Some previous festivals, shows and presentations....... 
| Swan Lake On Ice
For the first time ever - Tchaikovsky's most loved ballet - Swan Lake has been produced as a beautiful and very moving ice production.
There have been many ice shows over the years, but Swan Lake is truly unique. This show reaches audiences of all ages and will appeal not only to ballet lovers but to a family audience who want to enjoy the splendour of the sets and costumes, the exquisite Swans, the passion and love of Odette/Odile and the Prince.
This is art and entertainment at its very best. The St.Petersburg State Ice Ballet have lovingly reproduced on ice, the choreography and story that thrill audiences all over the world.
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Beiteddine Festival - Lebanon
Beiteddine a small town in the Chouf Mountain region of Lebanon - about 45km from Beirut, welcomes the most talented and renowned international artists to its annual festival during the summer months of July and August each year.
The Beiteddine Palace, a masterpiece of early 19th century Lebanese architecture, has been the festival venue over the past 14 years. | 
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The Beiteddine Festivals every year present a splendid array of international talent including: Jose Carreras, Sir Elton John, Joe Cocker, South Africa's legendary Miriam Makeba, the Queens of Cuban music Albita and Celia Cruz (with Tito Puente), the Shaolin Monks "Wheel of Life", Andrew Lloyd-Webber's wonderful musical CATS, Notre Dame de Paris, Jessye Norman with her Sacred Ellington programme, Placido Domingo, The Kirov Opera conducted my Valery Gergiev, the Kornos Quartet, STOMP and many more. |
  
The Beiteddine Festival in Lebanon was held during July/August 2000 and featured among its other attractions the Shaolin Monks “Wheel of Life”, incorporating extraordinary feats of discipline, strength and daring.
Other Creative Entertainment Group presentations at the festival included the world-renowned Dame Kiri Te Kanawa with the Budapest Concert Orchestra, the great American opera star Jessye Norman in her Sacred Ellington programme, and rock legend Joe Cocker.    Beiteddine Festival
For the 1999 Beiteddine Festival, CEG provided the 300-strong entire Kirov Opera company under its mesmerising maestro Valery Gergiev, the superstar tenor Placido Domingo with the soprano Anna-Marie Martinez and the Budapest Concert Orchestra, and the international sensation STOMP.  
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Microsoft, Media Arts Corp and the world's biggest recording artist, Elton John - teamed up to create the first ever ticketed Global Webcast Concert.
Ephesus-Turkey 2001 
Peter Brightman on behalf of Media Arts Corp, agreed the exclusive partnership deal for the Internet with the biggest selling recording artist in the world - Elton John - and immediately brought in the world's most popular web destination - MSN.
The exclusive deal saw MSN webcast the historic concert from one of the most beautiful and spectacular structures of the ancient world - the 2,500 year old Great Theatre in Ephesus, Turkey on the 17th July 2001.
| Peter Brightman said at the time:-"Elton's concert from Ephesus will be an amazing meeting of the best of the ancient world, the greatest performing and recording artist of our time, and 21st century internet technology."
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In between the two fabulous sold-out concerts at the Beiteddine Festival, contracted by Peter Brightman for the Festival and attracting worldwide press coverage from CNN, The Times, BBC World Service, Herald Tribune, etc., and this historic first ever live pay-per-view global webcast from Ephesus on July 17th 2001 - Elton John had performed in Bergerac, France, Bremen, Würzburg and Berlin in Germany. The world simply cannot get enough of this incredible and tireless artist. Palace of the Empress Catherine The Great in St.Petersburg, Russia. Two days after Ephesus - the entire production was shipped to the magnificently restored palace of the Empress Catherine The Great in St.Petersburg, Russia, where a different programme was then filmed. |
Royal Opera House , Covent Garden
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 Creative Entertainment Group are also proud to announce that:1st December 2002 Sir Elton John and his group of musicians: Davey Johnstone (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Guy Babylon (keyboards), Robert Birch (bass guitar, vocals), Nigel Olsen (drums, vocals), John Mahon (percussion, vocals) and the Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music conducted by James Howard Newton (Five times Academy Award nominations, Two Grammy Award nominations and three Emmy Awards) performed at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden on December 1st, 2002 - the concert was to create the Elton John Scholarship for Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
The summer 2003 dates contracted for Elton include: June 24th The Kremlin Palace, Moscow - July 12th The Darmstadt Festival - July 19th Hull City Football Club Stadium and July 22nd Powderham Castle, Devon
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The Athens Festival 2000 The Odeon of Herodes Atticus  
  
Sir Elton John appeared on the 9th and 10th September 2000 at the 2,000 year old marble amphitheatre, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, immediately below the floodlit Parthenon. Loaded with awards, honours and millions of sales of his records, Elton is highly respected among his superstar colleagues, from Luciano Pavarotti to Leonard Cohen, from Cher to Tina Turner
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St. Petersburg - December 2000 Philharmonia Hall Maestro Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic |
 Maestro Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
Negotiated for broadcast clients, the filming of the St Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Yuri Temirkanov. Accompanied by the wonderful pianist from China, Lang Lang, the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 and Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 were performed at the Philharmonia Hall in St.Petersburg on December 28th 2000. |
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