London’s first live orchestral performance with an audience announced

Aurora Orchestra under the West Handyside Canopy, King’s Cross

For the first time since the UK locked down in March, an orchestra are getting together and performing to a live audience in London.

The performance will be presented by Aurora Orchestra - a vibrant organisation who seek to produce ‘orchestral theatre’, and bring the richest musical experiences to the broadest possible audience.

They’ll be performing Beethoven’s joyful and intensely rhythmic seventh symphony and, what’s more, it’ll be done so entirely from memory.

The performance will take place under the West Handyside Canopy in Kings Cross – without chairs, sheet music or music stands.

At through the noise we’re pretty excited about this one (Aurora brought the simply wonderful semi-staged Symphonie Fantastique to the BBC Proms last year) so we’ll be chatting about it more in depth over on our events page soon!

EDIT (02/09): After the initial performance sold-out almost immediately, Aurora Orchestra have announced another later that same evening! You can grab some tickets for that one - while they last - here.

Monday 7 September, 8.15pm. Tickets £15-40.