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Dirty Looks

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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.

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Dirty Looks

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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.

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
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Dirty Looks

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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.

An image of Guy Johnston surrounded by a red circle against a red backdrop
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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
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Dirty Looks

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Theatre & dance

RSC: Twelfth Night Unwrapped

Join members of the company and creative team to unwrap the play and hear more about some of the skills that go into making a Royal Shakespeare Company production. 

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.

An Evening with Damon Hill in conversation with Tom Clarkson
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Talks & events

An Evening with Damon Hill in conversation with Tom Clarkson

Join the 1996 Formula 1 Champion Damon Hill, one of sport’s most respected figures, remembered for his thrilling battles with Michael Schumacher and for partnering the late Ayrton Senna at Williams.

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Dirty Looks

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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
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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
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Dirty Looks

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Hamlet
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Cinema

NT Live: Hamlet

This fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy stars Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) as the brooding Prince of Denmark.

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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
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Art & design

Dirty Looks

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Unearth
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Classical music

Julia Wolfe: unEarth

US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp.

Works to include Julia Wolfe's unEarth
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Else Torp soprano
BBC Singers
Finchley Children's Music Group
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
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Contemporary music

Guy Manoukian: Live in London

Experience a spellbinding evening of crossover Arabesque melodies fused with contemporary arrangements, performed by one of today's most acclaimed international composers and pianists.

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Writing Ecologies: 25 Jan

Surrounded by the greenery of our Conservatory, join an established author for a workshop that invites you to explore how writing can illuminate our connection to the natural world.

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
-Interval-
Franz Schubert Sonatina G minor D 408
Johannes Brahms Sonata No 3 in D minor
Maxim Vengerov violin
Polina Osetinskaya piano
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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