"The project that we are currently doing with Elton John is unprecedented," said Nadezhda Solovyova, the head of the group of companies SAV Entertainment and "Russian Show-Center."
The show, featuring Elton on his famous red Yamaha grand piano, as well as pop art, neon sculpture, inflatable figures and balloons, was first staged in 2004 in the luxury Las Vegas casino Caesars Palace.
Due to overwhelming demand, the singer's engagement was extended for an additional 166 shows, bringing the final number to more than 240. The final Las Vegas show was staged on Wednesday.
The Red Piano sets will be dismantled from the Las Vegas stage and transported to Russia in 48 trucks.
"It [the show] will not involve just Elton John and his band," the other head of the group, Vladimir Zubitskiy, said. "Over 120 people arrive with the show."
Sir Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in England in 1947, is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning pop-rock singer. He is one of the most successful artists of all time, selling more than 250 million albums and over 100 million singles. The singer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and knighted in 1998.
He is well-known for his work in the fight against AIDS and in 1992 set up the Elton John Aids Foundation, which has raised over $125 million to support programs in 55 countries around the globe.
He also took part in a civil partnership ceremony to his partner David Furnish on December 21, 2006, the day that legislation came into effect in the Britain offering same-sex couples legal rights similar to married people.
