The Fellowship of the Ring – Chicago, Mar 13 – 14, 2026

Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Fellowship of the Ring
In Concert

HOWARD SHORE’S Academy Award-winning Score Performed Live to the Epic Motion Picture
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, SOLOISTS
238 MUSICIANS ONSTAGE BENEATH A 60-FOOT SCREEN

The Auditorium, Chicago
March 13 – 14, 2026

Tickets: https://www.auditoriumtheatre.org/events/detail/lord-of-the-rings-1056872

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, In Concert, is coming to Chicago’s landmark, The Auditorium. Howard Shore’s Academy and Grammy Award-winning score will be presented live, in concert. Experience the epic motion picture and its legendary score beneath a 60-foot screen accompanied by 238 musicians, including symphony orchestra, chorus and soloists, March 13 and 14, 2026. This Production of The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, is presented by CAMI Music, and follows over 15 years of sold-out performances across the globe. Celebrating the film’s 25th anniversary, this marks a return to the Chicago area for the first time in eight years following the last series of performances at the Ravinia Festival.

The live performances of Howard Shore’s score of The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, are unmatched in the movie-going experience – the iconic score having been voted No .1 in the Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

There’s probably never been as ambitious a film score as Howard Shore’s 10-hour epic for the “Lord of the Rings” series… the music is rich and complex, drawing on a vast range of styles and exotic instruments to evoke J.R.R. Tolkien’s world… Shore uses an elaborate leitmotif technique (where musical themes are associated with specific characters or ideas, and are developed across the entire series) to hold the sprawling tale together. Lush, beautiful and full of intriguing surprises, it’s no wonder that it’s become one of the most popular film scores ever written. 
– Stephen Brookes for the Washington Post, May 2008

The epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), The Return of the King (2003) – directed by Peter Jackson and based on the beloved J.R.R. Tolkien novel became an international phenomenon.  Released by New Line Cinema, the trilogy is among the highest earning films of all time and won a total of 17 Academy Awards.  Howard Shore was honored with Academy Awards for Original Score for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Return of the King(2003), and for Original Song for “Into the West,” featured in The Return of the King (2003). Shore’s work on the trilogy was also honored with two Golden Globes and four Grammy Awards. 

Howard Shore commented on the return of The Fellowship of the Ring, In Concert to Chicago: “The Lord of the Rings has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted a global fan-base, but the fan community doesn’t often have the opportunity to come together in person and coalesce around a performance at this high level. There is something unique and powerful that happens – a synergy is created in bringing together the music – live on a large scale, with the films, in a magnificent house.”

Tickets: https://www.auditoriumtheatre.org/events/detail/lord-of-the-rings-1056872