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Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
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Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
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Classical music

The National Youth Orchestra

Join us as The National Youth Orchestra takes to the stage for a massive orchestral experience, alongside conductor Alexandre Bloch and cellist Inbal Segev.

Claude Debussy Ibéria
Karim Al-Zand City Scenes
Anna Clyne DANCE for cello and orchestra
Maurice Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole
The National Youth Orchestra
Alexandre Bloch conductor
Inbal Segev cello
A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Violinist performs at LSO St Luke's under a drape with purple projections on it
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Classical music Contemporary music

Jerwood Composer+ Showcase

One-of-a-kind performances curated and developed by early-career composers as part of LSO Jerwood Composer+.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sir Simon Rattle standing on the podium on the Barbican stage, facing the audience and smiling, with the London Symphony Orchestra standing behind him
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

A 300-year-old woman confronts mortality, identity and lost love in this concert performance of Janáček’s intense operatic drama.

Leoš Janáček The Makropulos Affair (concert performance)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Marlis Petersen Emilia Marty
Aleš Briscein Albert Gregor
Jan Martiník Dr Kolenatý
Peter Hoare Vitek
Svatopluk Sem Baron Jaroslav Prus
A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sir Simon Rattle standing on the podium on the Barbican stage, facing the audience and smiling, with the London Symphony Orchestra standing behind him
Event
Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

A 300-year-old woman confronts mortality, identity and lost love in this concert performance of Janáček’s intense operatic drama.

Leoš Janáček The Makropulos Affair (concert performance)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Marlis Petersen Emilia Marty
Aleš Briscein Albert Gregor
Jan Martiník Dr Kolenatý
Peter Hoare Vitek
Svatopluk Sem Baron Jaroslav Prus
A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

An image of Guy Johnston surrounded by a red circle against a red backdrop
Event
Classical music

Clemens Schuldt conducts Strauss and Phibbs

Clemens Schuldt and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Shakespearean classics, Strauss at his most sumptuous, and a new British concerto for cellist Guy Johnston.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Fantasy-Overture, 'Hamlet'
Joseph Phibbs Cello Concerto
Mel Bonis Ophélie
Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt conductor
Guy Johnston cello
A person with a yellow collar around their neck makes a love heart symbol with their hands.
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night

Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

RBO Live La Traviata
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Cinema

RBO Live: La Traviata

Richard Eyre’s beautiful production provides the perfect setting for Verdi's opera about a courtesan who sacrifices all for love.

Sir Simon Rattle with London Symphony Orchestra
Event
Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

Two showcases of Bartók’s unbridled passion for Hungarian folk music, plus de Falla’s sun-drenched tale of love and deception. 

Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No 2
Béla Bartók Five Hungarian Folksongs for Voice and Orchestra (1933)
Manuel de Falla The Three Cornered Hat – Ballet
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Rinat Shaham mezzo-soprano
A blurred picture of a classical ensemble on stage
Event
Classical music

Riot Ensemble: Too Much is Never Enough

Step into a kaleidoscopic world of sound as one of the UK’s leading new-music ensembles, Riot Ensemble, brings an electrifying programme by a new generation of creatives.

Corie Rose Soumah Limpidités IV
Anna Meredith Brisk Widow
Eden Lonsdale Tränen und Ozean
Alex Paxton Shrimp BIT Babyface
Riot Ensemble
Unearth
Event
Classical music

Julia Wolfe: unEarth

US composer Julia Wolfe’s major new work unEarth receives its UK premiere at the Barbican, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, National Youth Voices, and Danish soprano Else Torp.

Julia Wolfe unEarth
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Else Torp soprano
BBC Singers
National Youth Choir
Julia Wolfe composer
Anne Kauffman director
Lucy Mackinnon projection designer
Ben Stanton lighting designer
Kenny Savelson executive producer
Asher Lloyd Ehrenberg associate director
Produced by Bang on a Can
Imogen Cooper
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck

Subtle elegance and introspection infuse Mozart’s late piano concerto, while Brahms brings hope and solace in times of loss. 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No 27
Johannes Brahms German Requiem
London Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck conductor
Imogen Cooper piano
Chen Reiss soprano
Gerald Finley bass
London Symphony Chorus
Stevens and Pound
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Classical music

Britten Sinfonia/Stevens & Pound: Earth and other planets

An exhilarating re-imagining of Holst's The Planets for folk duo and orchestra, interspersed by text written and narrated by acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane.  

Maurice Ravel orch. Percy Grainger La Vallée des cloches
Benjamin Britten English Folksong Suite: A Time There Was
Percy Grainger Lincolnshire Posy
Gustav Holst / Stevens & Pound The Silent Planet (Mars; Venus; Jupiter; Mercury; Earth)
Stevens & Pound folk duo (melodeon/harmonica and percussion)
Robert Macfarlane narrator
Britten Sinfonia
Maxim Vengerov
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Classical music

Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya in Recital

The world-renowned duo of violinist Maxim Vengerov and pianist Polina Osetinskaya take to the Barbican stage for an evening that sets the gold standard for contemporary duet performance.

Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Sonata
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Franz Schubert Sonatina G minor D 408
Johannes Brahms Sonata No 3 in D minor
Maxim Vengerov violin
Polina Osetinskaya piano
Patricia Kopatchinskaja on stage at the Barbican Hall with her hand on her chest smiling
Event
Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Treviño

Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja revels in a modernist masterwork, before Rachmaninoff’s tempestuous Symphony No 2, full of Romantic ardour. 

Olivier Messiaen Hymne
Márton Illés ‘Vont-tér’ for Violin and Orchestra
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Treviño conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
An image of Elizabeth Bass surrounded by a green circle against a green background
Event
Classical music

Oramo conducts Beethoven's Fourth Symphony

Music that glitters, sings and dances for joy, as Sakari Oramo pairs two newly minted classics with Beethoven’s brightest symphony.

Cecilia Damström ICE
Detlev Glanert Harp Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Elizabeth Bass harp
Song of the Sea
Event
Classical music

Sea Beneath the Skin / Song of the Earth

Reflecting on the powerful words of the late Kiribati poetess and activist Teresia Teaiwa, Lemi Ponifasio's Sea Beneath the Skin creates a poignant performance featuring the Theatre of Kiribati.

The Theatre of Kiribati
Britten Sinfonia
Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano
Lemi Ponifasio director
Nuno Coelho conductor
Pavel Cernok tenor
photo of Lucinda Williams
Event
Contemporary music

Lucinda Williams

Three-time GRAMMY award-winner, Lucinda Williams has been carving her own path for more than three decades now. Williams has been imbued with a ‘culturally rich, economically poor’ worldview.  

TBC
Lucinda Williams