Our Planet to become live concert at 3Arena

GEAlive and MCD Productions are delighted to announce a spectacular new live experience, Our Planet Live in Concert. The production will reimagine the Emmy Award®- winning series as a live experience, combining highlights from the series with some brand new arrangements to create an immersive journey across Our Planet. Specially developed by the series producers Silverback Films, and Oscar®-winning composer Steven Price, Our Planet Live in Concert is narrated on screen by legendary broadcaster, David Attenborough. Combining the outstanding natural world visuals of Our Planet with creative innovations in live production, this concert will be a live experience like no other. Our Planet Live in Concert will tour international arenas with the Irish premiere in Dublin at 3Arena on 16th October 2020. The landmark eight-part Our Planet documentary series is being reimagined into a two-hour arena show with beautiful visual and sound effects and will be accompanied by a breathtaking 66-piece orchestra and live vocalist, Lisa Hannigan. Three giant screens will present the incredible cinematography of Our Planet on a scale that has never been seen before, allowing audiences to be fully immersed into the wonders of the Earth’s wildlife and their habitats. Intelligent lighting will heighten the visual experience beyond the screens and around the arena, programmed to run in sync with the footage. All net profits from the Our Planet live project will be donated to WWF’s global Our Planet education and awareness initiatives. These include providing a wealth of educational materials for schools and young people, based on the series, with the aim to inspire and motivate the next generation to protect our planet. Our Planet took the world by storm when it was released in April 2019. Taking viewers on a spectacular journey of discovery, showcasing the beauty and increased fragility of our natural world, the series explores the fact that humans have become the greatest threat to the survival of our planet, and all the species that inhabit it. The series also highlights the fact that there is still time to address the challenges that we have created, if we act now. It helped people to understand what is at stake and realise how imperative it was to lobby businesses and governments to start paying attention. Our Planet Live in Concert brings together some of the world’s greatest creatives, filmmakers, musicians and conservationists to provide an experience like no other. Concert producer Floris Douwes at GEAlive commented, “All past and current natural history shows offer an orchestra with video clippings on a screen and static overhead lighting. Our Planet Live in Concert truly is an event! Audiences will feel like they are fully taken in by it. Three large screens will provide razor sharp video footage from across the series, in a narrative that is exclusive to this live event, interspersed with live camera direction of the orchestra and soloist performances. A huge quantity of smart lighting fixtures will extend the visual experience throughout the arena. Add a sound system that surrounds the audience with effects from 36 positions and nature will be as close as it can get. Last but certainly not least, we are thrilled and honored that David Attenborough has agreed to record an exclusive audio-visual narration especially for the live show.” Colin Butfield, Executive Producer for Our Planet at WWF, said “We’ve seen first-hand the impact this series has generated by showcasing the wonders of our planet while also addressing the urgent need to protect it for future generations. We hope to elevate this message and deepen the audience’s engagement with the natural world by bringing the documentary into the event space on such a phenomenal scale.” Alastair Fothergill of Silverback Films is a pioneer in creating concerts around landmark wildlife series with his previous projects Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet. He says, “ Our Planet will be the most ambitious concert performances we have ever created combining the advanced sound and visual technology with Steven Price’s wonderful score and the powerful images from the series. We are very excited by the ambition of the Our Planet concerts to take the quality of the audience experience to a new level”. Composer Steven Price’s Emmy®-nominated score has been reworked for an epic two-hour performance and will be performed by an orchestra, Irish vocalist Lisa Hannigan will sing alongside the 66-strong orchestra as music and special effects are delivered through 250 speakers to create a complete surround sound experience for the audience, allowing them to be further immersed in the production. Academy Award®-winning composer Steven Price said “I can’t wait to bring the music of Our Planet to live audiences for the very first time. Using a combination of the most memorable sequences from the Netflix series exclusively designed for this show, our incredible musicians and I plan to take you on a journey that celebrates the wonders of our planet- the one home we all share- whilst showing the urgent need to treasure and protect it. It’s going to be an emotional and immersive experience and I hope to see you there.” The ground-breaking Our Planet series premiered on Netflix in April 2019 to a global audience in 190 countries worldwide. It focuses on the breadth of the diversity of habitats around the world - from the remote Arctic wilderness and mysterious deep oceans to the vast landscapes of Africa and diverse jungles of South America - giving an unprecedented look at the planet’s most precious species and fragile landscapes. More than just a showcase of the Earth’s natural wonders, the series also reveals why the natural world matters to us all and what steps must be taken to preserve it. Our Planet was watched by 33 million households in the first month of its release inspiring people around the world to connect to the one place we all call home. Tickets for Our Planet Live in Concert cost from €67 including booking fee, and are available