Watch Elton John join Dua Lipa on stage at special Royal Albert Hall orchestral show

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Dua Lipa performed a special one-off gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall last night (Thursday October 17), where she was joined on stage by Sir Elton John for ‘Cold Heart’.

Check out footage, photos and more below.The show, featuring the 43-piece Heritage Orchestra along with a 14-strong choir and seven-piece band, saw Lipa perform in the round in the centre of the iconic venue for a show that was filmed to be televised at a later date.Speaking to the crowd after giving ‘Radical Optimism‘ track ‘End Of An Era’ its live debut and giving ‘Houdini’ the James Bond theme treatment, the singer told the audience (who arrived with the memo of being “dressed to impress”) of how putting the performance together was “a dream”.“I’ve been looking forward to this show for such a long time and it’s a show I’ve been looking forward to more than any other,” she said, noting how she “missed her dancers” but was honoured to share the stage with The Heritage Orchestra in a venue that had seen the likes of Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and Albert Einstein – joking that none of that trio had performed with her dancers and that she was “almost as sure they didn’t have a dress as nice as this.After giving some Flamenco energy to the live debut of ‘Maria’ and a spirited take on ‘French Exit’, Dua Lipa paid tribute to “fellow London girl” Cleo Soul with a cover of ‘Sunshine’ (a song that she said “just moves me” and that tonight was “fitting” to play it here tonight with such grandeur.Ultimately, Lipa said that it was “so interesting going to the bare bones of the music” in reimagining her music with an orchestra and that it was the “organic sounds” of her recent album ‘Radical Optimism’ that bought us to this moment.Returning for an.