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Michael Bublé is a Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter originally from Burnaby in Canada who has sold over thirty million records worldwide.

Bublé's talents for jazz were first recognised at Christmas time when he was aged just thirteen yet managed to powerfully sing out a line from the popular 'White Christmas' on a family car ride. Bublé was encouraged to pursue singing by his Italian grandfather who booked him his first gig playing a club at the age of sixteen and then continued to pay for the singer's vocal lessons where he was coached by opera baritone Joseph Shore. His grandfather passionately supported his career, believing Michael was destined to be "an opening act for somebody in Las Vegas", he was inspired by his grandfather's jazz collection and continued to developed his classic Sinattra style.

Bublé's rise to fame was not considered easy, after winning a Canada Youth Talent Search competition, he asked Bev Delich to become his manager who then continued to book him every available gig including talent shows, conventions and cruise ships. His break came through the release of his self titled debut album in 2003 which debuted in the top ten of the Canadian charts, and topped the Australian top 40. His second album 'It's Time' faired better, topping charts in Canada, hitting top five in the UK and denting the top ten in the US where the album has gone on to sell nearly four millions.

His following two releases topped the charts in the UK, US, Canada and Australia and turned Bublé into a household name. His big band stylings and classic performance style won him a huge following who craved for the big brass of the 60's and 70's, his tours are known for his energetic stage personas and impressive vocal performance. He became an even more consistent household addition with the release of his 2011 album 'Christmas' which featured his distinct jazz vocal covering some holiday classics, it was another huge commercial success and was one of the year's biggest selling albums in the UK and Australia.

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Write a review for Michael Bublé: more like write a book, the story of my dreams coming true :)

It all started back in about 2005, I started my first year of high school and as we all know sisters seem to have the natural inclination of claiming things from each other (without the other sister knowing of course). Now, I didn't feel the need to claim my older sister's clothes and make-up but I did however find a certain something that I was just never going to give back! At that stage my sister was working and I didn't really get an allowance so I thought I could borrow a few CD's to listen to on my walkman :) Michael Bublé's first self titled album happened to be one of the CD's I borrowed.

Needles to say I fell in love with the music and his voice and I did not return that CD! A few years later, they had a poster put up in the North of Johannesburg, near the Coca Cola Dome, announcing a Michael Bublé concert. I was obviously over the moon and immediately asked my father to please buy me a ticket, I must see his concert. My father did not see the need to buy me a ticket though, because Michael was not an artist that he had heard of, so he thought it would not be worth the money to buy for me.

In 2011, a new tour was announced and I was over the moon, I was working and could afford to buy my own ticket this time! However, the universe had a different plan for me. Tickets were sold out, radio stations (one specific radio station) was having competitions to win tickets, which I tried for every day I had to sit in my mother's car to listen to the radio because their was no signal in the flats we were living in. I tried twitter competitions as well and I just did not have any luck. My one friend had two tickets to the show, but she refused to sell me one ticket because she was taking her boyfriend with, which hurt even more because I knew he would not appreciate it as much as I would. I then when to the extent of looking at the on-line stores where people sell that things they do not want. People sold tickets for right at the back of the venue for R3000 a ticket, which was just ridiculous, who can afford that?

It was announced again last year (2014) that Michael will be touring here again. I WENT BALLISTIC! This time I was able to bag some really great seats... the odds were in my favour this time! :)

I had a count down set up to the big day, got all dressed up, bought some nice merchandise and then got a bit worried... You know often we build such great expectations, that real life can not reach that high we have set up in our minds... The opening act started.. Naturally 7, From the word go I had goosebumps all over! I was hitting my boyfriend's leg like an excited kid! They performed a few songs that I did not know and I was honestly having a blast listening to them, then they started performing their version of Coldplay - Fix you. I was sold! I sent my boyfriend to buy their CD while they were still performing (just in case it was sold out before we got a copy, haha) When they were done, the team started setting up the stage for the band, I waited as patiently as I could...

There was an introduction song that started up like a song from an old Hollywood film.

I clapped my hands together - again - like a kid. I could be mistaken because I was so excited, but the intro for cry me a river started playing and as it ended, FIRE WORKS, the curtain opened and standing on the ramp, my ultimate inspiration. He started singing Fever and slid down the ramp and the rest of the show was MAGIC!!!

I sang to each of the songs, danced and clapped my hands, I laughed and smiled so much that my face hurt! It was truly an amazing experience! He moved through the crowds, charmed them even. What a humble, funny guy!

Before the show started I told my boyfriend, " I know you think Michael isn't bad, but I BET YOU that after tonight you will think 1000 times more of him and his performance skills" after the show, I said to him I TOLD YOU SO :) he enjoyed it just as much as I did.

Going to his show was a dream come true for me, It was long awaited (since 2005), I thought my high expectations might ruin the show for me, but He met those high expectations and even topped them! I know it sounds far fetched to say, but HONESTLY this was the best night of my life! I would even go as far as saying, if I had the kind of money, I would follow his tours around the world!

I hope my review put in to perspective how awesome his show was and for those that think "Michael's music is boring or his show is boring" you will miss out if you do not go and see for yourself!

AMAZING talent

AMAZING person

I hope he comes back soon :)

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When i first watched Michael Bublé's live concert at Madison Square Garden through his DVD back in 2013, i knew that one day, in the distant future, i would sit in his live concert, enjoying his soulful voice, his vibrant music genres from jazz to pop, his charming witty humoring jokes.

And that one day came at 2015 February 6th. It was a magical night, an amazing experience he took us, the audience, all along.

From the cool-to-max-pyrotech "Fever" to upbeat staple "Haven't Met You Yet", Michael rocked the stage right off the first ten minutes. People danced to his songs, people joined in the fun by clapping their hands all along. And you would have a hard time believing how Michael Bublé was able to bring the whole Nippon Budokan to shake with him.

As he said, he was not doing a concert, but he was having a party, with us; his fans. It was a ride from the slow sad but honest "Try A Little Tenderness", following with multiple mash up from his hits of previous albums, you can be of sure that "To Be Loved" World Tour was full of Bublé's elements from the start of his career to the latest success of him.

Often we heard people or critics complaining that artists/singers fake their concert by using autotune, to prevent failure or so. But in Michael's show, be ready to hear his truest voice to the deepest end. In fact, he was being complete honest when he said he screwed up "Feeling Good". But Michael, don't worry. Your honesty won over every flaws there were. The effort and energy vibrated from you were just so strong that those flaws are what made you perfect.

Michael performed his self-labelled-its-sucks "Home", which crooned over everyone in the hall. I mean, who could have resisted to not think of their loves when he sang "i'd my run, baby i'm done, i want to go home".

Along with that, we also had Naturally 7 joined in the fun, with Motown classic "Who's Loving You", "To Love Somebody" and "Get Lucky". Forgot to mention, Naturally 7 warmed the hall up before Michael, and boy did they warm the hall, they pretty much rocked the hall and prepared us to meet the "feverish" man right after.

Not to mention also, the "Team Bublé" that performed all the musics flawlessly. It was one thing to watch their performance through videos, and another to truly enjoy their performance live. That bass, that saxophone, that trumpet, that trombone and others; the musical notes just sounded so much magical in live. Oh the ever superb percussion!

All in all, it was definitely a night well spent. You won't regret the money you bought to enjoy this man's talent. I will go for his concerts in future again, again and again, just like his sincere honesty in "Song For You", that very last part where he sang with no mic, and got my goosebumps up,

"And when my life is over, I'll remember when we were together,

'Cause we're alone, and I was singing my song for you."

We all love you, Michael Bublé.

