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Cirque du Soleil at Royal Albert Hall
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20/01/2025
We review Corteo - Cirque du Soleil’s latest show at London’s most iconic venue and deep dive into the history of the show in London.
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Hello, I'm here at the Royal Albert Hall, one of London's most iconic venues,
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which will be home to one of the world's most iconic shows, Cirque du Soleil.
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Last year, Cirque du Soleil excited Londoners with their musical and acrobatic production of
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Allegria, and this year, in 2025, the Elevated Circus returns with a new production,
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Corteo, and I was lucky enough to go to the premiere of the show this month,
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and it made for quite a different production than the ones normally put on at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Corteo has a very Italian, Mediterranean feel, and there is a first of its kind at the Royal
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Albert Hall. The stage is central in the arena and divides the venue from the Royal Albert Hall's
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organ in a straight line to door six entrance, with each half of the audience facing the other
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half, which at first is quite jarring as an audience member, but it definitely offers a
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unique and interactive atmosphere for sure. Cirque du Soleil started its much-loved annual residency
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at the Royal Albert Hall in 1996, and it's now a staple of the entertainment calendar here.
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I had previously caught up with some of the stars of Allegria in their last production.
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Here is what they had to say about performing at the iconic Royal Albert Hall.
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So, Ahmed, how does it feel to be playing at the Royal Albert Hall and in London?
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Oh my goodness, you know, it's kind of a dream come true, you know, it's such an amazing place,
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you know, such a history in this place. There's so much meaning in it, you know, the story,
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everything, so for us performers, you know, all the greatest performers have been here,
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and, you know, makes you feel kind of like a great one too.
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But no, to me, it's amazing, it's just something that we were waiting for so long, you know,
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so we're finally here, finally our training's here, and I just can't wait to perform,
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it's really a dream come true.
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Amazing, and I saw that, so you started trapezing when you were
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five years old, can you just talk to me about how you kind of got into it?
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Well, I'm a third generation of circus family, so I was kind of born into it,
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and of course trapeze has been my passion since I've been five, six years old that my brothers
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started doing it, we are five brothers.
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And do all your brothers do it as well?
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All of my brothers do it, yeah, here I only have two brothers performing with me,
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so to me, you know, it's just part of my life already, but it's something that I've
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fallen in love with since I was a kid, you know, I've been performing since I'm 10 years old,
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so it's been quite a while, you know, it's been a long ride, but for sure an amazing one.
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It's amazing, because, you know, we're traveling, Cirque du Soleil has different touring shows that
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travel the world, and each show is on for anywhere between 10 years or 20 years,
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so it's really long runs, and we spend basically 52 weeks a year, all together,
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traveling around, performing and mesmerizing thousands of audience members.
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