This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
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 ShostakovichQuartet No 4
Quartet No 13
Elena FirsovaQuartet No 4
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 8
Carducci Quartet
Elmore Quartet
Kyan Quartet
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Library
Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music
Free
This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
Theatre & dance
Krapp’s Last Tape
Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.
Event
Theatre & dance
Passion Fruit
Brimming with joyful movement, brutal honesty and tender insight, this coming-of-age comedy-drama follows the life of Romeo, a Black, Gay, British-Jamaican boy growing up in North London.
Event
Library
Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music
Free
This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
Event
Theatre & dance
Krapp’s Last Tape
Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.
Event
Theatre & dance
Passion Fruit
Brimming with joyful movement, brutal honesty and tender insight, this coming-of-age comedy-drama follows the life of Romeo, a Black, Gay, British-Jamaican boy growing up in North London.
Event
Library
Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music
Free
This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
Event
Cinema
Relaxed Screening: The Brutalist
An architect escapes Europe to start a new life in America but struggles to move on from his past and build a new future.
Event
Theatre & dance
Krapp’s Last Tape
Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.
Event
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 RavelSerenade 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
Event
Theatre & dance
Passion Fruit
Brimming with joyful movement, brutal honesty and tender insight, this coming-of-age comedy-drama follows the life of Romeo, a Black, Gay, British-Jamaican boy growing up in North London.
Event
Library
Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music
Free
This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
Event
Theatre & dance
Krapp’s Last Tape
Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.
Event
Contemporary music
Whiplash (15) in Concert
Immerse yourself in the cut-throat world of a prestigious jazz school & rediscover Damien Chazelle’s masterpiece with a live performance conducted by the soundtrack's composer, Justin Hurwitz.
Event
Cinema
MET Opera Live: Le Nozze di Figaro
Figaro and Susanna are servants who plan to marry, but not before the Count and Marcellina get involved. Mozart's opera twists with conspiracy, romantic entanglements and deceit.
Event
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.
Mark ApplebaumOctober 1582 for harpsichord and live electronics
Mahan Esfahaniharpsichord
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Theatre & dance
Passion Fruit
Brimming with joyful movement, brutal honesty and tender insight, this coming-of-age comedy-drama follows the life of Romeo, a Black, Gay, British-Jamaican boy growing up in North London.
Event
Art & design
Noah Davis
Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
Event
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.
Event
Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle
Janáček’s hilarious satire about art, lunar travel, nationalism – and sausages.
