Björk announces livestream of ‘Cornucopia’ concert film this week

Björk has announced that a livestream of her new concert film Cornucopia will debut on Apple TV+ later this week.

An hour-long version of the full-length film will air on the streaming service on Friday (January 24) at 7pm PT, or 3am on Saturday morning in the UK. The singer has also confirmed that the feature length version of the film will be coming to theatres later in the year.

Ahead of the stream, the singer will also sit down for a rare interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music on Thursday (January 23) at 10am PT / 6pm UK time.

“This has been a long journey with hundreds of people helping out,” she wrote on X/Twitter on Wednesday (January 22). “I am so beyond enormously grateful to every single one of them.”

The Cornucopia concert tour ran from May 2019 to December 2023, taking in North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia for a total of 45 shows. Based on Björk’s studio albums ‘Utopia’ (2017) and later incorporating ‘Fossora’ (2022), it was a music and theatre hybrid, featuring direction from the acclaimed Argentine filmmaker Lucretia Martel.

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

i am so thrilled to share an hour excerpt of the Cornucopia concert film here with you online .
the full version will be played later in theatres .
this has… pic.twitter.com/jAfJnI5hFs

— björk (@bjork) January 22, 2025

“I feel the modern concert film is a matriarchally friendly construct, welcomed in the current climate,” Björk added. “Where female musicians can share their worlds uncorrupted, in cornucopia, i was joined by musical director and multi-instrumentalist Bergur þórisson, percussionist Manu Delago, flute septet Viibra, harpist Katie Buckley and the Hamrahlid choir.”

Expanding on the inception of the show, she continued: “I was deeply inspired by the idea of a fully-immersive experience spreading ‘Utopia’ and ‘Fossora’ into fully surround speakers. My intention was to bring what we had created for 21st-century VR into a 19th-century theatre – taking it from the headset to the stage.”

“Throughout this tale, there is a subplot woven in: a second story of an avatar—a modern marionette who alchemically mutates, from puppet to puppet, from the injury of a heart wound to a fully healed state.”

NME attended the Cornucopia show when it arrived in London in November 2019, noting in a four-star review: “We in turn should be thankful for an artist wild enough to take a show this audacious to a venue in which she’ll be followed, over the next two nights, by the more straightforwardly people-pleasing performances of McFly and Little Mix. This is a time where we all need to push it, to find new ways of being: like the lady herself sings in the show’s penultimate track: “Imagine a future and be in it.”

NME also caught up with Björk in 2022, where she opened up about how she thinks the world is shaping up in the 2020s. “I thought we’d be doing better with environmental things,” she said. “We reacted so strongly to the COVID pandemic; all governments worked and we invented the fucking vaccine in 10 months or something. It was a miracle for seven billion people. I would hope we would react as strongly to the environment.”

“Gen Z-ers are really radical, and I’m relieved that the environment is a priority for them – I’m up for it!” she enthuses. “When I read the news, most of it won’t matter in 20 years. The only thing that really matters is how we deal with the environment.”

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