Season Guides

BBC Proms 2012 In Full

Igor Toronyi-Lalic Friday, 20 April 2012

The 2012 BBC Proms open on 13 July and end on 8 September. This is the full list of the 76 concerts. Book tickets here. Prom 1: First Night of the PromsFri 13 July 2012, 7.30pm, Royal Albert...

Once again theartsdesk brings you its unmatched annual guide to Europe's music, film and arts festivals, complementing the UK festivals guide. With musicians and bands hunting out picturesque places...

UK Festivals Guide 2012

Ismene Brown Thursday, 05 April 2012

The Queen's given everyone an extra bank holiday, so while you rest up over the Easter holidays, start planning your next downtime with theartsdesk's definitive clickable festival guide for the...

Edinburgh International Festival 2012

Ismene Brown Tuesday, 03 April 2012

The Edinburgh International Festival runs this year from 9 August to 2 September, with an energetically global look. Forty-seven nations - around a third of the world's countries - are represented in...

The Royal Opera, 2012-13 Season

Ismene Brown Friday, 16 March 2012

New Royal Opera director Kasper Holten has announced a 2012-13 season in which big-name favourite operas and world opera stars are threaded through by 19th-century rarities and British operas. ROH...

The Royal Ballet, 2012-13 Season

Ismene Brown Wednesday, 14 March 2012

World premieres, new faces, lower ticket prices (and the first recycled opera production). The Royal Opera House announced a bullish attitude today as it enters the austerity post-Olympics period for...

Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2012-13 Season

Ismene Brown Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Birmingham Royal Ballet has outlined its 2012-13 season for its home base in Birmingham, indicating a shrunken repertoire due to subsidy cuts, but with a new full-length family ballet by David...

English National Ballet, 2012 Season

Ismene Brown Sunday, 19 February 2012

English National Ballet's 2012 summer is studded with events to build new audiences, with a new version for children to introduce them to The Sleeping Beauty, collaborations with Tate Britain and hip...

Regional Opera, 2012 Season

Ismene Brown Thursday, 12 January 2012

Popular operatic love stories by Puccini, Wagner and Mozart dominate the regional scene in 2012, but key talents like producer Tim Albery in Leeds, Lothar Koenigs in Cardiff and David McVicar in...

Sadler's Wells Theatre, 2012 Season

Ismene Brown Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Who would imagine that the search for new dance audiences would result in a cascade of fairy tales and dramas at Sadler's Wells, the focus for hip eyes on culture? But it is so - The Sleeping Beauty...

National Theatre, 2012 Season

Ismene Brown Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The National Theatre's summer highlights include Simon Russell Beale directed by Nicholas Hytner in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Julie Walters as an ageing society dropout in the debut stage...

Barbican Centre, 2012 Season

Ismene Brown Tuesday, 10 January 2012

London's Barbican Centre is 30 this year, and with a special Olympics subsidy boost as the world's eyes turn to the British capital this summer, it aims to be as lovely inside as it is famously...

Christmas Dance on Cinema, TV & Radio

Ismene Brown Monday, 12 December 2011

No more is dance the preserve of the few sitting in the theatre - larger companies are leaping hungrily for TV and now cinema screens, having found various ways around the longstanding obstacle of...

European Festivals 2011 Round-Up

Ismene Brown Monday, 23 May 2011

Be different - take a festival break in Europe instead of the UK, and catch a different landscape. While artists in both new music and classical are constantly circling the world in search of more...

UK Festivals 2011 Round-Up

Ismene Brown Saturday, 21 May 2011

It's time to dust down your tent and ice-box and plan some summer breaks with theartsdesk's definitive clickable festival guide - listings and links for all the UK festivals this summer, from rock...

English National Opera 2011-12 Season

Igor Toronyi-Lalic Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Contemporary music and 11 new productions are at the heart of a strong ENO 2011-12 season announced today. Highlights include a new opera from Damon Albarn (Doctor Dee) on the...