthy relationships between its young participants.
The last gala was not only a tribute to the five candidates who went the furthest. Half an hour before the broadcast began, around fifty people, members of the program’s technical team, crossed the podium to take a farewell family photo. But it was the candidates’ relatives, who appeared in several viral videos during their visit to the Academy this weekend, as well as the teachers, who drew applause from the public. “Sing everything. Shout everything,” the artist invited the audience in the pit. “Remember, today you are not an audience watching television from home. Today you are an audience making television.”
The edition ends, but the 16 competitors of Operation 2025 They will continue to work together. The program has so far signed 13 dates for a joint tour, which will take place in 2026. It will begin on March 18 in Bilbao and end on September 18 in Seville. Here is the complete list of appointments.
- Bilbao: March 18 – BEC!
- Towards La Coruña: March 19 – Colosseum
- Grenade: May 8 – Arenas
- Murcia: June 27 – Arenas
- Madrid: July 3 – Movistar Arena
- Barcelona: July 10 – Palau Sant Jordi
- Alicante: July 17 – El Muelle Live
- Valencia: July 18 – Roig Arena
- Santander: July 24 – Magdalena Live
- Fuengirola: July 31 – Marenostrum Fuengirola
- Cádiz (Chiclana): August 8 – Concert Music Festival
- Zaragoza: September 12 – Príncipe Pío/Felipe Pavilion
- Seville (Mairena del Aljarafe): September 18 – Equestrian Center