Lady Gaga’s ‘MAYHEM Requiem’ Concert Film: How to Watch

Lady Gaga is closing the book on her Mayhem era in the most dramatic way possible — and she’s inviting everyone to watch.

Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem premieres this Thursday, May 14, at 8 p.m. PT (midnight ET heading into May 15) on Apple Music. The livestream premiere is free — no subscription needed — and will simultaneously screen at 15 AMC theaters across the country for one night only. After that, the full performance and a Spatial Audio live album will live on demand exclusively for Apple Music subscribers.

What Is MAYHEM Requiem, Exactly?

This isn’t a Mayhem Ball recap. The concert film is being billed as “the final chapter of her Mayhem era” — a separate, one-off event that Gaga staged on January 14 at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre, a venue that holds just under 2,000 people (the actual audience that night was around 2,300 fans, randomly selected from a lottery through her mailing list). It was also phone-free, which means what happens in this film is the only real record of what went down that night.

The concept picks up where the Mayhem Ball left off — literally. The elaborate opera house set Gaga built for her arena tour appears here reduced to rubble: cracked columns, scattered ruins, the whole gothic wreckage. Gaga herself plays “the phantom of her own gothic opera,” spending much of the intimate evening at the piano or synths, reworking the album’s tracklist into something entirely reimagined. Think Phantom of the Opera energy, but make it pop-art chaos.

Directed and produced by Morningview, the film features reinterpreted versions of “Abracadabra,” “Disease,” “Die With a Smile” and the full Mayhem album — which, for context, won Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards earlier this year.

The full setlist, courtesy of fans who were there that January night:

1. Disease
2. Abracadabra
3. Garden of Eden
4. Perfect Celebrity
5. Vanish Into You
6. Killah
7. Zombieboy
8. LoveDrug
9. How Bad Do U Want Me
10. Don’t Call Tonight
11. Shadow of a Man
12. The Beast
13. Blade of Grass
14. Die With a Smile
15. Can’t Stop the High (Encore)

How to Watch — and Where to See It in Theaters

Streaming is the easiest path. Open the Apple Music app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV 4K and head to the Apple Music Live section. The premiere on May 14 at 8 p.m. PT is free to watch live. After that, you’ll need a subscription for on-demand access.

If you want the theater experience, register here for free to grab a spot at one of the 15 AMC locations. Cities include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Nashville, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, DC. Screenings are one night only and run simultaneously with the Apple Music premiere.

There’s also a fun little bonus for Shazam users: identify songs from the film on the app and you can unlock themed wallpapers and Apple Watch faces. A special message will appear when a track is recognized — tap it to save the page and get notified when content drops.

The End of a Record-Breaking Era

Gaga teased the MAYHEM Requiem film during the final night of the Mayhem Ball tour — a nice full-circle moment for the Little Monsters who were there. The tour wrapped in New York in April after hitting five continents, and the numbers it left behind are staggering: $419.5 million grossed, just under two million tickets sold, according to Billboard Boxscore. That makes the Mayhem Ball the highest-grossing tour of Gaga’s career and one of the ten highest-grossing pop tours ever.

MAYHEM Requiem is the coda to all of it — an intimate, stripped-and-reimagined farewell to an album that clearly meant everything to her. Thursday night, the ruins of that opera house come to everyone.