Hans Zimmer ‘World of Hans Zimmer World Tour’ 2025: The place to purchase tickets

For as soon as, we’re excited for a reboot.

In 2024, Hans Zimmer performed arenas throughout North America on his ‘Hans Zimmer Live Tour.’ In any respect reveals, the charismatic five-time Grammy winner was entrance and middle performing his timeless “Lion King,” “Interstellar” and “Dark Knight” movie scores together with a world-class orchestra and rockin’ band.

This time round, like every good reimagining of a preferred franchise, he’s switching issues up.

Beginning in September 2025, ‘The World of Hans Zimmer – A New Dimension’ that includes longtime Zimmer collaborator, composer Matt Dunkley, will hit enormous venues everywhere in the U.S. and Canada.

That features a cease at Newark, NJ’s Prudential Heart on Sunday, Sept. 14.

“There’s ‘Hans Zimmer Live’ where Hans is onstage with this really big rock band and orchestra,” Dunkley instructed us in an unique interview. “Then, there’s ‘The World of Hans Zimmer,’ the one that I conduct, which is a little more symphonic. We still have a band, but it’s not quite as big as Hans’ and we have a larger orchestra. So we’re coming at the music from a different angle.”

“It’s a different setlist,” Dunkley added. “The idea is we go through a journey through Hans’ 40 years of film scoring. So we go right from early days with ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ all the way up to ‘Dune Two’ and stopping off in ‘Interstellar’ and ‘Gladiator’ and we’ve got incredible soloists and amazing singers.”

“The difference is Dunkley knows what he’s doing,” Zimmer quipped. “I’m just making it up as I go. So you get a much more refined show. Matt is one of the world’s foremost figures in film music. There’s no one I trust more to bring this music to life on stage.”

Dunkley received’t be making his Zimmer debut right here; he really took this ‘World of Hans Zimmer’ model of the dwell present on the street throughout Europe final fall, visiting 31 cities throughout the continent. Higher but, the Grammy-nominated composer carried out “Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” in studio alongside the maestro.

Plus, he’ll be including his personal prospers in any respect live shows.

“I’m actually going to play trumpet in one number,” the previous skilled trumpeter turned arranger/conductor, beamed.

“See? He’s completely and utterly mad,” Hans laughed.

Followers should buy tickets for all upcoming North American Hans Zimmer reveals on websites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale for the ‘The World of Hans Zimmer – A New Dimension’ is Friday, Might 2.

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Need to see Zimmer abroad? You will discover tickets for his European reveals right here.

Hans Zimmer tour schedule 2025

An entire calendar together with all tour dates, venues and hyperlinks to purchase tickets could be discovered beneath.

Hans Zimmer set checklist

This previous February, Zimmer headlined at Brooklyn’s Barclays Heart. The New York Submit had the pleasure of attending and wrote that the cinematic live performance contained “epic, freewheeling music that was equal parts controlled opera and theatrical rock show” and made viewers members really feel as in the event that they have been the primary character in one of many movies he scores.

Zimmer: That was the thought. I wished you to to make up your personal unique expertise. Shut your eyes, hold your eyes open, no matter you wish to do. However that is music in your dream, so that you can be the hero of the story.

And, whereas issues will possible be a bit totally different for this subsequent run of reveals, right here’s a have a look at what Zimmer carried out that night, courtesy of Set Checklist FM.

Set I

01.) “A Time of Quiet Between the Storms”

02.) “Mombasa”

03.) “Wonder Woman Suite: Part I”

04.) “Wonder Woman Suite: Part II”

05.) “Wonder Woman Suite: Part III”

06.) “What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?”

07.) “Dark Phoenix Suite”

08.) “Man of Steel Suite: Part II”

09.) “Gladiator Suite: Part I”

10.) “Gladiator Suite: Part II”

11.) “Gladiator Suite: Part III”

12.) “Gladiator Suite: Part IV”

13.) “Jack Sparrow”

14.) “Pirates of the Caribbean Suite: Part II”

15.) “Pirates of the Caribbean Suite: Part III”

Set II

16.) “House Atreides”

17.) “The Dark Knight Suite: Part I”

18.) “The Dark Knight Suite: Part II”

19.) “The Last Samurai Suite: Part I”

20.) “The Last Samurai Suite: Part II”

21.) “The Last Samurai Suite: Part III”

22.) “X-MDP”

23.) “Paul’s Dream”

24.) “Interstellar Suite: Part I”

25.) “Interstellar Suite: Part II”

26.) “The Lion King Suite: Part I” (with Lebo M)

27.) “The Lion King Suite: Part II”

28.) “The Lion King Suite: Part III” (with Lebo M)

Encore

29.) “No Time to Die Suite”

30.) “Inception: Time”

Word: Zimmer didn’t really go away the stage for his encore; the band performed on after “Lion King” straight into the “No Time to Die Suite.”

