Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean screens in full at the Royal Albert Hall while the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and London Voices play Klaus Badelt’s score live.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl screens in full at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington on Tuesday 29 December 2026. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields plays Klaus Badelt’s score live.
Gore Verbinski directed the film, the first in Disney’s franchise, released in July 2003. Johnny Depp plays Captain Jack Sparrow, whose ship, the Black Pearl, is stolen by his rival Captain Barbossa, played by Geoffrey Rush.
Barbossa’s crew kidnaps Elizabeth, the governor’s daughter, played by Keira Knightley. Her childhood friend Will Turner, played by Orlando Bloom, joins forces with Jack to rescue her and take back the ship.
The Hall shows the film with its full original dialogue, subtitled, in a presentation licensed by Disney Concerts. The orchestra and a choir perform Badelt’s score to picture.
Sir Neville Marriner founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 1958. It is the principal orchestral partner of St Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square, its historic home, and the violinist Joshua Bell directs it.
The choir London Voices joins the orchestra, and David Mahoney conducts both of the day’s performances, a matinee and an evening show.