Wanted: 18,000 classical music fans for O2 big, brash gig

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Pollstar found this 5/1/2008 on entertainment.timesonline.co.uk [flag]
There will be naked dancing girls, bungee ropes, a four-storey tower wreathed in fireworks and the theme from the Old Spice adverts amplified so that 18,000 people can hear it. Puritannical music lovers should probably run for the hills: the stadium classical music gig is coming to Britain. O2 , the concert venue in the former Millennium Dome, announced yesterday that it will stage a ... [link]

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The Closing Bell
Published 5/1/2008 at Pollstar
... . Link-O-Rama … First of all, imagine a concert at a major indoor arena featuring naked dancing girls, bungee ropes and fireworks. Now, imagine all that at a classical music concert. Yeah, we couldn't either, but it's happening next year at London's O2 - The Times Online U.K. Featured in an anti-piracy film presented by the Australian music industry, ...

Naked girls and giant puppets - it must be classical
Published 5/1/2008 by George Hall at Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk
... plan to present Carmina Burana in a mega-staged production at the O2 Arena ? Good luck to them - it might turn out to be the ideal venue for it. Gubbay, after all, has already successfully presented Carl Orff's 1937 "scenic cantata" umpteen times at the Royal Albert Hall - admittedly a mere fraction of the ...