Credit: Photo via OregonSymphony/Twitter

Performances from games like “Diablo, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, and Assassins Creed, as well as a new arrangement for World of Warcraft” are all promised for this show borne from the mind of Jason Michael Paul, producer and creator of the first stateside “Final Fantasy” concerts, and “The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary” concerts.

A 70-piece orchestra and choir bring it to live while visuals from the games play in the background. Leave that Apple Vision Pro at home, people.

Tickets for Heroes: A Video Game Symphony happening Saturday, May 11 inside David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa are still available and start at $39.50.

Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

Follow us: Google News | NewsBreak | Reddit | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

This article appears in May 2-8, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...