Lloyd Webber music tour after new album release
There will be a chance to hear the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber in a way that you have never heard before. Three newly-orchestrated symphonic suites from a selection of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best loved musicals – Evita, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard, will be performed for the very first time by the 81-piece Andrew Lloyd Webber Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall on September 8.
The concert will follow the release of the accompanying album, Andrew Lloyd Webber - Symphonic Suites, by Decca Records on September 3. A vinyl version will follow on October 29.
The orchestra performing the Symphonic Suites, conducted by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-time collaborator Simon Lee, brings together some of the world’s most skilled musicians, united in an event which will mark the triumphant return of live music after the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Symphonic Suites will also tour the UK during 2022.
Accompanied by local orchestras, these dates include Manchester Bridgewater Hall on September 17 2022, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on September 18 2022, Cardiff St David’s Hall on September 24 2022, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall on September 30 2022 and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on October 1 2022.
A jubilant Lloyd Webber said: “For over a year now, we have lived without the joy of live music.
“As we fight to bring performers back to work and theatres back to life, I hope that this album might now take on a new meaning: the music which represents the triumphant and hopeful return of live music, theatre and entertainment across the world.
“It is wonderful and very moving for me to see brilliant musicians back where they belong.”
This year Phantom of the Opera celebrates a successful 35 years in the West End while the filmed production
of Sunset Boulevard, which
first opened in London in 1993 at Leicester Curve, was re-released for audiences to view between May 10 to 15 this year.
Evita has been running in the West End for 43 years, charting the amazing life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón.
The musical began as a rock opera concept album released in 1976.
Its success led to productions in London’s West End in 1978, and to its winning the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical, and on Broadway a year later, where it was the first British musical to receive the Tony Award for Best Musical.
The new shows are scheduled as follows ...
2021
September 8 - Royal Festival Hall London with the
Andrew Lloyd Webber Orchestra
Tickets available at Southbankcentre.co.uk, ticketmaster.co.uk and myticket. co.uk.
2022
September 17 - Manchester Bridgewater Hall with the Halle Orchestra
September 18 - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
September 24 - Cardiff St David’s Hall with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
September 30 - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall with the Halle Orchestra
October 1 - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Tickets are available at ticketmaster.co.uk, ticketline.co.uk, myticket.co.uk and from all venue box offices.