We are proud to present the UK premiere of Bushra El-Turk’s latest music theatre work, featuring star singers Ghalia Benali, Dima Orsho and Bernadeta Astari.
Vivid music and bespoke projections transport us back to Vienna, 1918, and into composer Arnold Schoenberg’s underground utopia of musical escapism.
Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra open their new season with Mahler’s heartrending Ninth Symphony.
Best of Broadway returns to the Royal Albert Hall! Join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a sensational cast of West End stars for an evening of Broadway’s most iconic hits.
Iconic artists Gilbert & George join forces with the Philharmonia to celebrate their landmark exhibition Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures at the Hayward Gallery.
Become Ocean: Dalia Stasevska conducts John Luther Adams’s 21st century cult classic.
Conor Mitchell’s scandalous new queer opera, inspired by the life and writings of a notorious 19th-century Irish sex worker, makes its UK debut in concert.
A great pianist meets a high-flying young quartet in chamber music of irresistible vitality, culminating in a landmark UK premiere.
The BBC Singers and Principal Guest Conductor Owain Park join forces with acclaimed Nigerian-Scottish trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo.
The ever-creative violinist pays a centenary tribute to the genius of Pierre Boulez and his legacy in a programme highlighting the magic of live electronics.
Big band music with a modern twist! Award-winning jazz arranger and composer Ed Puddick makes his debut with the RCM Jazz Orchestra
Set sail on a musical voyage with the RCM Philharmonic in a concert themed around the sea, featuring Debussy’s majestic seascape, La mer, alongside the most threatening two-note film music motif ever composed...
‘Titanic’ was how one critic described the playing of pianist Boris Giltburg, and they didn’t stop there: ‘Giltburg had enormous reserves of firepower – and of musing poetry, too – to open up whole worlds of feeling and imagination.’ Now imagine him bringing all his wizardry to one of the best-loved showpieces of all time – Grieg’s evergreen (and gloriously tuneful) Piano Concerto. With an extra touch of magic from the RPO’s charismatic Conductor-in-Residence Kevin John Edusei, it’s the big heart of a concert that begins in California, with Gabriella Smith’s ingenious musical nature notebook and ends beneath the Northern Lights of Finland, as Sibelius’ mighty Second Symphony grows from tranquil beginnings to a soaring hymn of triumph. Prepare to be swept away.
‘He made me listen to the music afresh... the whole trajectory of the piece became clearer. The audience’s reaction was fervent and impassioned, and rightly so.’ Seen and Heard International on Boris Giltburg, February 2024
RPO Annual Legacy Giving Concert
Blending a cappella singing with expressive movement, Gesualdo Passione crowns Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants' work on Carlo Gesualdo, in a modern creation by choreographer Amala Dianor.
Nil Venditti, Jess Gillam and the BBC Symphony Orchestra travel from the West of Ireland to the shores of the Bosphorus, in music by Ottorino Respighi, Giacomo Puccini, Fazil Say and Anna Clyne.
Kaleidoscopic music by Adès and Ruders meet Sibelius’ evocative landscapes, and the promise of vibrant new music by Alex Paxton.