Naturally 7, which was the opening act for the Michael Bublé concert here in Ottawa last nite, was PHENOMENAL!!!!!! By far the best opening act I have ever seen. They had us up out of our seats dancing to their acoustic sound. No instruments, all sounds performed by themselves using their mouth. Certainly had us warmed up for the man himself, the wonderful, soulful, funny Michael Bublé. Michael puts on a show like no other. He is simply the best, in my opinion of course. His charm and wit resonated throughout his performance last nite. I had never been to a concert of his before, but, I can honestly say that last nite will not be my last. Aside from him being a world renowed artist who hails from CANADA, he is really down to earth. All his fame and fortune has not gone to his head, like it has for many other artists in the business. He is very proud to talk about his wife and son and being a first time Dad. Sure he makes some sexual jokes, which did not offend me. I very much enjoyed his humour, as did many others in attendance last nite. He also spoke very fondly of his dear Grandpa, who was actually in the audience who received a huge round of applause.

He sung all my favourites: Fever, Home, Close Your Eyes, Crazy Love, Save the Last Dance for Me, amongst many others. His voice is always smooth and certainly puts you in the mood. I was actually surprised as to how many men were at the concert. Whether they were dragged by their wife/girlfriend didn't matter, it was nice to see in a sea of women. I had a really great seat as front row beside middle stage where the sound crew sat. One of the highlites for me was when his gorgeous wife arrived with their son with his headphones on to this area. Michael was singing with Naturally 7 on this stage and stopped to admire both of them and had is very adorable son's face put on the big screen. He really is one smitten husband and Dad.

Michael did not want to finish the concert last nite, nor did I want him to. I was enjoying myself so much and when I looked around me, so was everyone else.

When I attend a concert, I want to be entertained and last nite I was thoroughly entertained. Thank you Michael for giving me the best Wednesday nite in a very long time and I look forward to the next time we meet again.

A fan from day one.

Seeing Michael Buble live was something I’d dreamed of for years, and when I finally was able to experience an O2 Arena performance, I was not disappointed at all. The show, beginning to end was spectacular. The vocals, performance, and atmosphere was stunning.

The supports were pretty good at warming up the crowd ready for Michaels performance, and by the time he was ready to come on stage, the arena was buzzing. It’s awesome how he really interacts with the crowd, and even in such a massive venue he was addressing all areas of the stadium and even hopped down to grab the hands of some of the standing audience in the front which was so cool.

All his classic songs were so amazing and everyone was on their feet and singing along. It’s incredible how he can maintain such a strong vocal performance throughout 2 hours of nonstop singing with so much energy. Even if you’re not a fan, I think that it’s a concert for everyone and seeing him live will convert you.

Michael Buble was full of energy Saturday at Air Canada Centre and the result was a concert that won't soon be forgotten. It started with an amazing opening act from Naturally 7, a band that uses its voices as the instruments and continued with a wide array of Buble favorites, including "All you need is love" performed by the singer as white and red hearts floated down from the roof. He had the crowd dancing in their seats at times and those who wouldn't dance, he had highlighted on the big screens on either side of the stage until they started dancing. With the opening act, the show lasted nearly three hours and I don't see how anyone could have gone home disappointed. It was a great night. if I had but one regret, it was that Buble did not perform my favorite song of his, Summer Wind, but there were sure lots of other great songs to make up for that. It was a most memorable night.

I'm not a fan of Michael Bublé. I don't dislike him, I think he's very talented and good at what he does. But I'm just not into him/his music all that much, just indiferrent.

However I went to the concert with my family relatives and significant other — who happen to LOVE him and his music.

It was great to see him on stage, along with fantastic opening act Emeli Sandé. Bublé was coming back on stage after a few years and whereas I would have expected a more polished "american show", he went in more relaxed, taking the time to talk with the audience and make jokes. It was a lot of fun, and he's a lot funnier than I anticipated. I definitely laughed at his comedic bits, not something I anticipated.

In terms of the show and the performance itself, you can tell the guy is a pro, and his band was just as great!

Overall a suprisingly great time!

This Concert was AMAZING! I loved every minute, it was full of love and laughter AND all of my favourite songs. Thank You Michael! On your previous trip to ANZ Stadium it was so washed out with the rain you even said we all looked like a row of condoms sitting in our plastic rain covers and all I could see of you was a pin prick size picture on a large TV screen...it was so disappointing after flying in from Queensland. BUT this time our seats were near the front and it was great to see and hear you in the flesh! It made up for all the disappointment of the previous trip...and you are the only artist I have ever been to a concert for, I will try to go every time you return to Australia, so PLEASE come back soon. I recommend this artist and concert to all ages it was fantastic...We need a new album of all your own songs please.

Michael Buble’s concert in Sydney was definately one of the best shows I’ve ever seen! First, the band, the arrangemets which all were changed even more bigger than I new them before, backing vocalists and their movements :), setlist itself. A very good and precise lightning and director work.

But of course, it all would have been nothing, if there wasn’t such an indescribably perfect frontman!!!

The combination of perfect humor, musicallity, good taste of music and singing. The very special charming movements, his looks etc..

the very memorable moment for me was the lady from the fan zone who started to sing.. But not because of the nice singing, but the mistery about the band joining. I think I figured it out how you guys did it and again say wow!! :)

Thank you for the amazing evening!

The concert was fantastic!

Obviously the voice was out of this world, even when you are all the way back in the cheap seats :) *The orchestra was amazing too! Not only is he an amazing singer he is a great entertainer as well. Michael Bublé interacts with the audience (he even gets people up on stage with him to sing) and makes the audience feel at home. He stops after a few songs to talk to the audience about how happy he is to see this audience in front of him. He even makes the audience laugh with occasional jokes! The visuals, so the screens and the set up, were beautiful.

It was an amazing experience and I would love to go to one of his concerts again.

When seeing Michael expect more of a show than a concert. Needless to say, it was amazing. He really draws you in with his sense of humor and shows how down to earth he can be. He takes breaks in between songs to talk and crack jokes which kept everyone's interest throughout. Not that he needed to stop between songs but it was quite refreshing to experience a concert in that sort of way. The venue we watched the show in was quite large but somehow he makes the concert feel very intimate. His encore was breathtaking and very unexpected. Over all no matter how old or young you are (although I wouldn't recommend bringing your kids to this!) this is something you would enjoy!

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Michael Buble's Set List Revealed for 2022 Higher Tour

Michael Buble is currently touring the world for his Higher Tour and you can check out the set list right here!

The tour is celebrating Michael ‘s most recent album, Higher , which was released back in March.

Michael is paying tribute to Elvis Presley during the tour by singing several of the legendary singer’s songs, including “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and “All Shook Up.”

The North American leg of the tour is running through October 22 and then Michael will bring the tour to Latin America in November and Australia in December.

Click inside to check out the set list for the tour…

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1. Feeling Good 2. Haven’t Met You Yet 3. L-O-V-E 4. Such a Night 5. Sway 6. When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 7. Home 8. Everything 9. Higher 10. To Love Somebody 11. Hold On 12. Smile 13. I’ll Never Not Love You 14. Fever 15. One Night With You 16. All Shook Up 17. Can’t Help Falling in Love 18. You’re the First, the Last, My Everything 19. It’s a Beautiful Day 20. Bring It On Home to Me

ENCORE 21. Save the Last Dance for Me 22. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 23. Cry Me a River 24. Always On My Mind

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Michael Buble reaching for ‘Higher’ ground on new tour, album

The grammy-winning singer wants fans to ‘be part of something special for one night,’ he says of the biggest tour he’s ever mounted..

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Michael Buble is on the road again.

More on the Willie Nelson homage later.

Suffice it to say, his new tour, which arrives at the Allstate Arena on Friday night, has been more than two years in the making thanks to the pandemic that sidelined his road trek plans like those of so many other artists. With his latest album, “Higher,” in tow, Buble is pulling out all the stops.

“I was terrified I’d never get back to work, that people would never be able to get back into a [concert venue] safely again,” Buble says during a recent chat. “So I wanted this show to be a celebration of joy and love. And I didn’t want to rest on my laurels. People have never seen me in this way in concert before. … I want them to be part of something special for one night. It’s the biggest tour I’ve ever mounted, production-wise.

“It’s fun to show off,” the 46-year-old Canadian singer continues, “and I’m not trying to sound like a jerk. … I’m giving people the chance to see something that went extinct a long time ago. If you never had the chance to see Frank or Dean or Elvis we’ve put [that show experience] into a pop setting. So you get the music but you [also get] the raconteur surrounded by a live, big band with string players and a full choir. I love what I do!”

