Apple Music Live: MAYHEM Requiem

When Lady Gaga set off on an international tour in support of <i>MAYHEM</i>, her sixth studio album, she travelled the globe with her own opera house in tow. Each night, the columns and ornate finishes of this surreal theatre’s facade served as the backdrop for her journey into the madness of <i>MAYHEM</i>. But now the opera house has been reduced to rubble—and it’s time to pay our respects and prepare for <i>MAYHEM</i>’s final act. For Apple Music Live, Gaga presents MAYHEM Requiem, a celebration and musical reimagining of <i>MAYHEM</i>. The phantom of her own gothic opera, she spends most of the intimate evening at The Wiltern in Los Angeles at the piano or synths, where she helms reimagined arrangements of “Abracadabra”, “Disease” and the rest of <i>MAYHEM</i>’s tracklist among the cracked columns and scattered ruins of the opera house. From the heavy industrial clashes of “Killah” to an electro-funk rework of her Bruno Mars duet “Die with a Smile”, MAYHEM Requiem is both a perfect companion to the original album and a singular experience: You’ll never hear the songs of <i>MAYHEM</i> the same way, but you <i>can</i> hear them now in Spatial Audio.