THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at His Majesty’s Theatre in London

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is celebrating its landmark 40th Anniversary with a special Gala Performance on Friday 9 October 2026 at its original London home, His Majesty’s Theatre. Alumni artists from across the show’s four decades will join the current company on stage for a special curtain call after the performance.

A limited number of tickets for the Gala Performance go on sale in late September, with more details to follow. To be the first to hear when booking opens, sign up to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Box Five Club here.

All proceeds from the Gala will be matched by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Mackintosh Foundation, funding a new Phantom 40th Scholarship Programme, supporting professional training for talented young performers at leading UK arts schools, with applications opening for the 2027–28 academic year.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is widely considered one of the world’s most beautiful and spectacular musicals. Since 1986, it has played to over 160 million people in 217 cities across 52 territories, in 23 languages, and has recently opened in a spectacular new production in America to ecstatic reactions from audiences and critics alike.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s romantic, haunting and soaring score includes The Music of the Night, All I Ask of You, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Masquerade and the iconic title song.

THE STORY

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA tells the haunting story of Christine Daaé, a young soprano whose extraordinary voice enchants a mysterious masked figure known as The Phantom. Drawn to her talent, The Phantom becomes her mentor from the shadows and falls deeply in love. But when Christine is reunited with her childhood sweetheart Raoul, now the young patron of the Opera House, a dangerous love triangle threatens to unravel them all.

AWARDS

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has won over 70 major awards worldwide. The original 1988 Broadway production was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won seven, including Best Musical. The original 1986 London production won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical and two Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. Its cast recording became the first in British musical history to enter the charts at Number One.