BBC SSO 2026/27: Metropolis

The BBC SSO performs Gottfried Huppertz's original score live to a screening of Fritz Lang's silent sci-fi classic Metropolis at City Halls.

To mark the centenary of Fritz Lang's 1927 silent masterpiece Metropolis, City Halls screens the film with Gottfried Huppertz's full original score performed live by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ben Palmer, a specialist in live-to-picture performance, leads the orchestra through the dystopian tale of a futuristic city where a revolutionary, a tyrant, an inventor and a robot goddess collide. The screening runs approximately 2 hours 30 minutes plus a 20-minute interval and is rated PG.