Buble changed up the recording process in a huge way for “Higher,” surrounding himself with a new producing lineup, for starters, that included Greg Wells and Bob Rock, along with Alan Chang, Jason “Spicy G” Goldman and  Sir Paul McCartney. He describes working with the former Beatle as “really comfortable. He was so down to earth and extremely generous and just happy to be there.”

The album, Buble’s 11th studio outing, reveals many new layers to his music chops.

“The album had a lot to do with the COVID [lockdown]. I was in a place with a lot of time to think about things and really dream big, go for things musically I’d never been brave enough to do before,” the four-time Grammy Award winner says. “I was terribly ambitious.”

The lineup includes Buble’s spin on Sam Cooke’s soul-gospel gem “Bring It On Home to Me,” Vera Lynn’s WWII-era treasure “We’ll Meet Again,” Barry White’s disco classic “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything,” Charlie Chaplin’s tearjerker “Smile,” and Bob Dylan’s torchy romantic ode “Make You Feel My Love.” The covers are a fine complement to several originals including the first single from the project, “I’ll Never Not Love You,” featuring his wife Luisana Lopilato in the video, which has garnered more than 5 million views to date. (The couple welcomed their fourth child, daughter Cielo Yoli Rose, on Aug. 19.)

A former collaborator suggested Buble take a different tack on the album, to step away from his distinct style “for a little more fresh sound.”

“He told me ‘you might get a lot out of that sense of newness,’ and he was right. So that’s what I did,” Buble says. “I left that comfort zone of working with [uber producer-composer] David Foster and the same writers that I had worked with for so many years. It was about staying on brand and not losing my core audience but showing a ton of growth musically to that audience.”

No stranger to duets (he has partnered with Mariah Carey, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Thalia, and Laura Pausini, among others), Buble this time turned to country music legend Willie Nelson for a shared turn on “Crazy,” calling the track “the greatest duet I’ve ever done.”

“He’s one of my heroes,” Buble gushes. “When I think of the greatest interpreters of the American Songbook, I have Willie there. His music has had such a big impact on my life. His albums were among the records gifted to me by my grandpa. [Willie] sounds so good. Damn, he sounds like a kid on that cut. I would say it’s the greatest duet I’ve ever done.”

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Michael Bublé at the O2: Tickets, show times, setlist and more as the singer comes to London

The world’s favourite crooner is coming to town.

Michael Bublé will arrive in south east London this weekend for three massive shows at the O2 , showing why he is one of the most popular arena acts on the planet today.

He’ll be lending his dulcet tones to his own chart-topping singles, as well as some singalong covers of the old favourites in a show that will spread across more than two hours of music.

This is everything you need to know about Michael Bublé at the O2.

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What dates is Michael Bublé playing the O2 in London?

The singer will play shows on three consecutive nights in the arena, on Thursday May 30, Friday May 31 and Saturday June 1.

How to get tickets for Michael Bublé at the O2 in London

If you haven’t yet bagged yourself a spot at any of the shows, it’s not too late. Seating tickets remain for all three shows, while there are still a number of floor standing spaces left on Thursday May 30.

Tickets can be bought here .

What are the Michale Bublé show times at the O2?

Doors will open at 6.30pm on each evening, with the show set to kick off at 8pm. Things will wrap up at around 10.30pm.

Does Michael Bublé have a support act at the O2?

Bublé will be going it alone on his UK tour, launching straight into the main show without an opening act playing before him.

What songs will Michael Bublé play at the O2?

The singer has been settling into a regular setlist on his tour so far, and we can expect much of the same when he rolls into the capital. It’ll be a mix of his original tunes as well as his hugely popular covers of the crowd-pleasing classics.

Check out the list below for an idea of what’s to come.

• Feeling Good
• Haven't Met You Yet
• My Funny Valentine
• I Only Have Eyes for You
• Such a Night
• (Up A) Lazy River
• When You're Smiling
• You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
• When I Fall in Love
• Love You Anymore
• Forever Now
• Buona Sera Signorina
• Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody
• You Never Can Tell
• Nobody but Me
• Cry Me a River
• Where or When
• You Were Always on My Mind

How were the reviews for Michael Bublé’s most recent shows?

Bublé has already stopped off in Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester on his UK tour and, so far, the reviews are indicating anyone heading to the O2 are in for quite a show.

The Manchester Evening News called it an “emotional rollercoaster” and “achingly beautiful”, with the Guardian praising his vocals as “honeyed” and “note-perfect”. Metro, meanwhile, described his Birmingham concert as “joyous, loose and moving”.

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Michael Announces New U.S. Tour Dates!

July 10 Uncasville, CT- Mohegan Sun Arena July 11 Manchester, NH- Verizon Wireless Arena July 12 Atlantic City, NJ- Boardwalk Hall July 25 Grand Rapids, MI- Van Andel Arena July 26 Columbus, OH- Schottenstein Center July 27 Milwaukee, WI- BMO Harris Bradley Center

General public on sales for the shows listed above will begin on May 2 at 10am local venue time. Bungalow- B member ticket presales for the shows listed above will begin on April 29 at 10am and end on May 1st at 5pm local venue time.

July 29 Cincinnati, OH- U.S. Bank Arena July 30 Memphis, TN- FedEx Forum August 1 Tulsa, OK- BOK Center August 2 Oklahoma City, OK- Chesapeake Energy Arena August 3 Austin, TX- Frank Erwin Center

General public on sales will begin on May 9 at 10am local venue time. Ticket presales for the following shows will begin on May 6 and end on  May 8 at 5pm local venue time. Not a member of Bungalow- B? Join now

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Sarah’s orchestral work includes: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Soloists’ Chamber Orchestra, Belmont Ensemble, English Festival Orchestra, English Soloists’ Ensemble, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, English Sinfonia.

Sarah has been leader and co leader for the Thursford Christmas Spectacular series, including being soloist on both acoustic and electric violin and coaching training sessions for the show. She also performed in the West End show “Our House” (Madness).

Sarah has toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe performing chamber music recitals and playing live gigs with various artists including Madonna, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Robbie Williams and Take That on television and radio shows including MTV Awards, TOTP, X Factor, BBC Abbey Road live sessions, as well as for film and TV soundtracks including “The League of Gentlemen.”

Artists Joanne has performed with are as follows: Kanye West, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Michael Buble, Muse, Chris Martin, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J, Robin Thicke, Enya, Ronan Keating, George Michael, Rhianna, Westlife, Jamie Cullum, Richard Marx, Leona Lewis, Harry Connik – Junior, John Barrowman, Andreas Bocelli, Katie Melua, Rod Stewart, Alison Moyet, Il Divo, Alfie Boe, Aled Jones, Russel Watson, Josh Groban, Noel Gallagher, The Spice Girls, various artists with Bowfiddle the featured quartet at the London Pizza Express String Quartet Festival.

Joanne has toured the world with the Irish dance show “Spirit of the Dance, playing the lead on stage role. She has also worked in the West End show “Sinatra” and currently plays for the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glen Miller Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London’s Belmont Orchestra, Orchestra de Camera and the Apollo Chamber Orchestra.

Joanne has recorded the music for many films including Lord of the Rings and Die Another Day, James Bond. She also wrote and performed the string parts for Souls Stage at London’s Vintage Festival.

You can see and hear more of Joanne at www.joanneviolin.co.uk

Fiona is a regular face in London’s West End. She has performed in shows such as Les Miserables, Lion King, Ghost, Stephen Ward and The Assassins. She has also toured extensively in Europe and the Uk with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Doctor Who, Tim Minchin and Sam Smith. Other Artists that Fiona has worked with include: Olly Murs, Demi Levato, Jess Glynne, Jools Holland and two Albert Hall performances with Ne Yo and the Stereophonic’s.

Recently Fiona has enjoyed a Radio 1 Live Lounge with Little Mix. She was also part of a string section in a very exciting and unique project which reproduced the first ever studio album by The Beatles at Abbey Road Two, fifty years to the day since it had been recorded. It features many fantastic artists such as Joss Stone, Mick Hucknall, Gabrielle Aplin and Beverly Knight to name but a few. The programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 4.