now. ENDS Notes to Editors: About David Attenborough, on screen narrator David Frederick Attenborough’s broadcasting career spans six decades. He has played an extraordinary role in both reinventing and developing the medium of television, and in connecting people to the wonders of the natural world, bringing distant peoples, animals and habitats into living rooms across the planet. As a BBC producer and executive, he has played a crucial part in creating new forms of programming and scheduling that to this day influence global broadcasting. His work includes many iconic productions such as Life on Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials of Life, Life of Mammals, The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet. About Steven Price, composer Steven Price is an Academy Award®-winning composer. In 2014, his ground-breaking score for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity garnered award wins in the “Best Original Score” category for the Academy Awards®, BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice, and ASCAP’s first-ever “Film Composer of the Year” award. Other prominent projects include Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (2017) and The World’s End (2013), Warner Brothers’ blockbuster hit Suicide Squad (2016), and the WWII epic Fury (2014), written and directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt. Television credits include Believe (2014), a drama series produced by Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams for NBC, and the BBC’s The Hunt (2015), a landmark natural history documentary series for which Price won his second BAFTA Award. Price’s debut feature score was for Joe Cornish’s 2011 feature Attack the Block. The score earned Price the award for “Best Original Soundtrack” from both the Austin Film Critics Association and the Sitges Film Festival. 2019 projects include Amazon Studios The Aeronauts, Paramount Animation’s Wonder Park, and Our Planet with Netflix. For his work on Our Planet, Price received Primetime Emmy nominations in the “Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary” and in the “Outstanding Original main Title Theme Music’ categories. About Lisa Hannigan, vocalist Lisa Hannigan first came to light as a somewhat mysterious figure singing harmonies alongside Damien Rice. They played together for seven years, but it wasn’t until the release of her solo debut Sea Sew that the full spectrum of her abilities became apparent. Lisa has since been stretching her musical expertise, collaborating with artists as diverse as Ray LaMontagne, Herbie Hancock and Glen Hansard. She made an acting debut in the Oscar®-nominated Song of the Sea, and her haunting voice featured on soundtracks for the TV series Fargo and the Oscar®-winning score for Gravity, all the while founding and co-hosting the acclaimed Soundings podcast. About Floris Douwes and GEALive, producer Alongside partners Ton Olgers and Julia Krylova, Floris heads up GEALive, a company that designs, produces and delivers creative live entertainment projects of all sizes. Recent and current projects include the world arena tours for legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, a collaboration with Graceland on Elvis Live on Screen with Symphony Orchestra and hosted by Priscilla Presley, a career retrospective tour of Hollywood composer James Newton Howard and the first ever live tour of the multi Oscar® and Grammy award-winning pioneer of dance music, Giorgio Moroder. About Ollie Rosenblatt and Senbla, producer for the UK Founded in 2011, Senbla has grown to become a national market leader in promoting and producing live music and other successful arts events, working across more than 200 concerts and shows per year throughout the UK. From artist touring and presentation, concert series, films in concert, holograms, musicals, theatre and family entertainment, Senbla provides a unique and bespoke approach to every show. It strives to add value for its clients and often helps clients to conceptualise their shows and thus realise their vision. It works across a spectrum of genres with a wide range of international artists such as Diana Ross, Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone, Burt Bacharach, George Benson, Marc Almond, Soft Cell, Joss Stone and many others as well as leading productions such as The Apollo Nights Summer Series and film with live orchestra shows- Star Wars In Concert Franchise, Harry Potter in Concert Franchise, Beauty and The Beast, Love Actually, Blade Runner, musicals ‘Hair’, operas Madame Butterfly and La Boheme and family show Circus 1903. About Silverback Films Silverback Films specialises in the production of high quality wildlife films for both television and cinema. Formed in 2012 by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, Silverback Films brings together a world class team of wildlife film makers to create the highest quality natural history films. Its productions include cinema films for Disneynature, African Cats, Chimpanzee, Bears, Monkey Kingdom and Dolphin Reef and television series North America (Discovery) The Hunt (BBC) and Our Planet (Netflix). About WWF WWF is one of the world’s largest independent conservation organisations, with more than five million supporters and a global network active in more than one hundred countries. Through our engagement with the public, businesses and government, we focus on safeguarding the natural world, creating solutions to the most serious environmental issues facing our planet, so that people and nature thrive. Find out more about our work, past and present on the WWF website.NARRATED ON SCREEN BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGH WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA 16 OCTOBER 2020

GEAlive and MCD Productions are delighted to announce a spectacular new live experience, Our Planet Live in Concert. The production will re-imagine the Emmy Award®- winning series as a live experience, combining highlights from the series with some brand new arrangements to create an immersive journey across Our Planet.

