Orchestra of Opera North plays live score of film classic

Retro blockbuster film Back to the Future was screened alongside an orchestra performance during a Millennium Square event.

The Orchestra of Opera North played Alan Silvestri’s score live while the 1985 time travel classic was projected above the stage.

STANDING OVATION: Conductor Jessica Cottis with the Orchestra of Opera North in Millennium Square.placeholder image
STANDING OVATION: Conductor Jessica Cottis with the Orchestra of Opera North in Millennium Square.

It was performed on Sunday as part of a series of summer concerts put on by Leeds-based Opera North in the City in partnership with Leeds City Council. The musicians and conductor Jessica Cottis received a standing ovation as the film came to a close.

The plot follows the story of Marty McFly and his eccentric scientist friend Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown as the youngster travels back to the 1950s in a time machine made from a DeLorean car.

Other events in the series included the performance of arias from Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

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