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Install shot of Dirty Looks
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Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

A woman looks at a sculpture of a globe, the outlines of the countries lit in neon orange strip lights.
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Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum

Works by contemporary artist Mona Hatoum and 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are seen together for the first time in this ground-breaking exhibition, part of Encounters: Giacometti.

A person writing in a book
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Talks & events Take part

Writing Ecologies: 11 Jan

Deepen your connection with nature through this writing workshop in the midst of our Conservatory, guided by an established author. 

A women with her shadow
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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Perfect Blue

Master Animator Satoshi Kon's cult horror sees a celebrity's reality unravel in a pop fever dream.

A person stood on stage wearing yellow and black
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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.

Aaron Akugbo crouching while holding a trumpet
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Classical music

London Schools Symphony Orchestra

The Nigerian-Scottish trumpeter performs Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian’s showpiece mid-20th century trumpet concerto with its jaw-dropping moments in abundance.

Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

A person stood on stage wearing yellow and black
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
Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

A person stood on stage wearing yellow and black
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.

Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

A person stood on stage wearing yellow and black
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
Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

A person stood on stage wearing yellow and black
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
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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
Olivier Sallaird dresses a model in a wedding dr4ess
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Art & design Theatre & dance

Wedding Dresses Always End Up Single

Blurring the lines between fashion and literature, this intimate performance reinvents wedding dresses in poetic cycles, reflecting on memory, love and loss.

Install shot of Dirty Looks
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Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

Malvolio stands on stage in a layered black and yellow costume, a light shines behind him.
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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 stood on stage wearing yellow and black
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 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.

Install shot of Dirty Looks
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Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

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
Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

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.

A blurred picture of a classical ensemble on stage
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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