‘An Intimate Evening with David Foster & Katharine McPhee’ to unfold at the St. George Theatre on May 17

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The husband-and-wife team of David Foster and Katharine McPhee will perform at the St. George Theatre on Friday evening, May 17. Courtesy Laure Ise St. George

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Grammy award-winning producer David Foster and singer/actor Katharine McPhee will perform at the historic St. George Theatre on Friday, May 17, at 8 p.m. during what’s being dubbed “An Intimate Evening with David Foster and Katharine McPhee.”

The 16-time Grammy-Award-winning writer/producer performs songs that he wrote or produced from his four decades of hits, and the performance includes fascinating storytelling about the songs, artists and moments of his life.

Of the tunes Foster and McPhee will perform are standouts like Celine Dion’s “The Power Of Love,” Whitney Houston’s “The Bodyguard,” Earth Wind and Fire’s “After The Love Is Gone,” Chicago’s “You’re The Inspiration,” Josh Groban’s “You Raised Me Up,” Natalie Cole’s “Unforgettable” and a number of others. They also perform a selection of hit songs that are loved by fans of McPhee.

The much-adored back-and-forth banter and on stage between the duo is highly anticipated by fans as they tell stories of how they met, what their songs mean to them, and the stories behind the songs.

Commenting on the tour, Foster and McPhee say, “We are so excited that our shows have been so well received that we will keep going. No rest for us. See you all next year.”

Tickets may be purchased here: https://stgeorgetheatre.com/david-foster-katharine-mcphee/ or at the St. George Theatre Box office from Tuesday to Friday between noon to 5 p.m. of phone 718 442-2900.

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DAVID FOSTER

Foster is considered one most illustrious composers in the industry.

With 16 Grammy Awards, including three for “Producer of the Year,” an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe, and Three Oscar nominations for “Best Original Songs,” Foster has earned a reputation as a keen spotter of new talent, playing a key role in the discovery and career launches of Celine Dion, Josh Groban, and Michael Bublé.

Few other individuals can claim to have their fingerprints on more major moments in all of popular music than Foster.

He has created hit songs for a diverse array of artists including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, Chicago, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire, Tony Braxton, Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton, Seal, Chaka Khan, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Hall and Oates, Brandy, ‘N Sync, Boz Scaggs, and Gloria Estefan.

In 2008 and 2011, he stepped out as a performer in his own right with “Hitman, David Foster and Friends,” PBS specials which became PBS’ highest-rated shows in decades.

In 2018 and 2019, Foster started touring with his show “An Intimate Evening with David Foster.” The shows garnered rave reviews and were so successful that he now devotes much of his time to selling out concerts around the world.

He’s also gearing up to take on Broadway with several projects including writing the music for a new musical about the iconic animated character “Betty Boop.” He also is penning the music for a musical based on the Amy Bloom novel and New York Times bestseller “Lucky Us.”

KATHARINE MCPHEE

McPhee is one of a few artists who take the lead in a career that includes film, television, Broadway, recording and touring.

She recently starred in both the U.S. and U.K. productions of the hit Broadway show “Waitress,” as well as in the Netflix Original Series “Country Comfort.”

Previously, she starred as ‘Paige Dineen’ on the CBS’ spy drama “Scorpion” and was featured in NBC’s award-winning musical series “Smash,” executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Her other television credits include “CSI: NY,” “Community,” and “Family Guy.”

McPhee has appeared on the big screen in Columbia’s romantic comedy “The House Bunny.”

In addition to her acting career, she finds great success in the music space after her turn on Season 5 of “American Idol.”

Her first single debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard’s Hot Singles Sales chart. Her debut album landed on the Billboard 200 chart and went gold in 2008.

A veteran of the concert stage, McPhee continues to perform to sold out audiences around the world.

During Christmas 2022, McPhee released Part 1 of her Christmas album called “Christmas Songs.”

A collection of Christmas classics produced by David Foster, Part 2 was released during Christmas 2023.

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On this tour, you can expect to see incredible views and the magical transformation sunset has on Moscow’s most iconic buildings, the highlights of which being:

• The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is a more solemn yet festive sight with its dimly lit lanterns.
• Basil's Cathedral’s fun and colourful onion domes give off the aura of a mysterious castle, growing out of the darkness of the imposing State Duma building nearby.
• The spectacularly illuminated Bolshoi Theatre and the Alexander Garden walkway, itself painted in a whimsical pattern of shadows.
• The legendary Lubyanka Square, steeped in secrecy; just its hearing its name after dark is enough to trigger goosebumps, given its murky past.
• The House on the Embankment, where old legends are revived and ghostly silhouettes lurk.
• The Russian State Library, where vague shadows have been seen flickering in its windows. Who knows, could this be the legendary bibliologist Rubakin protecting the works of literary art that lie within its walls?
• Incredible views from the height of the observation deck at Sparrow Hills. The candle-like skyscrapers of "Moscow-City" shoot into the night in a blaze of glorious light, all reflected back to the observer by the dark waters of the Moscow River. Lest not forget the blood-red fountains on Poklonnaya Hill! An absolutely fantastic spectacle which cannot be seen by day.

Our expert guides will share one thousand and one interesting stories about the aforementioned and other sights, whilst at the same time detailing the vast history of our beautiful capital, past and present.

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BMI Honors David Foster at 2024 BMI/NAB Dinner

The annual dinner recognizes the mutually supportive relationship between the songwriting community and the broadcast industry.

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BMI celebrated songwriter, composer and producer David Foster at the 74th annual BMI/ NAB Dinner held Tuesday (April 16) at Encore Las Vegas. The private event was sponsored by Xperi.

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BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill presented Foster with the award, praising Foster’s “extraordinary creativity and the singular impact he’s made as a songwriter, a producer, an artist, a mentor and a philanthropist.” Foster joined BMI in 1978.

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Following a video of career highlights, Foster performed. He was joined on stage by his wife, singer-actress Katharine McPhee , and classically trained vocalist Daniel Emmet .

Foster has received many accolades over the years, including 16 Grammy Awards , a Primetime Emmy and three Oscar nods for best original song.

His Grammys include three wins for producer of the year (non-classical), three for album of the year and two for record of the year. He has won 11 of his 16 Grammys for producing, four for arranging and one for songwriting (his first Grammy, for co-writing Earth, Wind & Fire ’s 1979 smash “After the Love Has Gone,” which was voted best R&B song). His other Grammys are for work with Jennifer Holliday (on the Dreamgirls cast album), Chicago, Barbra Streisand, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Michael Bublé.

His Emmy was for co-writing a song for The Concert for World Children’s Day , an ABC special in 2003. He has been nominated three times for outstanding music direction for those endlessly replayed Great Performances specials on PBS.

Foster was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010. He was honored as a BMI Icon the following year. He has won 42 BMI Awards and was named BMI pop songwriter of the year three times.

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• You Were Always on My Mind by Gwen McCrae
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Russia-Ukraine War Drone Strikes Damage Buildings in Moscow as Kyiv Is Hit Again

The drone attack in Moscow was a potent sign that the war is increasingly reaching the heart of Russia. It came as an aerial assault on Ukraine’s capital left at least one person dead.

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Here is the latest on strikes in Moscow and Kyiv.

At least eight drones targeted Moscow early Tuesday, according to the Russian authorities, the first attack to hit civilian areas in the Russian capital and a potent sign that the war is increasingly reaching the heart of Russia.

The assault came after yet another overnight bombardment by Russian forces of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, which has faced a barrage of attacks in recent weeks that have put the city on edge and tested the country’s air defenses. Kyiv was attacked with at least 20 drones early Tuesday, leaving one person dead and unnerving exhausted residents .

The dueling strikes reflected the dialed-up tension and shifting priorities ahead of Ukraine’s expected counteroffensive . Ukraine has increasingly been reaching far into Russia-held territory, while Moscow has been adjusting its tactics in an effort to inflict significant damage on Kyiv.

