Royal Albert Hall events in British culture, each year it hosts more than 390 shows in the main auditorium, including classical, rock and pop concerts, ballet, opera, film screenings with live orchestra, sports, award ceremonies, school and community events, charity performances and banquets. A further 400 events are held each year in the non-auditorium spaces. The Hall was originally supposed to have been called the "Central Hall of Arts and Sciences", but the name was changed to the "Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences" by Queen Victoria upon laying the Hall's foundation stone in 1867, in memory of her husband, Prince Albert,
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