Platinum Party at the Palace, is a big party (in music) for the queen

T he highlight of the third day of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations Elizabeth has arrived. The live concert Platinum Party at the Palace – organized by the BBC a Buckingham Palace, the royal palace which has been the heart of the British monarchy since 1837. One of the most anticipated events of the celebrations. Which certainly will not disappoint expectations. During the show in front of the former residence of His Majesty – than according to the British press the concert will follow live on TV from Windsorwhere it has moved permanently for months now – artists such as the Queen, Alicia Keys, Hans Zimmer, Ella Eyre, Craig David, Mabel, Elbow, George Ezra, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart, Andrea Bocelli And Sam Ryder, fresh from the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin where he ranked second for the United Kingdom. Yesterday’s stars and new talents, expression of seventy years of history in music to celebrate the seventy years on the throne of Elizabeth II. The show’s grand finale is entrusted to Diana Ross, who thus returns to perform live in the United Kingdom fifteen years after the last time. While Sir Elton John will appear in a recorded performance specifically for the occasion. In total, during the two and a half hour mega concert, they will perform over 30 artists and performers – ranging from pop to rock through classical music – ahead of approx 22 thousand spectators in celebration including the Prince Charles with Camilla of Cornwall, William And Kate Middleton with the children George and Charlottethe Princess Anna with husband Timothy Lawrence, Mike And Zara Tindall, Sophie Wessex And Beatrice of York (you see gallery under).

During the great evening, as well as for the notes, there will be space for the homage to the queen of Charles and William. And for the great protagonists of the world of show and of sport English. As the tennis player Emma Raducanuthe former footballer David Beckhamactor and writer Stephen Fry, Academy Award winner Dame Julie Andrews and former Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds.

The staging of the concert is also impressive: i three stagesconnected to each other by catwalks, they shone thanks to 70 columns, symbol of the 70 years of the queen’s reign, which lit up progressively. Two of the boxes were immediately in front of Buckingham Palace, which has never happened before: on the left was the box where the 75 members of the Orchestra of the Household Division took their seats; on the right the «Pop» stage supported by LED screens. Not only: the entire facade of Buckingham Palace, covered with a video-mapping projection, was transformed, for one night, into the largest screen in the United Kingdom. In short, the Platinum Party at the Palace is an unprecedented colossal in the Windsor Jubilee celebrations. As unprecedented is the achievement of the queen of records: first sovereign to cut 7 decades of reign.

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