Some film scores don’t just accompany a story, they become it. Howard Shore’s music for The Lord of the Rings isn’t background. It’s the reason certain scenes hit the way they do, twenty-five years on.
That score – Academy Award®, Grammy, and Golden Globe winning – comes to Australia this year in a spectacular live concert. The officially licensed production will be performed live by a full symphony orchestra, chorus and soloists as the film plays on the screen above. With more than 200 musicians and choristers on the stage, this is The Fellowship of the Ring in unparalleled grandeur.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring In Concert marks the 25th anniversary of Peter Jackson’s acclaimed first instalment. The film that introduced Middle-earth to a generation, swept the awards circuit, and, in doing so, produced one of the most celebrated scores in cinema history. Shore’s writing for the trilogy is counted among film music’s most complex and comprehensive works: a vast, intricately developed symphonic architecture drawn from centuries of stylistic tradition and yet unmistakably its own.
In this concert format, the score is performed live to picture, with the music given permission to bear the full narrative weight, which is what Shore always intended. These in concert performances will go far beyond screening with accompaniment, as you are transported into Tolkein’s world with the full emotion of this great work of art.
Shore himself describes Fellowship as “the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkein,” a score he holds with fondness: from the whimsical themes of the Shire to the baleful booms of Khazad-dûm, the music maps an entire world – its people, its textures, its grief and its hope. With over 200 voices and instruments bringing the work to life, Tolkein’s world will embrace – and envelop – you.
The show runs just over three hours: Act I (1h 34m), a 20-minute interval, Act II (1h 25m).
Tickets are on sale now. For media and other enquiries, please contact us.
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