Four decades after ABBA last performed live, audiences can once again see them onstage, in the innovative digital concert “ABBA Voyage.” The show opens to the public on Friday, the day after a red-carpet London premiere attended by superfans, celebrities and the king and queen of Sweden.
It's a fusion of tribute act and 3D concert movie that transcends that description. At times it was possible to forget this wasn't a live performance, though when the backing singers stepped forward to belt out “Does Your Mother Know,” a surge of live-music energy shot through the arena.
Watching one’s younger self perform must be a strange sensation, but the band members, now in their 70s, said they were delighted by the show.Lyngstad agreed: “I thought I was quite good, but I’m even better.”“There’s an emotional connection between the avatars and the audience,” he said. “That’s the fantastic thing.”
The Times of London reviewer Will Hodgkinson judged the show “essentially an ABBA singalong with added sound and light show,” though he called the effect “captivating.” Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis called the concert “jaw-dropping” and said “it’s so successful that it’s hard not to imagine other artists following suit.”
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