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Theatre & dance

Hamlet: Teatro La Plaza

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This joyous and defiant ★★★★★ (The Stage) reimagining breathes new life into Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.

Two people perform on stage among large pieces of draping white fabric with bright lights projected onto it.
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Theatre & dance

Queer East: When the Cloud Catches Colours

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Thought-provoking theatre exploring the experience of two queer Singaporeans as they grow older. Based on true accounts, the show delves into relationships, family, insecurity, kindness and safety.

A photo of Stephen Hough with pink circular swirls around him
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Classical music

Hough plays Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto

Stephen Hough plays Beethoven and Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler’s First Symphony. Genius, pure and simple, from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3
Gustav Mahler Symphony No 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Stephen Hough piano
A group of people holding hands in a circle in a light lit by yellow and green lights.
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Talks & events

Concrete Garden: Experiments in Utopia

Free

Step inside our iconic conservatory for a day of talks, performances and workshops centred around intentional community building.

Seven members of the National Open Youth Orchestra holding instruments against a blue background surrounded by neon vectors
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Classical music

National Open Youth Orchestra: Ring Out! No more barriers

Experience the emotionally charged performances of one of the most exciting youth orchestras in the world.

Liam Taylor-West Ring Out! (world premiere)
Yfat Soul Zisso Fragile (world premiere)
Lucky Chops Behroozi
Meredith Monk Parlour Games
Kate Whitley Falling
Oliver Cross Barriers
National Open Youth Orchestra
The Carducci Quartet in a forest, standing in a row holding their instruments
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Classical music

Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 4

Three quartets unite to perform the Chamber Symphony enlargement of Shostakovich’s 8th quartet, crowning a programme including Firsova’s ardent, deftly-plotted Quartet No 4.

Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 4
Quartet No 13
Elena Firsova Quartet No 4
Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet No 8
Carducci Quartet
Elmore Quartet
Kyan Quartet
Actor Stephen Rea sits in front of a tape machine.
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Theatre & dance

Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape

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Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.

Seong-Jin Cho standing next to a piano
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Classical music

Seong-Jin Cho: A Ravel-athon

A sold-out hall greeted Seong-Jin Cho’s Barbican debut in 2023. His much-anticipated return navigates a scintillating all-Ravel programme, saluting the composer in his 150th anniversary year.

Maurice Ravel Serenade grotesque
Menuet antique
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Jeux d'eau
Sonatine
Miroirs
Gaspard de la nuit
Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Prélude
A la maniere de Borodine
A la maniere de Chabrier
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Seong-Jin Cho
Mahan Esfahani standing in front of a brick wall
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Classical music

Mahan Esfahani: Harpsichord recital

Splicing classic Baroque works with a reminder that the harpsichord is no mere museum piece, Mahan Esfahani has opened up inspiring new territories.

Hans Werner Henze Six Absences
Jean-Philippe Rameau Suite en mi-mineur
Luciano Berio Rounds
Dietrich Buxtehude La Capricciosa
Haïm Alexander Improvisation on a Persian Folksong
François Couperin Allemande La Logiviere
La Rafraîchissante
Les Charmes
L’Amphibie
Les Ondes
Anahita Abbasi Intertwined Distances (for Mahan Esfahani)
Mark Applebaum October 1582 for harpsichord and live electronics
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
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Talks & events

Concrete Garden: May Day

Free

Come together and celebrate the traditional springtime festival in our iconic conservatory at a day of talks and workshops. 

Sir Simon Rattle conducting the LSO
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

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Janáček’s hilarious satire about art, lunar travel, nationalism – and sausages. 

Leoš Janáček The Excursions of Mr Brouček
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Peter Hoare Brouček
Aleš Briscein Mazal/Blankytný/Petřík
Lucy Crowe Málinka/Etherea/Kunka
Gyula Orendt Sakristán/Lunobor/Domšík
Lukáš Zeman Svatopluk/Würfl/Čaroskvoucí/Ratsherr
Doubravka Novotná Číšníček/Wunderkind/Student
Arttu Kataja Artist/Dohuslav/Vojta
Linard Vrielink Skladatel/Harfoboj/Miroslav
Hanna Hipp Kedruta
Tenebrae
The woodwind section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on stage
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Classical music

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Robert Ziegler leads you on a journey through space and time with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Manu Martin Lim Cosmic Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
George Gershwin (arr Schoenfeld/Rothman) I Got Rhythm Variations
Gustav Holst The Planets
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Ziegler conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
City of London Choir
London Voices
Joyce DiDonato in a black dress, leaning with her back against a wall
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Classical music

Handel: Jephtha with Il Pomo D’oro and Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres star in Handel’s Jephtha – the composer's valedictory oratorio. 

George Frideric Handel Jephtha
Il Pomo d'Oro
Francesco Corti conductor
Michael Spyres Jephtha
Joyce DiDonato Storge
Mélissa Petit Ipihis
Cody Quattlebaum Zebul
Jasmin White Hamor
Il Pomo d'Oro Choir
Jess Gillam playing the saxophone in front of a pile of giant oranges
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Classical music

Her Ensemble: The Three Dancers

Three beautifully-conceived 21st century works inspired by the visual arts, culminating in a celebration of Balkan folk tunes herald the return of Ellie Consta’s pioneering Her Ensemble.

Caroline Shaw Thousandth Orange
Dobrinka Tabakova Insight
Elena Kats-Chernin The Three Dancers
Ezo Dem Sarici Balkan folk tunes
Her Ensemble
Laura Van Der Heijden cello
Jess Gillam saxophone
Junyan Chen piano
Double Bassist Strahinja Mitrović pictured in Barbican Hall, holding up the Gold Medal in box
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Classical music

The Gold Medal 2025

The final of Guildhall School's most prestigious music prize, offering the chance to enjoy songs and arias performed by three outstanding Guildhall vocalists in front of an esteemed panel of judges.