The festival season has just opened, but the concert you absolutely must attend this year will be to follow from your sofa for most French people.

This Saturday is the event

Platinum Party At The Palace

in London, an evening bringing together a slew of prestigious artists on the occasion of the jubilee of Queen Elisabeth II where 22,000 people are expected.

Organized on three stages in front of Buckingham Palace, the evening will be opened by the group Queen + Adam Lambert.

American diva Diana Ross, 78, 'absolutely delighted to have been asked to perform on such an important occasion', will end it two and a half hours later, her first live performance in the UK for fifteen years .

Direction Paris Première for a London evening

To follow all this from France, you will have to connect to Paris Première which will offer the concert live, exclusively and unencrypted from 9 p.m.

François Pier Pélinard-Lambert, editor-in-chief of Le

Film Français

, and Jérôme Carron, journalist at

Point de vue

, will be commenting.

Once the evening is over, the replay will be available for free on 6play.

Among the artists and celebrities announced, Alicia Keys, Rod Stewart, Duran Duran, Andrea Bocelli, the composer Hans Zimmer (who notably composed the soundtrack of the 25th James Bond), the British singers Ella Eyre, Mabel and Mimi Webb, the naturalist David Attenborough, tennis champion Emma Raducanu, ex-footballer David Beckham, actress Julie Andrews...

Elton John also recorded a special tribute for this evening, broadcast live by the BBC, celebrating the contribution of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries to music, the environment, sport and musical comedy, during the 70 years of reign of an immensely popular, but increasingly absent, queen.

Moreover, Prince Charles and his son William will come to pay tribute to the 96-year-old monarch in declining health, who should watch the concert on television.

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