Björk to Premiere Live Broadcast of ‘Cornucopia’ Concert Film This Week

Björk Announces Live Broadcast

Björk has revealed that she will be broadcasting her new concert film live. Cornucopia premieres on Apple TV+ later this week.

Broadcast Details

The hour-long feature will be available on the streaming platform this Friday (January 24) at 7pm PT, or 3am Saturday in the UK. The artist also stated that a full-length version of the film will be released in theaters later this year.

In an exciting lead-up to the broadcast, Björk will participate in a rare interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music on Thursday (January 23) at 10am PT/6pm UK time.

“It's been a long journey with hundreds of people helping us along the way,” she shared on X/Twitter on Wednesday (Jan. 22). “I am incredibly grateful to each and every one of them.”

About the Concert Tour

Cornucopia was a concert tour that ran from May 2019 to December 2023, comprising 45 shows across North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia. The show is inspired by Björk’s studio albums Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2022), featuring a blend of music and theater directed by the acclaimed Argentine director Lucrecia Martel.

Horn of Plenty on Apple Music @applemusic and AppleTV+ @AppleTV !! This Friday, January 24th at 7:00 pm PT. #AppleMusicLive

I'm so excited to share with you online an hour-long excerpt from the concert film “Cornucopia.”
The full version will be shown in cinemas later.
it has… pic.twitter.com/jAfJnI5hFs

— Bjork (@bjork) January 22, 2025

“I believe the modern concert film is a matriarchy-friendly construct that is welcome in the current climate,” Björk added. “Where female musicians can share their world unspoiled, in a cornucopia, I am joined by music director and multi-instrumentalist Bergur Thorisson, percussionist Manu Delago, flute septet Viibra, harpist Katie Buckley and the Hamrahlid choir.”

Speaking about the show’s inception, she elaborated: “I was deeply inspired by the notion of total immersion, streaming Utopia and Fossora through full surround sound speakers. My goal was to translate what we crafted for 21st-century virtual reality into 19th-century theater, transferring it from headset to stage.”

“Woven into this story is a subplot: a secondary narrative of an avatar—a modern puppet that transitions alchemically from one form to another, from injury to a state of complete healing.”

NME reviewed the Cornucopia show during its London stop in November 2019, giving it a four-star rating and commenting: “We, in turn, must thank an artist daring enough to take this bold show to a place where she will be viewed for the next two nights amid more overtly enjoyable performances from McFly and Little Mix. This is a time when we all need to move forward, discovering new ways to exist: as she sings in the penultimate track of the show: ‘Imagine the future and be in it.’”

NME also had a conversation with Björk in 2022, where she shared her hopes for the future of the world in the 2020s. “I thought we would handle the environment better,” she remarked. “We reacted so quickly to the COVID pandemic; all the governments worked together and we created the vaccine in about 10 months. It was a miracle for seven billion people. I hope we will respond to environmental challenges with the same urgency.”

“Gen Z is truly radical and I’m thrilled that prioritizing the environment is part of their agenda – I fully support it!” she expressed enthusiastically. “When I read the news, most of it won’t matter in 20 years. The only thing that genuinely matters is how we treat our environment.”