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Classical music

A Christmas Odyssey

Following the success of their festive 'Live from London' collab in 2024, Adrian Scarborough (History Boys, Gavin and Stacey) joins the BBC Singers on a Christmas journey of carols & literature.

Young children run around a space interacting with large, colourful objects in a sensory show.
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Theatre & dance

Engruna Teatre: Univers

Live music, movement and poetic storytelling combine in this fun, sensory show that gives 0–2-year-olds the space to explore in magical and unexpected ways. 

Blondie in Camera 1978
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Blondie in Camera 1978

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Mona Hatoum's sculpture Orbital - a spherical structure, resembling a globe, made from steel reinforcement bars and clumps of rough concrete
Event
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 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.

Arcadi Volodos sitting at the piano
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Classical music

Arcadi Volodos in Recital

The Russian born master pianist Arcadi Volodos returns to the Barbican for a journey to the heart of the Romantic spirit.

Franz Schubert Sonata in A major D959
Robert Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op 6
Franz Liszt arr. Volodos Hungarian Rhapsody No 13 in A minor, S. 244/13
Arcadi Volodos piano
Young children run around a space interacting with large, colourful objects in a sensory show.
Event
Theatre & dance

Engruna Teatre: Univers

Live music, movement and poetic storytelling combine in this fun, sensory show that gives 0–2-year-olds the space to explore in magical and unexpected ways. 

Blondie in Camera 1978
Event

Blondie in Camera 1978

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Mona Hatoum's sculpture Orbital - a spherical structure, resembling a globe, made from steel reinforcement bars and clumps of rough concrete
Event
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 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 scene froom Andrea Chenier, showing a group of French revolutionaries on the steps of a grand building
Event
Cinema

MET Opera Live: Andrea Chénier

Giordano's passionate tragedy set against the backdrop of the violence and intrigue of the French Revolution.

Mona Hatoum's sculpture Orbital - a spherical structure, resembling a globe, made from steel reinforcement bars and clumps of rough concrete
Event
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.

Ballet dancers dressed as snowflakes dance with their arms raised, snow falling around them
Event
Cinema

RBO Live: The Nutcracker

The enchanting ballet features Tchaikovsky's most familiar melodies and is bought to life with exquisite designs. 

Blondie in Camera 1978
Event

Blondie in Camera 1978

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

A painting of a young woman and donkey
Event
Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Handel's Messiah

Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music perform Handel’s Messiah – a Christmas tradition that they’ve made their own.

George Frederic Handel Messiah
Academy of Ancient Music
Nardus Williams soprano
Reginald Mobley alto
Thomas Walker tenor
Ashley Riches bass
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
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.

Blondie in Camera 1978
Event

Blondie in Camera 1978

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Mona Hatoum's sculpture Orbital - a spherical structure, resembling a globe, made from steel reinforcement bars and clumps of rough concrete
Event
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 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.

Blondie in Camera 1978
Event

Blondie in Camera 1978

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Mona Hatoum's sculpture Orbital - a spherical structure, resembling a globe, made from steel reinforcement bars and clumps of rough concrete
Event
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.

Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, facing the Orchestra on the conductor's podium, with both hands raised in the air
Event
Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Relive the golden age of Hollywood and beyond with music by some of cinema’s most brilliant and influential composers.

Miklós Rózsa Prelude, The Mother’s Love and Parade of the Charioteers from ‘Ben Hur’; Movements 2 & 3 from Violin Concerto
Bernard Herrmann Scène d’amour from ‘Vertigo’
David Raksin Laura; Love is for the Very Young from ‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ Suite
Max Steiner Opening Title Sequence from ‘Gone with the Wind’
William Walton Selections from ‘Henry V’ Suite
Nino Rota Waltz from ‘The Godfather’
Ennio Morricone Gabriel’s Oboe from ‘The Mission’; Music from ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in America’
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
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.

Blondie in Camera 1978
Event

Blondie in Camera 1978

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Mona Hatoum's sculpture Orbital - a spherical structure, resembling a globe, made from steel reinforcement bars and clumps of rough concrete
Event
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 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 Antonio Pappano conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, facing the Orchestra on the conductor's podium, with both hands raised in the air
Event
Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Relive the golden age of Hollywood and beyond with music by some of cinema’s most brilliant and influential composers.

Miklós Rózsa Prelude, The Mother’s Love and Parade of the Charioteers from ‘Ben Hur’; Movements 2 & 3 from Violin Concerto
Bernard Herrmann Scène d’amour from ‘Vertigo’
David Raksin Laura; Love is for the Very Young from ‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ Suite
Max Steiner Opening Title Sequence from ‘Gone with the Wind’
William Walton Selections from ‘Henry V’ Suite
Nino Rota Waltz from ‘The Godfather’
Ennio Morricone Gabriel’s Oboe from ‘The Mission’; Music from ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in America’
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Blondie in Camera 1978
Event

Blondie in Camera 1978

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Mona Hatoum's sculpture Orbital - a spherical structure, resembling a globe, made from steel reinforcement bars and clumps of rough concrete
Event
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 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.