Concerts & Events

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook standing on a stage and speaking to each other
Concert

The Rest is History with live orchestra: Tchaikovsky and Wagner

Tom Holland – host
Dominic Sandbrook – host
Oliver Zeffman – conductor

Royal Albert Hall

Friends event

Open Rehearsal: The Bach Choir - Belshazzar’s Feast

David Hill – conductor
Christopher Purves – baritone
The Bach Choir

  • Delius The Song of the High Hills
  • Blackford La Sagrada Familia Symphony (World premiere)
  • Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
Royal Festival Hall

Concert

The Bach Choir: Belshazzar’s Feast

David Hill – conductor
Christopher Purves – baritone
The Bach Choir

  • Delius The Song of the High Hills
  • Blackford La Sagrada Familia Symphony (World premiere)
  • Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Anna Lapwood sat at the organ looking into the camera and smiling
Concert

Anna Lapwood plays Max Richter, Hans Zimmer and more

André de Ridder – conductor
Anna Lapwood – organ
Philharmonia Chorus

  • Arakelyan World premiere for organ and orchestra
  • Zimmer 'Chevaliers de Sangreal' from The Da Vinci Code
  • Richter World premiere for organ, chorus and orchestra
  • Zimmer Suite from Interstellar
  • Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, 'Organ'
Royal Albert Hall

Johan Dalene holding violin looking to the side against a sunset backdrop
Concert

Canterbury: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6

Martyn Brabbins – conductor
Johan Dalene – violin

  • Mozart Overture, The Abduction from the Seraglio
  • Korngold Violin Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
The Marlowe, Canterbury

Artwork depicting a woman and soldier embracing
Opera

Garsington Opera: L'elisir d'amore

Chloe Rooke – conductor
Christopher Luscombe – director
Garsington Opera Chorus

 

Adina – Madison Leonard
Nemorino – Oleksiy Palchykov
Belcore – Carles Pachon
Dr Dulcamara – Richard Burkhard

  • Donizetti L'elisir d'amore
Garsington Opera

Painting of a woman playing the piano in a glowing white dress with a man in the background
Opera

Garsington Opera: The Queen of Spades

Douglas Boyd – conductor
Jack Furness – director
Garsington Opera Chorus
Garsington Opera Youth Company

 

Herman – Aaron Cawley
Lisa/Chloe – Laura Wilde
The Countess – Diana Montague
Count Tomsky/Plutus – Robert Hayward
Prince Yeletsky – Roderick Williams
Polina/Daphnis – Stephanie Wake-Edwards
Tchekalinsky – Sam Furness
Surin – Simon Shibambu

  • Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades
Garsington Opera

Friends event

Open Rehearsal: Santtu and Nikolai Lugansky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nikolai Lugansky – piano

  • Ravel Alborada del gracioso
  • Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Ravel La Valse
  • Respighi Pines of Rome
Royal Festival Hall

Concert

Santtu and Nikolai Lugansky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nikolai Lugansky – piano

  • Ravel Alborada del gracioso
  • Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Ravel La Valse
  • Respighi Pines of Rome
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Birds eye view of Nikolai Lugansky playing the piano
Concert

Lugano: Santtu and Nikolai Lugansky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nikolai Lugansky – piano

  • Ravel Alborada del gracioso
  • Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Ravel La valse
  • Respighi Pines of Rome
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura

Stained glass window art in a church
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: This Worlde's Joie

Geraint Bowen – conductor
Eleanor Dennis – soprano
James Oxley – tenor
Malachy Frame – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Choristers of Hereford Cathedral

  • Smyth Overture, The Wreckers
  • Dvořák Te Deum
  • Mathias This Worlde's Joie
Hereford Cathedral

Credit: Michael Whitefoot
Community performance

Three Choirs Festival: Eucharist Service

Geraint Bowen – conductor
Hereford Cathedral Choir

  • Haydn Schöpfungsmesse
  • Mozart Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore
  • Mozart Ave verum corpus
Hereford Cathedral

Dame Sarah Connolly looking into the camera and smiling. She is wearing a black shirt.
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Howells's Hymnus Paradisi

Adrian Partington – conductor
Rebecca Hardwick – soprano
Sarah Connolly – mezzo-soprano
Michael Bell – tenor
Malachy Frame – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Howells Paradise Rondel
  • Bliss Mary of Magdala
  • Howells Hymnus Paradisi
Hereford Cathedral

Painting of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: The Atonement

Samuel Hudson – conductor
Rebecca Hardwick – soprano
Aoife Miskelly – soprano
Amy Holyland – mezzo-soprano
Martha McLorian – mezzo-soprano
Marc Le Brocq – tenor
David Stout – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Coleridge-Taylor The Atonement
Hereford Cathedral