The U.K.’s best-selling classical artist Russell Watson has announced a massive U.K. tour beginning in March 2014.

The tour succeeds Russell’s eagerly awaited new album Only One Man which will be released on November 11th. The album and tour features brand new songs, written specially for Russell Watson, by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, the phenomenally successful writers of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon.

Russell Watson has won four Classical BRIT Awards and has sold over eight million records worldwide. Russell is also the first artiste to hold simultaneous number ones in the U.S.A. and the U.K.

The Tour starts in Sheffield on March 19^th and will call at venues such as the Birmingham Symphony Hall on March 24^th, Gateshead Sage on the 26^th March and Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on the 28^th before coming to the Philharmonic Hall on Monday 31^st March. Russell Watson will also be performing twice at the Manchester Bridgewater Hall on April 7^th and 8^th before finishing in style at the London Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 15^th April.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 1^st November at 10am. Tickets are available from www.gigsandtours.com  on 0844 811 0051 or from the Philharmonic Hall Box office.