Eight Songs for a Mad King is a monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow, based on words of George III.

Although most of the techniques are notated quite specifically, there are passages of guided improvisation, most obviously in the wind instruments at the end of the 5th song, when they are instructed to "use given pitches as centres around which groups — small, slow phrases, are built.

[4] Welsh baritone Kelvin Thomas sang the role at Munich's Kammerspiele Schauspielhaus in 2011, in a 2012 performance with Psappha, available to watch online,[5] and in a production by Music Theatre Wales in 2013.

In 2024, with members of the Orchestre de Paris, they performed Eight Songs in a special concert in the Salle Daru of the Louvre Museum, in front of The Coronation of Napoleon.

Díapason Magazine said of the performance, "The setting is grandiose; the dizzying embodiment, both vocal and physical, by Thomas Florio leaves the audience speechless, and a violin in pieces (it’s planned, but when it happens…).