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Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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Art & design

Noah Davis

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Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

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Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Actor Stephen Rea sits in front of a tape machine.
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Theatre & dance

Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape

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Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.

Seong-Jin Cho standing next to a piano
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Classical music

Seong-Jin Cho: A Ravel-athon

A sold-out hall greeted Seong-Jin Cho’s Barbican debut in 2023. His much-anticipated return navigates a scintillating all-Ravel programme, saluting the composer in his 150th anniversary year.

Maurice Ravel Sérénade grotesque
Menuet antique
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Jeux d'eau
Sonatine
Miroirs
Gaspard de la nuit
Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Prélude
À la manière de Borodine
À la manière de Chabrier
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Seong-Jin Cho
Mahan Esfahani at the harpsichord
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Classical music

Mahan Esfahani: Harpsichord recital

Splicing classic Baroque works with a reminder that the harpsichord is no mere museum piece, Mahan Esfahani has opened up inspiring new territories.

Hans Werner Henze Six Absences
Jean-Philippe Rameau Suite en mi-mineur
Luciano Berio Rounds
Johann Pachelbel Chaconne f-moll
Haïm Alexander Improvisation on a Persian Folksong
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Pièces de Clavecin:
Prélude
Allemande
Courante I
Courante II
Sarabande
Gigue
Canaries
Chaconne
Menuet
Mark Applebaum October 1582 for harpsichord and live electronics
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
A picture of a sea creature that glows brightly. The words 'I am in tune with my creative intuition' is written across the top.
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Take part Talks & events

Concrete Garden: May Day

Free

​​Come together and celebrate the vibrant springtime festival in our iconic conservatory at a day of talks and workshops.

Sir Simon Rattle conducting the LSO
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

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Janáček’s hilarious satire about art, lunar travel, nationalism – and sausages. 

Leoš Janáček The Excursions of Mr Brouček
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Peter Hoare Brouček
Aleš Briscein Mazal/Blankytný/Petřík
Lucy Crowe Málinka/Etherea/Kunka
Gyula Orendt Sakristán/Svatopluk/Lunobor/Domšík
Lukáš Zeman Würfl/Čaroskvoucí/Ratsherr
Doubravka Novotná Číšníček/Wunderkind/Student
Hanna Hipp Kedruta
Arttu Kataja Básník/Oblačný/Vacek
Stephan Rügamer Artist/Dohuslav/Vojta
Linard Vrielink Skladatel/Harfoboj/Miroslav
Tenebrae
The woodwind section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on stage
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Classical music

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Robert Ziegler leads you on a journey through space and time with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Manu Martin Lim Cosmic Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
George Gershwin (arr Schoenfeld/Rothman) I Got Rhythm Variations
Gustav Holst The Planets
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Ziegler conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
City of London Choir
London Voices
Gateway West by Jack Hobhouse
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Gort Scott

London-based architects Jay Gort and Fiona Scott discuss their diverse portfolio in the UK and beyond.

Joyce DiDonato in a black dress, leaning with her back against a wall
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Classical music

Handel: Jephtha with Il Pomo D’oro and Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres star in Handel’s Jephtha – the composer's valedictory oratorio. 

George Frideric Handel Jephtha
Il Pomo d'Oro
Francesco Corti conductor
Michael Spyres Jephtha
Joyce DiDonato Storge
Mélissa Petit Ipihis
Anna Piroli Angel
Cody Quattlebaum Zebul
Jasmin White Hamor
Il Pomo d'Oro Choir
Jess Gillam playing the saxophone in front of a pile of giant oranges
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Classical music

Her Ensemble: The Three Dancers

Three beautifully-conceived 21st century works inspired by the visual arts, culminating in a celebration of Balkan folk tunes herald the return of Ellie Consta’s pioneering Her Ensemble.

Caroline Shaw Thousandth Orange
Dobrinka Tabakova Insight
Elena Kats-Chernin The Three Dancers
Ezo Dem Sarici Balkan folk tunes
Her Ensemble
Laura Van Der Heijden cello
Jess Gillam saxophone
Junyan Chen piano
Double Bassist Strahinja Mitrović pictured in Barbican Hall, holding up the Gold Medal in box
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Classical music

The Gold Medal 2025

The final of Guildhall School's most prestigious music prize, offering the chance to enjoy songs and arias performed by three outstanding Guildhall vocalists in front of an esteemed panel of judges.

Black and white image of Mustafa
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Contemporary music

Mustafa

Dunya, the breathtaking debut album by Sudanese-Canadian artist Mustafa, means 'the world in all its flaws', and explores themes of devotion, trauma, and intimacy through genre-blending sound.

A group of dancers move around each other. They move at different levels creating one moving entity.
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Theatre & dance

Boy Blue: Hip Hop Matters

Join Boy Blue for an exciting and thought-provoking conversation on the future of the UK street dance scene, from where we are in 2025 to what the future holds. 

A group of hip hop dancers caught in motion. They lift one arm in the air and open their mouths.
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Theatre & dance

Generation Blue: A Night With Boy Blue

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Mixing exuberant hip hop dance displays, a joyful sense of community and the heart-thumping rhythms of an eclectic score, Boy Blue’s company showcase always culminates in uproarious applause.