Born to be bad

It will be music from movies like The Silence of the Lambs, Die Hard, Star Wars V – The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter, The Usual Suspects, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Misery. On stage the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Charles Hazlewood with soprano soloist Sabina Zweiacker. The host, as usual, is Orvar Säfström. For the fifth year in a row, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra collaborates with Orvar Säfström and Underscore Productions.

Season 2019/2020
Date has passed
Berwaldhallen
2 hours (with intermission)

Programme:

Act 1
John Williams – Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back – Imperial March
Danny Elfman – Batman – Waltz to the Death
John Ottman – The Usual Suspects – Main Theme/I Work for Keyser Söze/The Greatest Trick
Christopher Young – Hellraiser – The Hellbound Heart/Re-resurrection
Howard Shore – The Silence of the Lambs – Main Theme/Lecter Escapes (inklusive del av Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldbergvariationerna)
Howard Shore – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Gollum’s Song

Intermission

Act 2
Ramin Djawadi – Game of Thrones – Jenny of Oldstones/Winter is Here
John Carpenter – Halloween – Main Theme
Marc Shaiman – Misery – Number One Fan (inkl del av Ludwig van Beethoven Månskenssonaten)
Michael Kamen – Die Hard – The Nakatomi Plaza/Gruber’s Arrival/The Vault (inkl del av Ludwig van Beethoven – An die Freude)
Patrick Doyle – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Voldemort
Wojciech Kilar – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – The Beginning/Vampire Hunters

Image used by kind permission of Warner Home Video.

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