"Bohemian Rhapsody" is one of Queen's most popular hits, which is now celebrating in its 40th anniversary of release. Now, three of England's rising art groups, Royal Academy of Music, Trinity Boys Choir and English National Ballet have joined forced to reinterpret one of rock music's most popular hits into a ballet.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" has been given a delicate, ballet makeover as a recently shared video shows two ballet dancers, a string quarter and a choir tackling the 1975 A Night At The Opera track as its spliced with archival footage of the Christmas Eve performance Queen delivered the same year.
Becoming Christmas No. 1 that year, the single saw its original release on Oct. 21, 1975. Once it was re-released in 1991 the track rose to the charts once more and currently, it holds the title as third best-selling single in the U.K., Gigwise notes.
"We were just thinking, "This is fun, this is interesting, this'll be something that people enjoy." Freddie [Mercury] wrote it. Of course we all interacted, we all contributed bits and pieces and argued as we always did, but it was Freddie's baby and everyone respected that in the end. We had an unwritten law that whoever brought the song in would have the final say in how it turned out," Queen guitarist Brian May told Rolling Stone.
Former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert has stepped onstage to fill the rather impressive shoes of Mercury, the one performing to come close to his engaging stage presence and mesmerizing vocals. Queen + Adam Lambert will headline Isle of Weight Festival in 2016, the group's only UK show of the year.
A Freddie Mercury biopic has been in the work for the last few years, undergoing a few setbacks like the departure of actor Sacha Baron Cohen due to complications with the "Don't Stop Me Now" musicians. Now, Ben Whishaw is allegedly a top choice to portray Mercury in the film.
