Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941. It has a capacity of up to 5,272 seats. The Hall is a registered charity held in trust for the nation and receives no public or government funding. Since its opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage and it has become one of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings. The location of some of the most notable
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Adele album) artist, and has sold more than three million copies worldwide. The live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" taken from "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards. "Live at The Royal Albert Hall" was well received by music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 5 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". "The Boston Globe" labeled the release "Our DVD pick" and said, "the performances are routinely