Hans Zimmer and Matt Dunkley interview

Forward of the tour, we spoke with Zimmer and Dunkley at size in regards to the tour, Hans’ profession, upcoming movie initiatives and life on the street. Under, you’ll discover a condensed and frivolously edited model of that chat.

Are there any showstopping numbers you guys are notably enthusiastic about for this tour?

Dunkley: I completely love ‘Interstellar.’ It’s actually near my coronary heart. I like the movie and it’s my youngest son’s favourite film. Each three months we sit down and watch it collectively, which is form of cool. Now he’s finding out astrophysics so he understands it and he explains it to my little mind.

However there are such a lot of stunning moments in our reveals. Although we’re taking part in these very massive arenas it actually like an intimate live performance.

Zimmer: We’re nonetheless making an attempt to make it fairly huge. On my final tour, I used to be making an attempt to achieve folks within the again seat and again rows. This isn’t a cocktail party. That’s my perspective to stagecraft. However actually the present is about stripping away what you count on. Orchestras have all the time been related. It’s simply folks couldn’t imagine they have been related. Having the world’s biggest guitarist and an orchestra from the Ukraine, it simply did one thing and the one distinction was that we didn’t have a conductor and Matt is a good conductor. So it’s not simply any individual’s again for a complete night.

Dunkley: I flip round typically.

What was your favourite second out of your final excursions, Hans and Matt?

Zimmer: I don’t assume many individuals might play ‘Lion King’ and go straight into ‘Bond.’ That was fairly cool however my favourite second was once we performed ‘Time’ from ‘Inception,’ which closed our reveals. After we get to that bit, it’s simply me taking part in the piano. This was notably particular in New York. Audiences within the Metropolis are fairly rambunctious and full of life, however whenever you get to the solo piano, they’re quiet like little church mice.

Dunkley: We do the identical in within the present that I do the place we end with ‘Time’ from ‘Inception.’ For us, it’s basically simply arms on the display screen taking part in the piano after which we now have our violinist simply taking part in these actually excessive harmonics and you may actually hear a pin drop in a 15,000 sq. toes enviornment and you then simply hear this wave of emotion come because it finishes.

Zimmer: It’s really known as a wave of speeding towards your vehicles.

Dunkley: Some do this after which they miss the encore.

Did you study something from the final enviornment tour you’ll be incorporating into this upcoming tour?

Dunkley: I do a number of speaking onstage, introducing the numbers and gamers. I’m engaged on giving these moments house and let an viewers present their appreciation. Typically they wish to stand, applaud and scream and shout and I’m going to permit them extra time to do this and let the emotion fill the room since ‘this is their evening,’ ‘not my evening.’

Zimmer: I by no means put together what I’m going to say. Simply one thing occurs. Then, once I’m waffling away, ultimately any individual from the band comes as much as us and says ‘should we play another song?’ I’m extra chaotic and I like going and seeing Matt. Not as a result of it’s much less chaotic, however as a result of his present has a number of coronary heart.

Why are you sitting this spherical out, Hans?

Zimmer: I’m touring Australia and Asia after which I’m working actually exhausting at constructing one other tour. Plus, I’ve a day job. I simply completed recording the rating for the film ‘F1.’

How do you are feeling in regards to the rating for “F1?” The place does it match inside your canon?

Zimmer: It’s surprisingly totally different. That is the third racecar film I did after ‘Days of Thunder’ and ‘Rush.’ I feel I acquired away with some issues in ‘F1’ that I by no means would have gotten away with all these years in the past. I hope folks assume it’s authentic and prefer it.

Zimmer: Apart from ‘F1,’ do you will have any new initiatives within the work that you just’re work that you just’re enthusiastic about?

Zimmer: Denis Villeneuve and I’ve began on “Dune Three” aka “Dune Messiah.”

He’s very excited, which implies I’m very excited. We’re these two teenage boys who learn it once we have been youngsters and it takes us again to being youngsters however with the one benefit that we’ve accomplished a number of motion pictures, so we we all know tips on how to get to the end line.

Will there be the identical musicians from the final U.S. tour on the autumn 2025 run?

Dunkley: We have now two totally different casts. They’re equally wonderful musicians.

Zimmer: And we’re extremely worldwide. I’d similar to to say that our orchestra is from Ukraine, and that really actually does imply one thing as a result of we acquired them out actually because the warfare began. Then, it grew to become very difficult. It nonetheless could be very difficult. You’d assume that the Germans can be very, very bureaucratic and really, very tough however they only stated ‘whatever you need, we’ll assist.’ We simply favored that they have been an awesome classical orchestra that didn’t look down on my rock and roll tendencies.

