Press

26/11/2017 https://www.tbo.com/news/world/one-year-later-fidel-castros-death-met-with-tributes-in-cuba-8212-and-a/234509217/11/2017 Euro News ‘Londoner Musical uber Fidel Castro’
https://de.euronews.com/2017/11/17/londoner-musical-uber-fidel-castro

17/11/2017 Cuba Net ‘Fidel Castro llega al teatro en forma de musical’
https://de.euronews.com/2017/11/17/londoner-musical-uber-fidel-castro

17/11/2017 British Theatre Guide ‘Fidel!’
https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/fidel-st-paul-s-churc-15241

16/11/2017 Washington Post ‘Fidel Castro’s Life is set to music on stage’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/fidel-castros-life-is-set-to-music-on-stage/2017/11/15/84ced65e-ca50-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_video.html?utm_term=.d0e31778486d

16/11/2017 The Malay Online ‘Fidel Castro’s life set to music (video)’
https://www.themalaymailonline.com/showbiz/article/fidel-castros-life-is-set-to-music-video#QxRAjrqF5M0Bds5E.97

16/11/2017 MSN ‘’Fidel’, a musical about the Cuban revolutionary leader, opens in London.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/nerdcore/fidel-castros-life-is-set-to-music/vp-BBF0Fnp

16/11/2017 CiberCuba ‘Londres prepara un musical sobre la vida de Fidel Castro’
https://www.cibercuba.com/videos/noticias/2017-11-16-u1-e192519-londres-prepara-musical-vida-fidel-castro

16/11/2017 Euro News ‘Fidel Castro, el musical’
https://es.euronews.com/2017/11/16/fidel-castro-el-musical

15/11/2017 TeleSurTV ‘New Fidel Musical Celebrates Cuban Revolution in London’ https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/New-Fidel-Musical-Celebrates-Cuban-Revolution-in-London-20171115-0027.html

15/11/2017 Reuters. ‘Fidel Castro’s life set to music’ https://www.reuters.com/video/2017/11/15/fidel-castros-life-is-set-to-music?videoId=372985832

¿ America Teve ‘Pondrán en escena un musical titulado “Fidel”, en Londres’
https://www.americateve.com/videos/pondran-escena-un-musical-titulado-fidel-londres-243381

Read about how an academic felt driven to write a musical in https://theconversation.com/our-musical-fidel-will-try-to-puncture-the-polarised-debate-about-castro-69508.

See the interview with Dr Denise Baden on BBC24 following Fidel Castro’s death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApT5wYHSCg. This got over 3 millions views and was deconstructed in an article by medialens.

News has spread to Mexico where an article on our Fidel musical project appeared in Proceso magazine 4/12/2016 https://noticias.vlex.com.mx/vid/fidel-musical-inglaterra-655477413

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/14930315.Fidel_Castro_musical_could_come_to_Edinburgh_Festival_following_Cuban_leader_s_death/

‘Springtime for Fidel’: BBC Cuba expert composed Castro musical https://order-order.com/2016/11/28/springtime-fidel-bbc-cuba-expert-composed-castro-musical/

See the review of our Gala performance in the Daily Echo  https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/leisure/stage/14230909.Music_students_on_to_a_winner_with_songs_for_Fidel_the_Musical/

Songs from ‘Fidel’ being played on Radio Solent (DAB radio, 96.1 and 103.8 FM) Monday 18th Jan 2016 7.50-8.20am. Listen and tweet in your votes for your favourite song.

Check out the great write up in the Daily Echo 11th Jan 2016  https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/leisure/stage/14195687.Castro_themed_musical_brings_power_to_the_people/

An article was published in Times Higher Education 25th June 2015 about the competition see https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/curtain-to-rise-on-Fidel-the-Musical

Dr Denise Baden was interviewed on BBC radio about the competition – listen on https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02n3152

An article about the competition also appeared in Positive News, see https://positivenews.org.uk/2015/culture/17599/musical-education-programme-engages-students-cubas-self-sufficiency-success/

The Dahttps://www.dailyecho.co.uk/leisure/news/14169962.X_Factor_style_contest_to_find_best_songs_for_Fidel_Castro_musical/ily Echo talks about our X-factor event