George Lucas's Star Wars screens in full at the Royal Albert Hall while the London Symphony Orchestra plays John Williams' score live under Ludwig Wicki.
George Lucas’s Star Wars screens in full at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington on Thursday 29 April 2027, with John Williams’ score played live. The London Symphony Orchestra performs under Ludwig Wicki.
Lucas wrote and directed the film, released in 1977. Mark Hamill plays Luke Skywalker, who joins the Rebel Alliance on a mission to rescue Princess Leia from Darth Vader and the Empire.
Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Alec Guinness co-star. Guinness plays Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Jedi Master who begins Luke’s training on the desert planet Tatooine.
The London Symphony Orchestra recorded Williams’ original soundtrack, so the orchestra on stage is the one heard on the film. The full original dialogue plays with subtitles.
The evening opens the Hall’s first Star Wars in-concert weekend, which plays the whole original trilogy across four days. A New Hope plays again as a Saturday matinee on 1 May, and The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi follow with the same orchestra and conductor.