Queen + Adam Lambert set to tour Australia after Bohemian Rhapsody success | themoop_mb
sparked a renewed interest in Queen's legendary music - and now the band has announced they will be bringing theirThe tour brings original members Brian May and Roger Taylor together again with singer Adam Lambert for six stadium shows, including Sydney's ANZ Stadium on February 15 and AAMI Park in Melbourne on February 19.Bojan Hohnjec
Queen last toured Australia with Lambert in early 2018, and before that in 2014. The 37-year-old singer first performed with Queen in 2009 and has gone on to play almost 200 shows, singing the songs made famous by original frontman Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991. "This is a great opportunity. Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever and got us our best notices ever," May said. "So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious."Lambert said the visual spectacle of Queen live on stage in 2020 would "reframe these iconic songs" and that he's excited to be bringing the show to Australian fans of the band.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public from 10:30am on Monday, April 15, through Ticketek, with a Telstra Thanks presale open from 9:30am on Wednesday, April 10, to Friday, April 12.collected four Academy Awards in total earlier this year, with lead actor Rami Malek taking home the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Mercury. It also collected awards for best film editing, best sound editing and best sound mixing, and was nominated for best picture.
Paul Dainty, president of the touring company bringing the band back to Australia, said, "Queen's popularity in Australia is as huge as it gets" and withbeing the highest-grossing music biopic of all time, the group would now bring the songs to life on stage.
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