What’s on

Fri 25 Oct 2024, 19:30

A smash-hit Broadway play turned movie, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly metamorphoses into music theatre as the UK premiere of Huang Ruo’s operatic reworking takes wing.

Wed 30 Oct 2024, 18:30

Kick-start your evening with a Half Six Fix concert. One piece in a 60-minute concert, introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action. 

Thu 31 Oct 2024, 19:00

Composers being playful: early Beethoven's wit and jokes pair with a cat-and-mouse chase around the orchestra from Ondřej Adámek. 

Fri 1 Nov 2024, 19:30

Expect epic visions and piano playing that’s out of this world when Kirill Gerstein and Sakari Oramo champion Ferruccio Busoni’s stupendous Piano Concerto, as well as music by Grazyna Bacewicz. 

Sat 2 Nov 2024, 14:00

Discover three new chamber concertos by composers whose careers are just taking off. 

Sat 2 Nov 2024, 19:30

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma reunites with long-time duo partner Kathryn Stott in two masterly sonatas and sublimely unruffled Arvo Pärt.

Sun 3 Nov 2024, 19:00

Experience the unrestrained power of American gospel music, with the symphonic sound of the LSO and a chorus of voices from across the London community, curated and conducted by André J Thomas.

Mon 4 –Mon 11 Nov 2024

150 years after its first performance in Vienna, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus arrives at Silk Street Theatre this Autumn.

Thu 7 Nov 2024, 19:00

A spotlight on Romanticism with three beautifully contrasting pieces: Liszt in fine form, late Mendelssohn and ‘Great’ Schubert.

Fri 8 Nov 2024, 19:30

Glowing colours and grand passions: Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join violinist Ilya Gringolts in Szymanowski’s gorgeous concerto – plus music by Wagner, Strauss and Dora Pejačević.

Sun 10 Nov 2024, 19:00

Tales of ancient spirits and savage dreams from Sibelius and Stravinsky, alongside the fluid, lyrical melodies of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto.

Thu 14 Nov 2024, 19:30

Musical metamorphoses: Mozart, Haydn and their colleagues come together as AAM celebrates a friendship that transformed music for ever.

Tue 19 Nov 2024, 19:30

Conducted by Rafael Payare, the Montréal orchestra’s Barbican concert launches a European tour. Preceding symphonic Berlioz, Javier Perianes is the soloist in Beethoven’s playful Piano Concerto No 1. 

Wed 20 Nov 2024, 19:30

Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company Alpesh Chauhan leads Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in an out-of-this-world programme.

Thu 21 Nov 2024, 19:30

The LSO is joined by the Mercury Prize-nominated ensemble seed., led by saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, for an evening of new music and collaboration.