Audra McDonald Live in Concert London 17th January 2015
Due to incredible demand from the Brits Audra has added an extra Matinee to her London performance, now with matinee and evening 17th January at the Leicester Square Theatre London. It has been more than a decade since McDonald has graced a London stage.
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Producer Ollie Rosenblatt commented: It’s wonderful to be welcoming Audra back to the UK after so many years, and it’s a great pleasure to be adding a second show.
This is McDonald’s first London show in 15 years, the gifted soprano last appeared on the London stage in 2002 when she became only the second American invited to be guest soloist at the Last Night of the Proms in over a century.
In what is being billed as an intimate show, McDonald’s 2016 return to the West End will feature material from a wide range of both familiar and lesser-known composers.
Classically trained at New York’s prestigious Juilliard School, McDonald has appeared with some of the world’s most famous orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. The singer’s glittering career has also included starring roles in many of Broadway’s biggest shows (Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, Porgy and Bess, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill), a successful recording career and an incredible 17 performances at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall.
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry, as both a singer and an actress. With a record six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a long list of other accolades to her name, she is among today’s most highly regarded performers. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth telling, she is equally at home on Broadway and opera stages as she is in roles on film and television. In addition to her theatrical work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world.
On the concert stage, McDonald has premiered music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams and sung with virtually every major American orchestra including the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony and under such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Leonard Slatkin. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1998 with the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas in a season-opening concert that was broadcast live on PBS. Internationally, she has sung at the BBC Proms in London (where she was only the second American in more than 100 years invited to appear as a guest soloist at the Last Night of the Proms) and at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, as well as the London Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic.