Specially developed by the series producers Silverback Films, and Oscar®-winning composer Steven Price, Our Planet Live in Concert is narrated on screen by legendary broadcaster, David Attenborough. Combining the outstanding natural world visuals of Our Planet with creative innovations in live production, this concert will be a live experience like no other.

Our Planet Live in Concert will tour international arenas with the Irish premiere in Dublin at 3Arena on 16th October 2020.

The landmark eight-part Our Planet documentary series is being reimagined into a two-hour arena show with beautiful visual and sound effects and will be accompanied by a breathtaking 66-piece orchestra and live vocalist, Lisa Hannigan. Three giant screens will present the incredible cinematography of Our Planet on a scale that has never been seen before, allowing audiences to be fully immersed into the wonders of the Earth’s wildlife and their habitats. Intelligent lighting will heighten the visual experience beyond the screens and around the arena, programmed to run in sync with the footage.

All net profits from the Our Planet live project will be donated to WWF’s global Our Planet education and awareness initiatives. These include providing a wealth of educational materials for schools and young people, based on the series, with the aim to inspire and motivate the next generation to protect our planet.

Our Planet took the world by storm when it was released in April 2019. Taking viewers on a spectacular journey of discovery, showcasing the beauty and increased fragility of our natural world, the series explores the fact that humans have become the greatest threat to the survival of our planet, and all the species that inhabit it. The series also highlights the fact that there is still time to address the challenges that we have created, if we act now. It helped people to understand what is at stake and realise how imperative it was to lobby businesses and governments to start paying attention.

Our Planet Live in Concert brings together some of the world’s greatest creatives, filmmakers, musicians and conservationists to provide an experience like no other.

Concert producer Floris Douwes at GEAlive commented, “All past and current natural history shows offer an orchestra with video clippings on a screen and static overhead lighting. Our Planet Live in Concert truly is an event! Audiences will feel like they are fully taken in by it. Three large screens will provide razor sharp video footage from across the series, in a narrative that is exclusive to this live event, interspersed with live camera direction of the orchestra and soloist performances. A huge quantity of smart lighting fixtures will extend the visual experience throughout the arena. Add a sound system that surrounds the audience with effects from 36 positions and nature will be as close as it can get. Last but certainly not least, we are thrilled and honored that David Attenborough has agreed to record an exclusive audio-visual narration especially for the live show.”

Colin Butfield, Executive Producer for Our Planet at WWF, said “We’ve seen first-hand the impact this series has generated by showcasing the wonders of our planet while also addressing the urgent need to protect it for future generations. We hope to elevate this message and deepen the audience’s engagement with the natural world by bringing the documentary into the event space on such a phenomenal scale.” 

Alastair Fothergill of Silverback Films is a pioneer in creating concerts around landmark wildlife series with his previous projects Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet. He says, “ Our Planet will be the most ambitious concert performances we have ever created combining the advanced sound and visual technology with Steven Price’s wonderful score and the powerful images from the series. We are very excited by the ambition of the Our Planet concerts to take the quality of the audience experience to a new level”.

Composer Steven Price’s Emmy®-nominated score has been reworked for an epic two-hour performance and will be performed by an orchestra, Irish vocalist Lisa Hannigan will sing alongside the 66-strong orchestra as music and special effects are delivered through 250 speakers to create a complete surround sound experience for the audience, allowing them to be further immersed in the production.

Academy Award®-winning composer Steven Price said “I can’t wait to bring the music of Our Planet to live audiences for the very first time. Using a combination of the most memorable sequences from the Netflix series exclusively designed for this show, our incredible musicians and I plan to take you on a journey that celebrates the wonders of our planet- the one home we all share- whilst showing the urgent need to treasure and protect it. It’s going to be an emotional and immersive experience and I hope to see you there.”

The ground-breaking Our Planet series premiered on Netflix in April 2019 to a global audience in 190 countries worldwide. It focuses on the breadth of the diversity of habitats around the world – from the remote Arctic wilderness and mysterious deep oceans to the vast landscapes of Africa and diverse jungles of South America – giving an unprecedented look at the planet’s most precious species and fragile landscapes. More than just a showcase of the Earth’s natural wonders, the series also reveals why the natural world matters to us all and what steps must be taken to preserve it. Our Planet was watched by 33 million households in the first month of its release inspiring people around the world to connect to the one place we all call home.

