Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera x Valentine’s Day
The Phantom returns with the most romantic ghost story ever told at Scotland's oldest concert hall this Valentine's Day!
About Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera x Valentine’s Day
| 14th February 2026 | |
| 8.30pm | |
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St Cecilias Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1LG |
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£5.58 - £43.51 Find Tickets |
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Moonlight Concerts return to Edinburgh with a musical show inspired by Valentine's Day!
Storyteller and concert pianist Matthew Shiel, international opera singer and BBC TV and radio star Patricia Hammond and acclaimed Shanghainese Disney illustrator Emma Yitong Shen collaborate on a new show inspired by the greatest ghost story every told - Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1910).
Venetian masks, operatic arias, dramatic silhouette's and the most haunting piano pieces ever written meet alongside romantic candlelight recitations of Gaston Leroux's original novel and an ethereal digital art exhibition designed by acclaimed Chinese artist and Disney illustrator Emma Yitong Shen – to create a simultaneously thrilling and terrifying musical experience designed to seduce your senses - and lure you away to the phantom's lair!
"Christine, you must love me!"
Following their 5***** and sold-out shows in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,
"a most enchanting concert" (5***** Edinburgh Guide)
"A ripping good yarn. Sim and Shiel both are masters of their crafts." (5***** Binge Fringe Magazine)
"profound" (5***** Corr Blimey)
"crowd-pleasing tunes and showmanship" (4****Three Weeks)
"exhilarating hour of music - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" (Fringe Review)
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