The Police: the concert film “Sting Live At Chambord” on Rai5, Stewart Copeland on tour in Italy for 3 dates

by Claudio Fabretti

16-06-2025

The Renaissance meets rock. Against the backdrop of the Château de Chambord, a UNESCO World Heritage site, Sting performs a concert from his "My Songs" tour, recorded on 28 June 2022 and airing Tuesday 17 June at 11:05pm on Rai 5 (later streaming on RaiPlay) under the title Sting Live at Chambord.

The event, originally scheduled two years earlier and twice postponed because of the pandemic, drew spectators from all over France to the Loire Valley, itself a UNESCO site. The setlist features a selection of the best-known songs from Sting's solo career and his time with the Police, in a format he rarely revisits live.

The concert opens with "Message In A Bottle", followed by, among others, "Englishman In New York", "Fields Of Gold", "Shape Of My Heart", "Every Breath You Take", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", "Walking On The Moon" and "Roxanne".

On stage, Sting appears in a yellow jacket and a red-and-black striped shirt, the very look that earned the young, jazz-loving teacher in a striped jumper the nickname "Stinger", later shortened to "Sting". It stuck so firmly that even his six children call him that rather than his real name, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, given to him by his parents, a milkman and a hairdresser from Wallsend, a port town in the north of England

The evening at the château closes with "Fragile", performed together with Australian violinist Patrick Roberts, bound to Sting by a friendship and artistic partnership sealed by the album of the same name as the song, half of whose proceeds went to rainforest conservation.

Speaking of the Police, Stewart Copeland, the band's legendary drummer and founder, is set to return to Italy in July with "Police Deranged For Orchestra", a sweeping orchestral reworking of the songs that made the band he shared with Sting and Andy Summers legendary. Drawing on his experience as a composer for opera, orchestral music and ballet, Copeland turns the Police's hits into an entirely new symphonic experience.

On stage, audiences will get to rediscover timeless classics such as "Roxanne", "Don't Stand So Close To Me" and "Message In A Bottle", reinterpreted with a fresh orchestral breadth. He will be accompanied by the Ensemble Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Attila Simon, on a journey spanning over four decades of musical career.

The tour, organised by Imarts – International Music And Arts of Carpi (Modena), will stop in three cities:

On stage alongside Copeland will be vocalists Sarah-Jane, Laise Sanches and Raquel Brown, guitarist Gianni Rojatti, bassist Faso (known for his work with Elio e le Storie Tese), pianist Vittorio Cosma (a member of Elio e le Storie Tese and The Producers) and the 27-piece Ensemble Symphony Orchestra.

“The reworking of these songs”, Copeland explains, *”started out as a soundtrack for a film made from Super8 footage of the band, shot during our rise to success. Cinema has particular requirements, and because of that the music had to undergo a radical transformation. I dissected the Police songs to fit them to the scenes of the film, and once I got going, I let myself be swept up by inspiration. Studying the original tracks and the live recordings, I rediscovered forgotten guitar solos, bass lines and vocal improvisations too good to be lost. After twenty years of composing for film, the idea of merging that experience with my past in the Police became inevitable, and that's how 'Police Deranged For Orchestra' came about"

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Claudio Fabretti, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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