Dubai Opera, the ultimate performing arts destination, has announced that UK electronica star Bonobo aka Simon Green will take to the iconic stage for
an electrifying performance that will showcase his new Fragments album, an LP dedicated to nature and movement on 11 March 2023.
One of the biggest names in dance music, Green’s career includes seven GRAMMY nominations, having played huge arenas (selling out London’s Alexandra Palace three times, as well as Denver’s legendary Red Rock Amphitheatre, not to mention Glastonbury, Coachella, Lollapalooza, Primavera Sound and Fuji Rock) and most recently landing a top ten album in multiple countries, top five at home in the UK and a Billboard dance album number one in the US, with 2017’s Migration.
He has worked with the likes of Erykah Badu, Ólafur Arnalds, and Jon Hopkins, also proving a master remixer for artists including Michael Kiwanuka, Gorillaz, George Fitzgerald, and London Grammar.
Fragments is a huge event, destined to be one of the crossover electronic records of the year, and it might very well be Bonobo’s masterpiece, proving the most emotionally intense record he is yet to create.
Its electronic sounds are more powerfully hypnotic, the beauty of acoustic instruments is more exquisitely realised, the two are interwoven more totally – and the songs are unforgettable.
Its structures are full of tension and release on both an intimate and an elemental scale, it manages to touch on the most delicate and fleeting of emotions but also on existential terrors and an unabashed celebration of life in the face of fear and uncertainty. It’s truly a record for our times, that makes for a surging, joyous return.
It promises to be an epic performance on the Dubai Opera stage which will serve as a gorgeous reminder of how creativity and hope can emerge at the most unexpected moments out of struggle and disillusionment.
For more information and to book your tickets, visit https://www.dubaiopera.com/
