Katy Perry, Lionel Ritchie and Andrea Bocelli will headline the concert celebrating Charles III’s coronation. be in the marked absence of a British megastar, the BBC announced on Friday, while the event currently draws little public enthusiasm.
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This eclectic poster will also bring together boy band Take That – in their current form and without their founder Robbie Williams – or even classical music composer Alexis Ffrench for the planned performance in front of 20,000 people at Windsor Castle on the outskirts of London, the day after the coronation.
“The concert will celebrate a new chapter in the nation’s history with themes of love, respect and optimism, celebrating the four nations, their communities and the Commonwealth,” said the BBC, which will broadcast the event.
There will also be a choir made up of amateurs from different communities: sea rescuers, taxi drivers and reggae groups, in addition to a virtual choir bringing together representatives of the Commonwealth, an alliance of nations made up mostly of former British colonies.
The announcement of the program for this concert confirms the press reports pointing to the refusal of the most important British stars to perform, such as Elton John, Adele, Ed Sheeran or Harry Styles.
Last year, Elizabeth II, Queen+, Adam Lambert, Duran Duran, Alicia Key, Rod Stewart and Diana Ross performed in front of Buckingham Palace for 70 years of reign. Elton John had recorded a tribute.
The coronation of Charles III, the first such event since Elizabeth’s in 1953, is not very exciting at the moment for Britons, who are worried about a year of rising prices causing a serious social crisis and a year away witnessed the jubilee of Elizabeth II last June, then her funeral in September.
Almost two-thirds of Brits (64%) and 75% of young people are not interested, according to a YouGov Institute poll published on Friday, but 46% think they will watch the programs or attend certain planned celebrations (holiday districts, etc. ).
The coronation itself, on May 6th at Westminster Abbey, will take place before 2,000 guests and is expected to last an hour, in a more modest format than that of Elizabeth II (8,000 guests and three hours).
Many royalty and foreign leaders will be in attendance, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, but US President Joe Biden will be represented by his wife Jill, and Prince Harry, who is at odds with the royal family, will be without his wife Meghan.