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Here is a late review of the Vienna show from Austrian news website Kurier.at by its writer Brigitte Schokarth.  One of our "sleuths-in-residence" (because we are lucky to have several), Drakulka CZ, found this gem and already generated the translation from Google Translate (thank you!).  It includes a 15-photo gallery. This one has some really nice quotes, too.

translated via Google Translate / minor edits by broddybounce

An American Idol finalist to Freddie Mercury's place? Inclined - but convincing.

"I want an honest answer: What do you think of this man?"  Queen guitarist Brian May stood on stage at the Wiener Stadthalle and held up the arm of singer Adam Lambert. 10,500 fans trample, scream and yell, show unequivocally that they feel the same way as May himself: for the band that wrote with her bombastic rock sound and the singer Freddie Mercury died in 1991, music history, Lambert was a lucky find.

(Photo caption: Singer Adam Lambert, just turned 33, is the legendary rock band Queen prospects for the future.)

For the Vienna concert Sunday night, the 33-year-old American, the Queen in 2009 at the finale of the talent show "American Idol" met, as the best singer, have the May and drummer Roger Taylor collaborated with the after Mercury's death showed.

Above all, convinced his magnificent voice, strong, subtle exalted and to the extent the same as that of Freddie. In the town hall Lambert shines so especially in the ballads "Save Me" and "Who Wants To Live Forever". Both he sings almost too beautiful. Mercury was doing more charisma, more character, more excitement. But eventually Lambert is non-runner to replace Freddie, but "to celebrate him and the band" around.

Devotedly

And the Queen do on this tour devotedly - with more than two hours full power and triumphant, memorable melodies. There are the traditional Echoplex solo by May, in which he lays harmonies over their own echo. Okay, the Danube waltz falls here today bumpy. But no matter, May was injured, still suffering from a chill. Perhaps this is why he initially a bit unfocused worked, not with so much feeling as otherwise solos.

But band and the audience increased from song to song. Or better: Hit to hit. "Love Of My Life" acoustically in the middle part - recorded with Freddie in image and sound - made for the first mass choir. A drum duel between Roger Taylor and his son Rufus Tiger was cheered, because it so clearly showed the class of this musician.

And now comes the striking bass riff of "Under Pressure" through the hall. Finally, it also tears people in the stands of the seats. Thanks to Lambert, Queen can in fact now play these these big, higher pitched songs. This was missing on tours with Paul Rodgers, because the hearty, sober blues singer had not come across well.

Glamour

This is the second major advantage of Lambert: The open-ended his homosexuality ("out") singer brings his appearance in what was going on in painful Rodgers - glamour, wit, a twinkle in his eye, pompous posturing. In "Killer Queen" he tagged on a purple sofa Diva; sometimes he wears a gold-fringed jacket, sometimes a red plaid pants.

In the brilliant finale with "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" even sits a crown on his head. All in all, a reaction which not only suits this lush, anthemic rock sound - he even demands.

Sure Brian May has asked not random, as Lambert arrives at the fans. For that is essential for the future of this incomparable band: If it has one, then only with him.