There was a time when gaming was relegated to low-culture status, but not anymore. After decades of persistence, gaming is celebrated in all the ways the other arts are – with books and movies and critics and all that other junk. It also means there’s an actual audience who wants to hear the music from video games performed by a full orchestra, because they’re classy as shit.
If you’re keen to take a night off from alternating between paragliding and beating skeletons to death with their own arms, the Zelda Symphony Orchestra will be coming to Melbourne and Perth for the very first time (and also Auckland, if you’re one of those people [Kiwis]).
The show features a “fully developed and thoughtfully structured program” with songs from the scores of ‘Ocarina of Time‘, ‘Wind Waker‘, ‘Twilight Princess‘, ‘Link to the Past‘, ‘Link’s Awakening‘, ‘Breath of the Wild‘, ‘Skyward Sword‘ and (somehow) more.
If hearing the bloody Hyrule theme doesn’t give you damn tingles, my friend, I cannot help you:
It’s a symphony fit for the goddesses, and Auckland, Perth & Melbourne tickets are on sale now! pic.twitter.com/LCuDOljczP
— Nintendo AU NZ (@NintendoAUNZ) June 26, 2017
If you’re keen beans, the dates and venues are as follows:
PERTH: Riverside Theatre, August 24
MELBOURNE: Hamer Hall, September 3 (two shows)
AUCKLAND: ASB Theatre, August 14
You can get tickets from here. Get amongst it.
Photo: Nintendo.
