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Architecture on Stage: Graham Stevens

Artist and architectural designer Graham Stevens presents his pioneering work in the development of pneumatic structures.

Lisa Batiashvili holding her violin and wearing a black dress standing in front of a black background.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Dreams and fantasies from enigmatic Szymanowski to Berlioz’s most rock’n’roll work, the Symphonie fantastique. 

Hector Berlioz Overture: Le corsaire
Karol Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 1
Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
A black and white photograph of a man sitting in a rubber tree, wearing white
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Cinema

Fashion in Film Festival: Artist Films - Colonial Threads

Three contemporary artist films explore how textiles and dress are directly implicated in histories of land, colonialism, migration and trade.

A photo of Mark Elder with pink circular swirls around him
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra: Elder conducts Mahler

Goodnight, Vienna: Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, as the BBC Symphony Orchestra brings its season to an unforgettable close. 

Franz Schreker Chamber Symphony
Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
David Butt Philip tenor
Nikki Iles at piano
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Contemporary music

Guildhall Jazz Orchestra with Nikki Iles

Join us for a captivating evening as the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra welcomes back renowned pianist and composer Nikki Iles, one of the UK’s most influential jazz artists, as guest director.

Animated drawing of a person wearing a yellow top and purple trousers floating underwater holding a shell
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Cinema

Fashion in Film Festival: Shorts - Nature's Resources

Family Film Club is delighted to welcome the Fashion in Film Festival for their first ever family screening at the Barbican! 

An ensemble stand underneath a large sloping roof
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Theatre & dance

Fiddler on the Roof

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A theatrical triumph, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s completely sold-out electrifying Fiddler On The Roof transfers to London this summer in what is set to be the theatre event of 2025.

Sir Antonio Pappano landscape pose
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Two portraits from a magician of orchestral colour, Richard Strauss – plus a young Mozart dances on the violin 

Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No 5
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
A profile shot of Cassie Kinoshi holding her saxophone in front of a concrete wall
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Classical music

Cassie Kinoshi x Ensemble Intercontemporain

Spearheaded by France’s flagship contemporary music group, the new, the nearly new, and a 20th century classic are stitched into a programme that explores slavery and the Caribbean experience. 

Hannah Kendall shouting forever into the receiver
Cassie Kinoshi New work
Pierre Boulez Sur Incises
Ensemble intercontemporain
Nicolò Umberto Foron conductor
NikNak turntables
Tyrone Isaac-Stuart choreographer
Julien Creuzet visuals
Nathan England-Jones Electronics technical support
Two people smile at the camera, waring outdoor clothing in a black and white photograph
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Cinema

Fashion in Film Festival: The Magino Village Story

An unusual insight into sericulture that celebrates the animal, botanical, earthy and craft-based origins of silk.  

The Carducci Quartet standing in a line in front of an old, dilapidated building, their instruments in cases on the floor beside them.
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Classical music

Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 5

Our Shostakovich cycle began with the Quartet No 1, and ends, inevitably, with No 15, staring death resolutely in the face, a work heart-stopping in its searing intensity.

Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 10
Quartet No 7
Quartet No 15
Carducci Quartet
Kyan Quartet
three women standing together with a strip of light across their faces
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Contemporary music

I’m With Her

Three GRAMMY Award-winning songwriters come together as I'm With Her for an intimate performance, with new music from their forthcoming album Wild and Clear and Blue.

A woman dressed as a butterfly, blue, green, yellow, bends backwards towards the camera
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Cinema

Fashion in Film Festival: Into the Garden of Chimerical...

A programme of archival gems that explore the interesting and sometimes unusual connections between women, flowers, and insects, from 20th Century filmmakers. 

Orlando artwork - torso of person wearing red shirt against background of seascape
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Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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Neil Bartlett's sparkling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking fantasy finds powerful contemporary relevance in the novelist’s vision of equal rights to love for bodies of every kind.

Photo of electronic musicians Actress and Suzanne Ciani
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Contemporary music

Actress x Suzanne Ciani present Concrète Waves

A groundbreaking live music collaboration between two titans of avant-garde electronic music, Actress and Suzanne Ciani.