Tuesday’s aerial assault on Moscow — in which at least three residential buildings sustained minor damage — comes weeks after a pair of explosions over the Kremlin, a bold strike aimed at President Vladimir V. Putin’s seat of power. U.S. officials said the attack was most likely orchestrated by one of Ukraine’s special military or intelligence units.

The Russian Defense Ministry blamed Ukraine for Tuesday’s assault, describing the strike as a “terrorist attack” and saying that the drones had been intercepted. Mr. Putin briefly commented on the attack, telling a reporter that Russia’s air defenses had proved adequate. “We have stuff to do,” he said in a video clip published by state news media. “We know what needs to be done.”

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, said Kyiv was not “directly involved” but was “happy” to watch. A spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, which typically maintains a policy of strategic ambiguity over attacks in Russia, declined to comment .

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U.S. officials said they were still gathering information , noting that “as a general matter” the United States does not support strikes in Russia but that Tuesday marked the 17th time this month that Moscow has attacked Kyiv.

Five of the drones that targeted Moscow on Tuesday were shot down and three others had their systems jammed, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. The assault has raised further questions about Russia’s air defenses after explosions were reported over the Kremlin this month , with nationalist commentators calling it a “psychological blow” to Russians .

Attacks on Russia reportedly continued along the border with Ukraine. An anti-Kremlin paramilitary group that this month staged an incursion from Ukrainian territory into southern Russia said that it had made “another successful crossing,” while the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said a civilian had been killed by shelling he blamed on the Ukrainian Army. Those claims had not been independently verified.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, in Sweden for the start of a four-day visit to Nordic countries focusing on NATO’s support for Ukraine, expressed confidence that Sweden would join the NATO alliance “in the weeks ahead.” Another member, Turkey, has objected to Sweden’s admission for more than a year.

Haley Willis , Marc Santora and Andrew E. Kramer contributed reporting.

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The I.A.E.A.’s new measures for the Zaporizhzhia plant are meant to avert nuclear catastrophe.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Tuesday that he had established five basic rules to avoid nuclear catastrophe at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and that he would publicly report any violations.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the I.A.E.A., briefed the U.N. Security Council on the rules, which are largely based on safety principles the agency established a year ago. The requirements are fairly straightforward — the first stipulates that “there should be no attack of any kind from or against the plant.”

Russian forces have controlled the plant — Europe’s largest — for more than a year. The plant is no longer producing electricity for outside use, but Ukrainian workers continue to perform essential functions, including operating critical cooling equipment.

Frontline fighting has repeatedly damaged the facility, disrupted its power supply and contributed to a staffing crisis that is “not sustainable,” Mr. Grossi said on Tuesday.

Mr. Grossi’s promise to report violations comes after months of unsuccessfully trying to establish a security zone around the plant, where the agency has stationed its own monitors. Even as Russia and Ukraine accused each other of causing damage and outages, Mr. Grossi largely avoided placing blame on either country while he sought to negotiate an agreement.

Mr. Grossi told the Council that the new rules had been established in consultation with Ukrainian and Russian officials at the “highest levels,” but it remained unclear whether the two nations would abide by them.

The new rules say that the plant should not be used as a base for heavy weaponry or military personnel that could be used in an attack; that the plant’s off-site power supplies should not be put at risk; that all structures and systems essential to the security of the plant’s operations should be protected; and that no action should be taken to undermine the above security principles.

Ukraine and its allies have repeatedly accused Russia of using the plant as a staging ground for attacks, and officials in Kyiv have said that the Ukrainian workers at the plant were being forced to work at gunpoint .

Ukraine’s state nuclear company, Energoatom, said on Tuesday that Russia was increasing pressure on workers at the plant to sign contracts with Russia’s state nuclear firm, Rosatom, a process that began last year. If successful, it would bring the plant fully under Moscow’s institutional, as well as security, control.

“The aggressors are torturing the workers. They beat several of them, forcing them to agree to cooperate,” Energoatom said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app, adding that some Ukrainian workers had refused to sign the new contracts. It was not possible to confirm the accusations independently.

Russia has disconnected radiation monitoring sensors at the plant, according to U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive material. The officials said that the United States still has the ability to monitor the site remotely, including with sensors near the plant, and added that they were confident that they would be able to provide warning very quickly in the event of a leak.

Speaking after Mr. Grossi’s briefing, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., denounced Russia’s actions as a “clear escalation” of Moscow’s efforts to “undermine Ukrainian sovereignty and authority” over the plant.

“And this undermines our ability to have confidence in the level of nuclear safety at the plant,” she said.

The Ukrainian ambassador to the U.N., Sergiy Kyslytsya, told the Council after Mr. Grossi’s briefing, that Ukraine supported Mr. Grossi’s efforts to secure the nuclear facility but that his rules should have included a demand for its “full demilitarization and deoccupation.”

The Russian ambassador to the U.N., Vassily Nebenzia, placed full blame on Ukraine for endangering the plant. Russia, he claimed, was already abiding by the I.A.E.A.’s rules.

Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Mpoke Bigg contributed reporting.

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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has presented the U.N. Security Council with a set of rules to avoid nuclear disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The rules are fairly straightforward — one calls for “no attack of any kind, from or against the plant” — but they come after months of failed attempts to negotiate a secure zone around the facility.

The I.A.E.A.’s director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said the new rules were established in consultation with Ukraine and Russia. But it remains unclear whether the two nations have actually agreed to abide by them. After Mr. Grossi’s statement, Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. placed full blame on Ukraine for endangering the plant and categorically denied any responsibility.

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Russia has carried out more than 1,000 attacks on Ukrainian health care facilities, the W.H.O. says.

GENEVA — Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukrainian cities over the past 15 months included more than 1,000 strikes on health care facilities and services, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

The W.H.O. said it had verified 1,004 Russian attacks on health facilities since the full-scale invasion began in February of last year, more than it has recorded in any other humanitarian emergency. Those attacks killed 101 people, including medical workers and patients, and injured many more, the agency said.

“Attacks on health care are a violation of international humanitarian law,” Jarno Habicht, the organization’s representative in Ukraine, said in a statement . “They deprive people of the care they need and have wide-ranging, long-term consequences.”

Attacks on other civilian infrastructure, like power plants, have also hindered Ukraine’s health service from delivering care, Dr. Habicht said.

Despite the continued attacks, most health facilities have remained functional, even in hard-hit areas such as Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, he said. But the rising costs caused by the war have left many people struggling to afford treatment.

The W.H.O., a United Nations agency, is typically neutral on political issues. But last week at the World Health Assembly, its annual policymaking forum, its member countries voted in favor of a resolution condemning Russian attacks on health care facilities.

The 53 countries that make up the W.H.O.’s European region also backed the relocation of the regional office for noncommunicable diseases to the Danish capital, Copenhagen, from Moscow. Non-Russian staff members in the office had relocated last year after the invasion began, but Robb Butler, the executive director of W.H.O. Europe, said that it had formally notified Russia that the Moscow office would close no later than Jan. 1, 2024.

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Over a hundred Ukrainian students and parents held a fundraising event for their school, in Kyiv’s Obolon district, by selling everything from mini pizzas to cupcakes to trinkets and paintings.

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Drone strikes force Moscow to adapt its Cold War missile shield to modern warfare.

Tuesday’s drone strike on Moscow further demonstrated the spread of the war in Ukraine to the Russian capital, putting a spotlight on the city’s air defenses and the Kremlin’s attempts to adapt to a new kind of conflict.

Since the 1980s, Moscow has been ringed by a complex air defense system known as Amur , which was designed to protect the capital from intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers, a threat far different from the reality of Russia’s modern war against Ukraine.

Ukraine has denied responsibility for Tuesday’s drone attack and another this month that targeted the Kremlin, but such assaults have been increasing in frequency in Russian territory. This has forced Russia to adopt its defense systems to counter a kind of ordnance that is less lethal but much more numerous.

