Opera star Russell ‘The Voice’ Watson to star in Les Miserables
Following on from the announcement of his new album ‘Only One Man’ renown tenor Russell Watson is ready to star on the London stage in Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s longest running musical, Les Miserables at the Queens theatre in London’s West End.
Russell Watson to star in Les Miserables at the Queen’s theatre in London
Russell Watson has recorded an album of songs from two of the most prolific songwriters in the world; the composer and lyricist of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. He was given complete access to their catalogue of songs, including songs from “Les Misérables”, ‘Miss Saigon” and “Martin Guerre.” As well as this, Claude-Michel has written brand new songs specifically for Russell with poignant lyrics that tell the story of Russell’s life.
The new album is due for release the 11th November and includes Russell’s version of ‘Bring Him Home’. Russell has notched up previous album sales of over seven million.
This will be Russell’s West End stage debut after holding talks with the show’s producer, Sir Cameron Mackintosh. Russell said “I went to see Cameron Mackintosh about doing Les Miserables, we’ve had a good chat about that. It’s something I’d like to do. It would give me a huge amount of satisfaction to play a role like Valjean. I would do it in the West End, towards the end of 2014.”
Russell has been encouraged to take the role by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and will it is news that will no doubt please the legions of Russell’s fans. Russell added, “Claude-Michel keeps saying, ‘When are you going to do Valjean?’ He said I’d be perfect because I now have the life experience to draw on. Valjean is a tortured soul”.
The world-renown tenor suffered two near-fatal brain tumors the first in 2005 and the most recent in 2007, but he has since gone on to record and release a number of new albums following his recovery.
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