The Holiday: The Film with Live orchestra

A screening of the 2006 romantic comedy The Holiday, accompanied by a live orchestra playing the score in the hall at Eventim Apollo in London.

The Holiday is a film concert in which the film is shown on screen while an orchestra performs its music live alongside the picture. The format belongs to the film-with-live-orchestra genre, where the soundtrack is played in concert rather than heard from a recording. The title refers to the 2006 romantic comedy directed by Nancy Meyers, with Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two women who swap homes at Christmas, and the evening is built around its score.

The programme consists of the complete film with the orchestra playing from the stage below the screen, so the audience follows the story and the music together. Those drawn to film music and to romantic comedies will find the most to follow here, as will anyone who wants to hear a familiar score performed in a concert hall rather than through a cinema sound system.

Eventim Apollo is a concert venue at 45 Queen Caroline Street in Hammersmith, west London, and is used for concerts, comedy and shows as well as film presentations.