In January, Russia began stationing new military hardware around Moscow without official explanation, including on top of prominent buildings such as the Defense Ministry. Military experts identified the weapons as the S-400, Russia’s most sophisticated surface-to-air missile system, and the Pantsir S-1, which in its most common form is a truck carrying a relatively simple antiaircraft missile launcher.

Pantsir missiles downed five of the eight drones that attacked Moscow on Tuesday morning, according to the Defense Ministry. A video posted on social media on Tuesday and verified by The New York Times showed a Pantsir system launching a missile on the outskirts of Moscow.

The other three drones, according to the Defense Ministry, were disabled by what it called “radio-electronic warfare.” The ministry did not provide details, but starting in 2016 it has been installing an electronic jamming system known as Pole-21 on satellite towers. These systems block satellite navigation signals, causing drones and other electronically guided weapons to lose control.

As a result, Russian officials — including President Vladimir V. Putin — have tried to frame the attack on the capital as a triumph for Russian defenses.

“It’s clear what needs to be done to increase the density of the capital’s air defense systems,” Mr. Putin said in response to the attack. “And we will do just that.”

One potential issue: The effectiveness of the Pantsir and Pole systems declines greatly in densely populated areas saturated with satellite data, said Ruslan Pukhov, the director of the Moscow-based security research group CAST. To effectively counter drone attacks, he said, the Russian military must try to disable them before they reach city limits — a difficult task given the size of the country.

Defending airspace in urban areas is also more difficult than near the front lines, where most aircraft will be military. Around cities, soldiers have to track civilian aircraft, like airplanes and helicopters, while at the same time looking for radar reflections of much smaller aircraft, like unmanned drones.

“Previously, air defense systems near cities would tune out anything smaller than a helicopter,” said Ian Williams of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. “Small drones may have a radar return the size of a goose, so if you tune your radars to look for enemy drones you’ll also see a lot of birds.”

The Pantsir air-defense vehicles seen around Moscow came into service with the Russian Army in 2003, according to C.S.I.S., and have since been upgraded. Armed with short-range infrared-seeking missiles and a 30-millimeter gun directed by radar, the Pantsir was built to accompany mechanized forces like a tank column, Mr. Williams said, providing a “bubble” of protection as the convoy moves along.

They were designed and built before small drones became a major threat on the battlefield, Mr. Williams said, and although they do have some ability to shoot drones down, that is not what they were optimized to do. Attackers can also use terrain to mask the approach of low-flying aircraft, like drones, he added.

Those responsible for Tuesday’s attack, he said, appeared to be “exploiting the limitations of the Pantsir and other air-defense systems around Moscow.”

Oleg Matsnev and Riley Mellen contributed reporting.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said during a visit to Sweden on Tuesday that he expected Sweden would join the NATO alliance “in the weeks ahead,” overcoming more than a year of objections to its admission by NATO member Turkey.

Appearing with Sweden’s prime minster, Ulf Kristersson, at an air base in the country’s north, Mr. Blinken said he hoped Sweden would join NATO before a July alliance summit in Lithuania. Mr. Kristersson was also confident, referring to contributions Sweden will make to NATO “when we join the alliance.”

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U.S. defense officials said the next round of weapons sent to Ukraine would include missiles for the Patriot air defense system and more rockets for the HIMARS mobile system. The $300 million military aid package could be announced as soon as Wednesday.

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The drone attacks in Moscow are the latest assault exposing Russia’s vulnerability.

More than a year after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, a series of embarrassing attacks on Russian soil have been a direct reminder that Moscow’s territory is also vulnerable.

The latest attack on Russian soil came Tuesday, when drones left at least three residential buildings in Moscow with minor damage.

Such attacks have occurred sporadically since the war started, but they entered a new phase in December with a brazen drone assault on two military air bases deep inside Russia. A drone also hit an oil facility near an airfield in the Russian province of Kursk. And this month, a drone strike hit the Kremlin , an assault that U.S. officials said was most likely carried out by one of Kyiv’s special military or intelligence units .

An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said Kyiv was not directly involved in Tuesday’s strike but was pleased by it — the kind of language Ukraine typically uses about attacks in Russia.

Covert action by Ukraine has at times unnerved the Biden administration, but officials in Washington have been reluctant to speak about the issue publicly to avoid appearing to criticize the government in Kyiv or compromise sensitive military relationships. At the same time, some details of the terms on which the United States has supplied weapons to Ukraine have remained secret.

Tuesday’s aerial assaults in Moscow are especially significant because they are the first to have hit civilian areas in the Russian capital.

U.S. officials are still gathering information about the latest strike, according to the State Department and the National Security Council. Officials said the United States did not generally support strikes inside Russia, but noted that Russia’s aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday was the 17th this month.

That had some Ukrainians taking grim pleasure in the assault.

“I’m happy,” said Samir Memedov, 32, an account manager in Kyiv. He said he had been taking shelter in a metro station during attacks this week. “It is great that they can feel what we feel every day here.”

Mr. Memedov said that, while he doubted that the attacks in Moscow fit into the Ukrainian military’s strategy, they were satisfying since the Kremlin had claimed that it would capture Kyiv rapidly at the start of the invasion.

Russia is vulnerable to drone attacks in part because of its size — the border with Ukraine is more than 1,400 miles — but also because its air defense radars are designed to detect aircraft and missiles bigger than drones, according to Sam Bendett, an adviser on Russian Studies at CNA, a nonprofit research organization based in Virginia.

Apart from creating a sense of vulnerability in Russia, Ukrainian drone attacks would serve to test Moscow’s air defense systems and identify potential weaknesses that could be exploited in further attacks, he said.

Drones have not been the only threat unnerving Russians. Like their counterparts across the border, the authorities in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions report near-daily cross-border shelling. Recent explosions have also damaged Russian infrastructure including trains and oil depots near the border.

U.S. officials also say they believe that the Ukrainians were responsible for an explosion that damaged a bridge between the Russian mainland and the illegally annexed region of Crimea, the assassination in August of the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, the killing last month of a pro-Russian blogger and a number of attacks in Russian towns near the border with Ukraine .

Last week, a rare cross-border assault in southern Russia by anti-Kremlin fighters stretched over the course of two days, potentially opening up a new set of battlefield problems.

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The aerial assault in Moscow draws attention to Ukraine’s drone arsenal.

After Moscow was targeted with drones on Tuesday, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said Kyiv was not “directly involved,” but was “happy” to watch. It was not immediately clear what types of drones were involved.

Ukraine similarly denied responsibility for a May 3 attack on the Kremlin, though U.S. intelligence officials said that one of Ukraine’s special military or intelligence units most likely orchestrated the assault . American officials believe the two drones involved were launched from a short distance away, in or near Moscow.

Amid the continuing uncertainty about both attacks, the question remains whether Kyiv has drones with a range capable of reaching Moscow from Ukrainian territory, a distance of around 300 miles — and if so, what kind.

In December, exploding drones hit two military air bases that had been used by Russian airplanes launching missiles at Ukraine. One, the Dyagilevo base in the central Russian city of Ryazan, was about 100 miles from Moscow. Ukraine’s government did not publicly acknowledge a role in those strikes.

Last fall, Ukraine’s state-owned weapons maker, Ukroboronprom, said that it was close to developing a drone that could carry a 165-pound warhead more than 600 miles, putting Moscow well within range, and that it had completed tests of the weapon. Ukraine has not announced the use of such a long-range drone in combat.

Both Russia and Ukraine have jury-rigged a wide range of consumer drones to drop hand grenades, explode on impact or spot targets on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine has seen a flurry of adaptations of small craft, including quadro-copters with four rotors and fixed-wing drones, to spot artillery targets and drop grenades.

Ukraine has also flown a large, long-range Turkish-made military drone, the Bayraktar TB2, but its usefulness is limited by Russian air defense systems. Small drones flying at low altitudes and zigzagging over the battlefield are harder to shoot down.

Both Russia and Ukraine use attack drones, a class of weapons with a range from a few miles to a few dozen miles, also called loitering munitions that buzz over the battlefield until a target is found, then dive down and explode. Russia’s Lancet attack drone has hit Ukrainian armored vehicles and artillery pieces. The United States provided the Ukrainian military a similar weapon, the Switchblade drone, which dives onto targets and self-destructs.

