ABBA's virtual show Voyage will be shown in other countries.
The world tour was confirmed by Lucian Grange, chairman of Universal Music Group.
"Plans are now being made to send ABBA Voyage on a world tour," Grange was quoted as saying by Variety.
Presumably, the show will take place in specially equipped arenas in large cities.
Thus, viewers from other countries will also be able to enjoy the creativity of idols performed by their digital young versions.
At the moment there is no schedule and information on upcoming concerts, but this is the first official confirmation that the show, which has been in the making for almost six years, will be shown somewhere else besides London.
George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic studio worked on the creation of virtual artists, which worked on the production of films such as The Eternals, Red Notice, No Time to Die, as well as films of the Star Wars franchise.
At first, the creators of the concert planned to organize a show using holograms, but in the end it was decided to make avatars.
Voyage is an innovative show.
In order to recreate the singers as they looked in 1979, experts used Motion-capture Light & Magic technology - four musicians in special costumes spent a considerable number of days in front of 160 motion capture cameras to make their digital versions on stage look as good as possible. realistic.
As ABBA member Benny Andersson told Variety, everything looks and sounds "amazingly beautiful."
The show premiered on May 27 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, after which it ran regularly - seven times a week.
The repertoire of the concert included new tracks: Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus wrote two songs - I Still Have Faith In You and Don't Shut Me Down, and the band also recorded an entire album.
The concert lasted 90 minutes and consisted of 21 tracks, including the band's most famous songs such as Super Trouper, Money, Money, Money, Dancing Queen and Take a Chance on Me.
About 380 thousand tickets were sold for the first show.
In total, for all the time it was watched by about 1 million viewers.
It was a unique event.
Concerts often use one lighting unit, but 20 were involved in this. According to Benny Andersson, the musician was more worried not about how it would look, but about how the audience would react to fake artists on stage.
As a result, the audience was delighted, and the show received positive reviews almost across the board.
Andersson stated that it was allegedly almost the only concert of the group that everyone liked for everything.
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In Variety's review, Mark Sutherland wrote that the show caused quite a stir.
According to him, at first glance, the movements of avatars seem jerky, but over time, the eyes get used to it, and the viewer begins to perceive digital singers as real.
Among other things, the reporter mentioned the "out of this world" visuals that surprised the audience.
The artists themselves, when they saw the concert, were also delighted with the result.
According to Benny Andersson, it's impossible not to believe it.
“I see that I am standing on the stage, talking to you.
Absolutely plausible.
Believe it," he said.
The Swedish band ABBA was formed in the late 1960s.
The name of the group was formed from the first letters of the names of the musicians included in it - Agnetha Fältskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
By the mid-1970s, the compositions of pop singers were already popular and occupied the first lines of international charts.
In 1974, ABBA entered the Eurovision Song Contest and won first place with the song Waterloo.
In 1981, the group broke up, but Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson continued to work.
So, together they worked on the production of the musicals Mamma Mia!
and Chess.
A few years later, in 2018, the second part of Mamma Mia! was released, in which fans also heard the work of idols, in particular, the song Waterloo.