Chris Columbus’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets screens in full at the Royal Albert Hall while the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra plays John Williams’s score live.
The second Harry Potter film, Chamber of Secrets, screens in full at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 October 2027. The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra plays its score live.
Chris Columbus directed the film in 2002 from J.K. Rowling’s novel. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson play Harry, Ron and Hermione in their second year at Hogwarts, where a monster loosed from a hidden chamber turns students to stone.
John Williams composed the score while he was scoring two other films. William Ross arranged the themes from the first film into the new material and conducted the recording sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra.
The film first screened at the Odeon Leicester Square on 3 November 2002. It returns to the Films in Concert series after earlier sold-out runs, with its original dialogue on screen and subtitled. The three days hold several matinee and evening performances.
Justin Freer conducts. He is president of CineConcerts, the company behind the Harry Potter Film Concert Series, which produces this performance.