Dunkley: They actually embrace it. You watch a few of the cellists they usually’re going loopy.

This time round there will likely be clips accompanying the visuals, proper?

Dunkley: Sure, however they’re fairly clever. We solely use quick clips from motion pictures as a result of in any other case it’s simply folks sitting there and watching the display screen. More often than not the graphics are very summary and exquisite.

Zimmer: You might have an incredible designer.

Dunkley: He has these stunning summary shapes and dwell cameras which can be via filters however the music is entrance and middle. The graphics simply recommend a temper.

I had an fascinating expertise at your present in that it’s a symphony the place you may hear a pin drop for parts of it after which at occasions it’s additionally a rock present. What do you guys assume viewers members must be doing at this subsequent spherical of reveals? Are we sitting? Jamming out? Would you like slightly little bit of each?

Dunkley: No matter audiences wish to do, they will do. It’s for them. if we don’t have them, it’s only a rehearsal. So it’s what they wish to do. In the event that they wish to stand up and bop round, that’s incredible. We’re not going to cease them however, very often, individuals are simply sitting there and once we put the lights on within the enviornment you simply see tears operating down faces. All people has a kind of totally different expertise. We don’t wish to prescribe that. We wish them to return and have a good time. That’s why we’re doing it.

Was placing on a three-hour present on the final tour, each single evening of the run a grueling expertise or enjoyable?

Zimmer: I used to be having a blast. The factor is, as quickly as you get offstage, you simply wither and collapse. It’s like, simply get me to mattress. All that stuff about rock and rollers is that we’re having an awesome social gathering afterwards and it’s like all people is doing loopy issues till 4:00 within the morning. No one is doing that. They’re all working actually exhausting. Both we get on the bus and we journey all via the evening, then are woken up at 5 or 6 within the morning and now we now have to get off the bus into the lodge. I don’t thoughts it as a result of I don’t notice it. I can do it as a sleepwalk.

Dunkley: You’re form of like in a state of everlasting jet lag.

Zimmer: They put the identify of the city I’m in proper in entrance of my toes onstage. Typically I get it unsuitable, although. I did say ‘hello, Oslo!’ in Stockholm. They forgave me.

Dunkley: Our complete focus is the night. That three hours. You give a lot that you just haven’t acquired any power to do the rest.

Which rating of yours do you return to and take heed to probably the most?

Zimmer: I don’t as a result of do you actually wish to sit there and take heed to your errors? All the pieces could possibly be just a bit bit higher. If I’d solely accomplished that, if I solely knew that then.

Pablo Casals, the cellist, was requested when he was 90 why he was nonetheless working towards on daily basis, and he stated, ‘because I think I’m starting to see some enchancment. I didn’t know that that might be my motto, however that’s kind of my motto.

How do you intend on filling Hans’ footwear, Matt?

Dunkley: These are unfillable footwear to fill. My job is to current Hans’ music as finest as I presumably can with my skills as a conductor and to get probably the most out of my ensemble made up of a wonderful orchestra and soloists and singers. All the pieces I’m doing is respecting his music. That’s my job however they’re footwear that can not be stuffed.

Zimmer: I disagree. He’s an excellent musician. And he’s humorous. On the finish of the day, you bought to have amusing and also you’ve acquired to recollect to play music. It’s taking part in, proper? So that you’ve acquired the correct man right here. I didn’t seize Mr. Distress luggage to enter this tour.

Earlier than I allow you to go, I wished to inform you that — similar to Matt — “Interstellar” is my favourite rating of yours, Hans.

Zimmer: Each service ask me ‘what’s my favourite rating?’ and I all the time say I haven’t written it but, which is kind of the reality. Nonetheless, ought to I really go in my previous, I’m with you guys. It’s in all probability ‘Interstellar.’

Cinematic orchestral reveals in 2025

Want much more movie-like dwell music in your life?

If that’s the case, listed here are simply 5 enormous artists that could be headed to a venue close to you these subsequent few months.

• John Williams

• Joe Hisaishi

• “Twilight” in live performance

• “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” in live performance

• “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in live performance

It must also be famous that ‘The Music of Hans Zimmer Tour’ is operating from Might via November.

Who else is on the street? Check out our checklist of all the largest artists on tour in 2025 to search out the present for you.

This text was written by Matt Levy, New York Submit dwell occasions reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the newest tour bulletins out of your favourite musical artists and comedians, in addition to Broadway openings, sporting occasions and extra dwell reveals – and finds nice ticket costs on-line. Since he began his tenure on the Submit in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen live performance and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to call a number of. Please word that offers can expire, and all costs are topic to alter