Hand-built attack drones are more common in the Ukrainian military, which has a vast array. They fall into two broad categories: drones that drop munitions and return to their operators, and those that fly into a target and explode.

These are made in garage workshops in a flourishing niche of innovation by Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers, who experiment with 3-D-printed materials, explosives and custom-built software to avoid Russian electronic countermeasures.

Among the hand-built weapons, high-end, heavy-lifting drones that drop bombs capable of destroying armored vehicles can cost as much as $20,000. Small exploding drones cost a few hundred dollars. The most common type, a small craft with four propellers, can carry about two pounds of explosives about four miles.

Ukraine has “the right to project force beyond its borders” to undermine Russian attacks, the British foreign minister, James Cleverly, said on Tuesday. Military targets beyond a nation’s borders are “internationally recognized as being legitimate as part of a nation’s self-defense,” he added, while specifying that he did not have details about Tuesday's drone attacks in Moscow and was speaking more generally.

U.S. officials are still gathering information about the drone attacks in Moscow, according to the State Department and the National Security Council. Both said in statements that the United States does not support strikes inside Russia “as a general matter,” but noted that Tuesday marked the 17th time this month that Russia had struck Kyiv, frequently devastating civilian areas.

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‘Everyone is tired’: Kyiv residents struggle with exhaustion and stress amid the wave of overnight attacks.

Weeks of overnight aerial attacks are taking a toll on the residents of Ukraine’s capital, with several describing exhaustion and heightened anxiety on Tuesday after yet another drone assault jolted them from their slumber.

The air-raid sirens that echoed through Kyiv, the capital, before dawn on Tuesday marked the 17th Russian attack on the city this month alone — all but one of which were launched at night.

“These attacks are very exhausting because we do not sleep at night,” said Anastasia Yeremenko, 32. She said she was constantly worried — about her two children, about the dangers flying through the night sky, about where to hide.

“Even if I fall asleep, I have nightmares,” she added.

Ms. Yeremenko had been on the street a day earlier during a rare daytime attack , and said it had been especially terrifying because she did not “even know where to run.”

“At home I feel at least a little bit safe between the walls,” she said.

The accumulation of stress is playing out in myriad ways, according to Oleksandr Petrenko, 52, an entrepreneur.

“People have become more irritated on the roads” since the air raids intensified, he said, adding: “I think everyone is tired. Against this background, there is more negativity.”

Oksana, 33, a researcher, also acknowledged the widespread fatigue.

“I haven’t been sleeping well for three weeks now,” she said, requesting that only her first name be used because she works for the government.

Still, she professed that she had “gotten used to” the nighttime attacks, a sentiment shared by Oleksandr Masnyi, 19, who said the intensity of the attacks had not shaken him.

“I’ve been used to it since the first day,” he said. “I don’t care.”

But Larysa Okolot, 77, described the months since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 as a “nightmare,” even though she, too, was “getting used to it.”

“I’m scared, but I’m more angry about it,” said Ms. Okolot, a retiree. “I hate those who do this.”

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Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has spoken by phone with Zelensky, who briefed him on the latest Russian attacks, according to the chancellery. It said that Scholz reaffirmed Germany’s support for Ukraine and that the two leaders “agreed to continue their constructive exchange.”

Anatoly Kurmanaev

Putin has briefly commented on Tuesday’s drone attack in Moscow, telling a reporter that Russia’s air defenses had proved adequate. “We have stuff to do,” he said in a video clip published by state news media. “We know what needs to be done.”

While Putin called the performance of Moscow's air defenses “satisfactory,” he said there was room to improve. “It’s clear what needs to be done to increase the density of the capital’s air defense systems. And we will do just that,” he said.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin of Russia claimed that almost 1.5 million residents of the occupied areas of Ukraine had received Russian passports since October. His claims, which could not be independently verified, came weeks after President Vladimir V. Putin signed an edict declaring that all Ukrainians in occupied territory who refuse Russian passports could be relocated from their homes.

The Moscow strike is a psychological blow to a nation trying to ignore the war, Russian nationalists say.

Russian nationalist commentators said Tuesday that the first mass drone attack to strike Moscow highlights the government’s inability to prepare the population for a prolonged conflict that is steadily crossing the nation’s borders.

The flurry of drones that targeted the Russian capital on Tuesday morning caused minimal damage, shattering some windows in three residential buildings and lightly injuring two residents, according to local officials. The attack’s biggest impact, however, is likely to be psychological, forcing Muscovites to confront the reality of Russia’s war in Ukraine, which many have worked hard to block from their daily lives.

“If the goal was to stress the population, then the very fact that drones have appeared in the skies over Moscow has contributed to that,” wrote Mikhail Zvinchuk , a pro-war Russian military blogger who posts under the moniker Rybar and has more than a million followers on the Telegram messaging app.

The head of the country’s Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, said the attack highlighted Russia’s technological lag in drone warfare, which he has previously said is shaping the conflict in Ukraine. He also used it to step up his attacks on Russian defense officials, whom he has long accused of incompetence.

“What should common people do when explosives-laden drones are crashing into their windows?” he said in an audio message posted on Telegram on Tuesday after the Moscow attack. Using at least six different expletives to describe Russian defense officials, he added: “The people have full right to ask them these questions.”

The fact that some of the drones crashed in upscale neighborhoods gave particular resonance to Mr. Prigozhin’s broadside. “Let your homes burn,” he said, referring to military and political elites.

Pro-Kremlin propagandists tried to portray the muted public response to the drone strike as a show of Muscovites’ grit, and as being merely the latest in a long history of attacks suffered in the Russian capital throughout its history. Commentators, including Andrei Medvedev , a state media journalist and local Moscow lawmaker, argued that previous attacks have ended with Russian victories.

President Vladimir V. Putin briefly commented on Tuesday’s drone attack, telling a reporter that Russia’s air defenses had proved adequate. “We have stuff to do,” he said in a video clip published by state news media. “We know what needs to be done.”

The Kremlin’s spokesman said only that the Defense Ministry had “acted well” in responding to the attack, declining to comment further in his daily call with reporters on Tuesday. Russian officials mimicked the Kremlin’s line, with a governing party lawmaker, Andrei Gurulev, saying that Muscovites were more likely to get hit by an electric scooter than a drone in the city center.

The muted response added to a sense of what the Russian government’s critics on the right have called a leadership vacuum after increasingly brazen attacks on Russian territory . Mr. Putin, for example, did not comment on last week’s raid on the Belgorod region, which led to at least two days of heavy fighting .

“The strength of the psychological blow caused by the drone attack on Moscow is not in the scale of destruction, but in the fact that the nation’s leadership has promised us not a war, but a special military operation,” wrote Igor Girkin , a former paramilitary leader who had long called for an escalation of the war in Ukraine.

“Instead of an honest conversation with a nation, we get blurry consolations about Napoleon’s conquest of Moscow: Don’t worry, everything is going to plan,” he wrote on Telegram on Tuesday. “What is the real plan then?”

Tatiana Stanovaya, a Russian political scientist based in Paris, said that a lack of wartime leadership was becoming increasingly glaring. “Everything is built on his often voiced idea of a ‘patient nation’ that understands everything and will endure anything,” she wrote on Telegram on Tuesday, referring to Mr. Putin. “Let’s see.”

Russian officials are mimicking the Kremlin’s line in appearing to play down the drone attack on Moscow. A ruling party lawmaker, Andrei Gurulev, said Moscovites were more likely to get hit by an electric scooter than a drone in the city center. “We didn’t do too badly today,” he told state news media, referring to Russia’s air defenses.

President Vladimir V. Putin is yet to comment on the Moscow drone strike, extending his public silence on a series of increasingly brazen attacks within Russia.

Tatiana Stanovaya, a Russian political scientist based in Paris, said the lack of wartime leadership from Putin was becoming increasingly glaring. “Everything is built on his often voiced idea of a ‘patient nation,’ that understands everything and will endure anything,” she wrote on Telegram on Tuesday. “Let’s see.”