Tickets for Our Planet Live in Concert cost from €67 including booking fee, and are available now.

Notes to Editors:

About David Attenborough, on screen narrator

David Frederick Attenborough’s broadcasting career spans six decades. He has played an extraordinary role in both reinventing and developing the medium of television, and in connecting people to the wonders of the natural world, bringing distant peoples, animals and habitats into living rooms across the planet. As a BBC producer and executive, he has played a crucial part in creating new forms of programming and scheduling that to this day influence global broadcasting. His work includes many iconic productions such as Life on Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials of Life, Life of Mammals, The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet.

About Steven Price, composer

Steven Price is an Academy Award®-winning composer. In 2014, his ground-breaking score for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity garnered award wins in the “Best Original Score” category for the Academy Awards®, BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice, and ASCAP’s first-ever “Film Composer of the Year” award.

Other prominent projects include Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (2017) and The World’s End (2013), Warner Brothers’ blockbuster hit Suicide Squad (2016), and the WWII epic Fury (2014), written and directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt. Television credits include Believe (2014), a drama series produced by Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams for NBC, and the BBC’s The Hunt (2015), a landmark natural history documentary series for which Price won his second BAFTA Award.

Price’s debut feature score was for Joe Cornish’s 2011 feature Attack the Block. The score earned Price the award for “Best Original Soundtrack” from both the Austin Film Critics Association and the Sitges Film Festival. 2019 projects include Amazon Studios The Aeronauts, Paramount Animation’s Wonder Park, and Our Planet with Netflix. For his work on Our Planet, Price received Primetime Emmy nominations in the “Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary” and in the “Outstanding Original main Title Theme Music’ categories.

About Lisa Hannigan, vocalist

Lisa Hannigan first came to light as a somewhat mysterious figure singing harmonies alongside Damien Rice. They played together for seven years, but it wasn’t until the release of her solo debut Sea Sew that the full spectrum of her abilities became apparent. Lisa has since been stretching her musical expertise, collaborating with artists as diverse as Ray LaMontagne, Herbie Hancock and Glen Hansard. She made an acting debut in the Oscar®-nominated Song of the Sea, and her haunting voice featured on soundtracks for the TV series Fargo and the Oscar®-winning score for Gravity, all the while founding and co-hosting the acclaimed Soundings podcast.

About Floris Douwes and GEALive, producer

Alongside partners Ton Olgers and Julia Krylova, Floris heads up GEALive, a company that designs, produces and delivers creative live entertainment projects of all sizes. Recent and current projects include the world arena tours for legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, a collaboration with Graceland on Elvis Live on Screen with Symphony Orchestra and hosted by Priscilla Presley, a career retrospective tour of Hollywood composer James Newton Howard and the first ever live tour of the multi Oscar® and Grammy award-winning pioneer of dance music, Giorgio Moroder.

About Ollie Rosenblatt and Senbla, producer for the UK

Founded in 2011, Senbla has grown to become a national market leader in promoting and producing live music and other successful arts events, working across more than 200 concerts and shows per year throughout the UK.  From artist touring and presentation, concert series, films in concert, holograms, musicals, theatre and family entertainment, Senbla provides a unique and bespoke approach to every show.  It strives to add value for its clients and often helps clients to conceptualise their shows and thus realise their vision. It works across a spectrum of genres with a wide range of international artists such as Diana Ross, Quincy Jones,  Ennio Morricone, Burt Bacharach,  George Benson, Marc Almond, Soft Cell, Joss Stone and many others as well as leading productions such as The Apollo Nights Summer Series and film with live orchestra shows- Star Wars In Concert Franchise, Harry Potter in Concert Franchise, Beauty and The Beast, Love Actually, Blade Runner,  musicals ‘Hair’, operas Madame Butterfly and La Boheme and family show Circus 1903.

About Silverback Films

Silverback Films specialises in the production of high quality wildlife films for both television and cinema. Formed in 2012 by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, Silverback Films brings together a world class team of wildlife film makers to create the highest quality natural history films. Its productions include cinema films for Disneynature, African Cats, Chimpanzee, Bears, Monkey Kingdom and Dolphin Reef and television series North America (Discovery) The Hunt (BBC) and Our Planet (Netflix).

About WWF

WWF is one of the world’s largest independent conservation organisations, with more than five million supporters and a global network active in more than one hundred countries. Through our engagement with the public, businesses and government, we focus on safeguarding the natural world, creating solutions to the most serious environmental issues facing our planet, so that people and nature thrive. Find out more about our work, past and present on the WWF website.

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