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CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT AT
HYDE PARK WINTER WONDERLAND
Simon Gordon and Daniel Wood of
Concerts by Candlelight are to present
Christmas by Candlelight at Hyde Park
Winter Wonderland – a magical singalong concert of festive songs at a
purpose-built and completely immersive
1000-seat ‘Candlelight Arena’ within
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland’s ‘Show
Town.’ The concerts will run from 5 – 23
December with a gala performance on
5 December.
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland,
London’s huge annual festive fairground
and Christmas festival, takes over Hyde
Park for six weeks in the run-up to
Christmas and New Year. This
December, it will feature performances
from some of the West End’s brightest
stars, including Rachel John, Dean
John-Wilson, Katie Hall and Tosh
Wanogho-Maud.
It’s beginning to look a lot like
Christmas! It’s time to join the starstudded cast of West End performers, for
a magical evening of festive hits,
performed live by candlelight. Direct
from London's West End, Christmas by
Candlelight is finally back.
This spellbinding cast, along with a
live band, will perform your favourite
Christmas hits for the biggest festive
sing-along extravaganza yet. Featuring
best loved classics, White Christmas,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
O Holy Night, Winter Wonderland and
many more, this uplifting sing-along
concert is the perfect way to celebrate a
Holly Jolly Christmas with the whole
family.
Daniel Wood said: ‘After 2 years of
sell-out shows in the West End with
Katie Hall
Rachel John
Tosh Wanogho-Maud
Dean John-Wilson
'Christmas by Candlelight', we are so
excited to be bringing the West End to
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland this
Christmas for 6 very special shows.
What a brilliant way to get into the festive
spirit – Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
and a sing-along Christmas show – we
can’t wait!’
Simon Gordon added: ‘These shows
will be so magical and festive, in one of
our purpose-built, fully immersive
candlelight arenas, the atmosphere is
going to be electric.’
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SAM FENDER’S PROPER MASSIVE
STADIUM TOUR 2027
Sam Fender is set for a huge Summer
in 2027 and has shared details for a
packed UK stadium tour. The tour will
call at six cities, including Sam’s biggest
headline shows to date at London’s
Wembley Stadium on 18 and 20 June.
Fender released his number one
selling, critically acclaimed third album
People Watching in 2025 via Polydor
Records. The album won the 2025
Mercury Prize, with Sam also picking
up a BRIT Award in 2025 and an Ivor
Award for Songwriter of the Year, since
its release.
He debuted People Watching’s 'Rein
Me In' alongside Olivia Dean at his
London Stadium Show to over 80,000
fans in June 2025, before it was released
as a duet later that month. In 2026, the
song took on a life of its own,
culminating in a record breaking
23 non-consecutive weeks at number
one, becoming the longest running
number one single in British history.
MONTEVERDI CHOIR PERFORM
HANDEL’S THEODORA
The Monteverdi Choir and English
Baroque Soloists continue their
collaboration with Christophe Rousset
for Handel’s Theodora in Oxford and
London on 18 and 19 November,
bringing an eight-city tour across South
America and Europe to a close.
With staging by Thomas Guthrie, the
international cast is led by Marie Lys as
Theodora, Alice Coote as Irene and
Iestyn Davies as Didymus, with Guy
Cutting as Septimius and John Chest as
Valens.
Written in 1749, Theodora tells of a
Christian woman and the Roman soldier
Didymus, whose devotion defies
imperial authority. Handel transforms
their story of faith, love and resistance to
state power into a work of exceptional
psychological and theatrical intensity,
combining luminous arias with some of
his most powerful and dramatically
charged choral writing.
Monteverdi Choir. Photo: Paul Marc Mitchell
For Theodora, Thomas Guthrie draws
the theatre directly from Handel’s score,
using the immediacy of concert
performance to bring the drama into
sharper focus. Recitative is treated as
dramatic prose, gesture and movement
illuminate the characters’ choices, and
the choir drives the action as both the
persecuted Christians and the Roman
populace.
Guthrie returns following his work on
Tavener’s Veil of the Temple and
Rossini’s Ermione last year, and his
highly acclaimed 2019 concert staging
of Handel’s Semele, which toured major
European venues.
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