Anna Lukinova

Yulia Honcharova, a Kyiv resident, reacted to the news of the Moscow attack with a mix of anger and defiance. “I’m not among those who believe that we should bomb their residential quarters at night, but I do want them to feel what it is like to live under constant alarms like people live in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro,” she said.

The head of Russia’s Wagner private military company, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, said the drone attack highlighted Moscow’s technological shortcomings and used the episode to launch into another expletive-filled critique of Russia’s defense officials — a frequent target of his tirades.

Blinken arrives in Europe with a focus on NATO support for Ukraine.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrived in Sweden on Tuesday, kicking off a four-day visit to Nordic countries that is expected to focus on NATO’s support for Ukraine and overcoming resistance from Turkey to the alliance’s expansion.

The visit is a moment of celebration for the 31-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but also one of tension, with Sweden’s hopes of following the newest member, Finland, into the alliance still uncertain.

After the invasion of Ukraine last year, Finland and Sweden broke with decades of neutrality and sought NATO membership in a blow to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who has called the alliance’s expansion a grave threat to his country. In April, Finland won the unanimous approval required to become a member.

But Sweden’s hopes for membership remain on hold, as Turkey’s newly re-elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , complains that the country has been too tolerant of Kurdish nationalists and others he says are terrorists. Some analysts and U.S. officials say that Mr. Erdogan opposed Swedish membership in part to cast himself as tough on terrorism ahead of the election. He prevailed after a runoff vote on Sunday.

On Monday, President Biden told reporters that he had recently spoken to Mr. Erdogan to congratulate the Turkish leader on his re-election and had repeated his desire to resolve the question of Sweden’s membership.

Mr. Biden said that Mr. Erdogan “still wants to work out something on the F-16s,” a reference to fighter jets that Turkey wants to buy from the United States. Mr. Erdogan might be willing to approve Sweden’s membership in return for a U.S. sale of the jets, analysts say.

Mr. Blinken will discuss the issue with senior government officials in Sweden, as well as with his NATO counterparts in Norway, setting the stage for a July summit of NATO leaders in Lithuania.

He will emphasize U.S. support for Sweden’s membership, Dereck Hogan, the acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told reporters on Friday.

From Sweden, Mr. Blinken plans to travel to Norway for an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers and then to visit Finland, where he will deliver a speech about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine .

In Finland, where Mr. Blinken will meet with the country’s departing prime minister and foreign minister, his focus is likely to be on the country’s new status as a NATO member that shares a more than 800-mile border with Russia.

Mr. Blinken plans to deliver a speech in Helsinki, Finland, meant to highlight Russia’s strategic failures in Ukraine, probably including Finland’s decision to join NATO after 74 years as an outsider, and U.S. efforts to support Ukraine’s defense, according to a statement from a State Department spokesman.

Mr. Blinken was beginning his trip with a visit to the Swedish port town of Lulea, where he planned to lead the fourth meeting of the U.S.-E.U. Trade and Technology Council with Gina Raimondo, the commerce secretary, and Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative.

U.S. officials expect to make progress on issues including export controls on Russia and misuse of technology, Ruth Berry, an official in the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, told reporters last week .

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Here’s what we know about the drone attack on Moscow.

Moscow came under a drone attack early Tuesday, according to Russian officials, the first strike to hit civilian areas in the capital and another sign that the war in Ukraine is increasingly touching the heart of Russia.

Here is what we know about the attack.

What happened?

Explosions were reported in Moscow early on Tuesday morning, with Russia’s Defense Ministry saying that at least eight drones had targeted the capital and the surrounding region.

All of the drones were intercepted, the ministry said in a statement, saying that electronic jamming measures forced some to deviate from intended targets and that others had been shot down outside the city limits by air defenses. It did not specify what the targets may have been.

Three residential buildings in Moscow were damaged by drones after they were intercepted, according to the office of the Russian prosecutor general. Some residents were briefly evacuated early Tuesday, said Sergei Sobyanin, the city’s mayor.

Mr. Sobyanin said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that two people required medical attention but that no one was seriously injured.

Who was behind the attack?

Russia’s Ministry of Defense blamed the Ukrainian government for what it described as a “terrorist attack.”

A spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, which typically maintains a policy of strategic ambiguity about any strikes on Russian territory, declined to comment on the attack. But Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, said Kyiv was not “directly involved” in the drone assault on Moscow, though was “happy” to watch.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s equivalent to the F.B.I., said it had started an inquiry into the attack.

What was targeted?

The intended target of the drone attack was not immediately clear. Video verified by The New York Times shows a 25-story residential building on the southwestern outskirts of Moscow lightly scorched on the exterior. The wreckage of a drone wing is shown just outside the building.

Other videos verified by The Times were filmed eight miles away, outside a building where Russian news media reported that a drone had flown inside. The footage shows two apparent drone wings outside the residential building.

In additional video footage, a third building, also reported to have been hit by a drone, has a broken window. All three residential buildings in the videos are along the southwestern outskirts of Moscow in upper-middle-class areas of the city.

Russia targets Kyiv with the third wave of strikes in 24 hours.

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with yet another wave of attack drones early Tuesday, killing at least one person, setting residential buildings ablaze and extending a day of terror for the city’s residents.

For the second night in a row and the 17th this month, explosions in different parts of Kyiv jolted people out of bed and sent them scurrying for cover as Moscow launched a new assault on the city of 3.6 million.

Ukraine’s Air Force said on Tuesday that air defense teams shot down 29 of 31 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia overnight, with most targeting Kyiv.

A 33-year-old woman was killed by falling debris during the attack and at least 13 people were injured, Ivan Vyhivskyi, the acting chief of the National Police, said in a statement.

While Kyiv has been attacked since the first days of the war, the pace and intensity of the assaults in May have been jarring even for civilians now used to spending long hours in bomb shelters and sleepless nights huddled in corridors.

Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, in an appearance on national television, captured the anger of many in the city. “If the Russians can make Kyiv a nightmare, why do the people of Moscow rest?”

Not long after Mr. Klitschko spoke, Russian officials accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow. There was no comment from Ukraine’s military, which has maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity about strikes in Russia. But Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, said that Kyiv was not “directly involved.”

Yulia Honcharova, a Kyiv resident, reacted to the news of the Moscow attack with a mix of anger and defiance. “I’m not among those who believes that we should bomb their residential quarters at night, but I do want them to feel what it is like to live under constant alarms like people live in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro,” she said.

Ukrainian officials have said the concentrated attacks on Kyiv are most likely aimed at wearing down air defense systems so as to make the capital more vulnerable and at exhausting civilians.

Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv military administration, said that people in the city were reeling from attacks that were separated by hours, not days.

“In the last 24 hours, the enemy has already carried out three attacks,” he said on Tuesday morning.

Before dawn on Tuesday, Russia targeted Kyiv with more than three dozen drones and cruise missiles fired from multiple directions to try to confuse air defense systems. Then, less than six hours later, Moscow launched a rare daytime barrage of ballistic missiles at the city, sending residents, including schoolchildren carrying their backpacks, running for cover.

The largely successful work of Ukraine’s air defense teams this month has saved scores of lives and limited the damage from the strikes.

But drones and missiles still pose a danger to civilians as debris rains down on the streets below.

“Everything that is destroyed in the sky, unfortunately, flies to the ground and brings suffering to people,” Mykola Oleschuk, commander of Ukraine’s air force, said in a statement on Tuesday morning.

Russia has stepped up attacks on Kyiv as Ukraine is gearing up for a counteroffensive .

Mr. Zelensky, in his overnight speech to the nation on Monday, said that each “terrorist attack” against the capital and other cities “brings us and the whole world to an obvious conclusion: Russia wants to follow the path of evil to the end.”

Vowing to respond to Russian aggression on the battlefield, Mr. Zelensky said his government had approved the dates for the start of the offensive operations.

“The decisions have been made,” he said.

Anna Lukinova and Nataliia Novosolova contributed reporting.