The premiere of John Paul Jones’ next musical project will take place in London in October 2025, LedZepNews has learned.

Jones is writing a song cycle for opera singer Dame Sarah Connolly based on a series of poems, he revealed recently in a podcast interview with Steinway.

LedZepNews has now learned that the song cycle will have its premiere in London in October 2025. Further details on the premiere of Jones’ new song cycle will come when the 2025/2026 season is announced. That means we should learn more around April 2025.

“I’ve got four poems from some Americans poets and some British poets,” Jones said in the podcast interview with Steinway that was published last month. “You’ve searched for these poems, that’s the hardest part, finding the poem that fits. They have to be related to each other slightly, these poems. And they are, there is a common theme which again I won’t reveal just yet.”

The first public mention of a collaboration between Jones and Dame Sarah came in 2018 when The Telegraph reported that the pair were working together on new songs as well as Jones’ Ghost Sonata musical.

“You might be surprised to know that I’ve been a Led Zeppelin fan since my youth,” Dame Sarah said in the interview. “They’ve written some really fantastic music, so inventive and passionate. John Paul is a really gifted composer, and I can’t wait to hear what he has come up with.”

The next sign that the pair were working together came when the Twitter account @JohnPaulJones, which seems to be the man himself, followed Dame Sarah’s Twitter account last year. 

And when Jones was announced in 2023 as a performer at the 2024 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, his biography on the festival website included the following section: “John is currently composing a song cycle for Dame Sarah Connolly which has been commissioned by a number of the finest, as yet unannounced, contemporary classical music venues and ensembles in the world.”