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21May
Sandy Denny Tribute, Barbican Centre
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21May
New Adventures, Matthew Bourne early works, Sadler's Wells
21-26 May: Matthew Bourne’s "Early Adventures", consisting of Spitfire, Town and Country and The Infernal Galop - pieces that made his reputation for English wit - revived by his company New... |
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21May
Ballo della Regina/La Sylphide, Royal Ballet
21 May, 2012: Double bill - Ballo della Regina... |
Upcoming Events
Theatre
Here come the Olympics: the classic 1981 Hugh Hudson film adapted for the stage by Mike Bartlett and directed by Edward Hall. Runs 9 May to 16 June. Booking: http://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/page/3032/Chariots+of+Fire/302
70-minute Can Themba play returns to London, this time co-directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne in a production first seen at Brook's Theatre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Runs 21 May - 16 June inclusive. Booking via theatre website: www...
29 May-2 June, Cymbeline, Ninagawa Company, Barbican Theatre (180 mins). The fêted Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa, renowned for his visually powerful staging, brings this new Japanese language production of Shakespeare's romance tragedy.
Emily Taaffe plays Viola in David Farr staging (transferred from Stratford) of Shakespeare comedy, designed by Jon Bausor. Runs thru 5 July in repertory with The Tempest. Booking information here: http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/...
Written in the shadow of the atom bomb and at a time of unprecedented scientific advance, Dürrenmatt’s hilariously satirical masterpiece, in this exhilarating new version by Jack Thorne, considers if insanity is the only refuge for the dangerously...
David Bedella and Sara Kestelman head cast in actor-turned-director Douglas Hodge's take on erstwhile Harvey Fierstein Tony-winning triptych. Runs 30 May - 11 Aug inclusive. Booking via theatre website: www.menierchocolatefactory.com
John Collins's Elevator Repair Service production from New York that stages the entirety of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel across eight hours including a meal break. Runs 8 June - 15 July inclusive. Booking via www.gatzlondon.com
Julie Walters plays an ageing society dropout in the debut stage play by TV writer Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans is directed by Howard Davies at the Lyttleton (from 12 June), with Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory as Walters's children....
Simon Russell Beale directed by Nicholas Hytner in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Olivier Theatre (opens 17 July)
Classical music
Bach J.S., Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV1048 Bach J.S., Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten - Cantata, BWV207 Bach J.S., Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde - Cantata, BWV201 Dunedin Consort and Players John Butt, Director...
Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 14 in A minor, D.784 Brahms, Three Intermezzi for Piano, Op.117 Liszt, Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178 Arcadi Volodos, Piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Belohlavek Brahms Violin Concerto 24 May 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Brahms Violin Concerto Suk The Ripening BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor Isabelle Faust violin BBC Symphony Chorus After all the...
Birtwistle, Cortege, for ensemble Birtwistle, Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum Birtwistle, Five Distances for Five Instruments Birtwistle, In Broken Images after the antiphonal music of Gabrieli, for ensemble London Sinfonietta David...
Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67 Spira Mirabilis
St Johns Smith Square, London Handel and the Rival Queens Two feisty modern-day sopranos, aided by one of the rising-star conductors in the Baroque opera world, take on the roles of the great rival divas of Handel's London operas of the 1720s,...
London Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas Mahler Symphony No 4 and Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 27 May 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 Mahler Symphony No 4 Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Elizabeth Watts soprano...
Works by Bach J.S. Works by Cage Works by Tristano Francesco Tristano, Piano
London Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas Mahler Symphony No 1 (‘Titan’) 31 May 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Berg Chamber Concerto Mahler Symphony No 1 (‘Titan’) Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Yefim Bronfman piano Gil Shaham violin London...
Byrd, Galliard Jig Byrd, Callino Casturame Byrd, Hughe Ashtons Grownde Britten, String Quartet no. 3, Op.94 Elgar, Quintet for Piano and Strings in A minor Endellion String Quartet Stephen Hough, Piano
Murray Perahia 7 June 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Beethoven Sonata no. 14 Op 27, no2 (“Moonlight”) Schumann Faschingschwank aus Wien, op 26 Schubert Sonata D 664 in A Major Chopin Polonaise op 26 / 1 C# minor Chopin Prelude Op 28 / 8 F# minor...
London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink Music by Purcell, Mozart and Schubert 10 June 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Purcell Chacony in G minor Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 Schubert Symphony No 9 (‘The Great’) Bernard Haitink conductor Maria João...
Performers Jonas Kaufmann tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Programme Liszt Vergiftet sind meine Lieder Im Rhein, im schönen Strome Freudvoll und leidvoll Es war ein König in Thule Ihr Glocken von Marling Die drei Zigeuner Mahler Five Rückert Lieder...
Fauré, Pélleas et Mélisande, Op.80 Ravel, Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand Debussy, Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune Debussy, La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Sir Simon...
London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink Bruckner Symphony No 7 14 June 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Purcell arr Steven Stucky Funeral Music for Queen Mary Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 Bruckner Symphony No 7 Bernard Haitink conductor Maria João...
Vienna Philharmonic / Rattle Music by Brahms, Webern and Schumann 17 June 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Brahms Symphony No 3 Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra Schumann Symphony No 3, 'Rhenish' Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor...
Music by Lully, M-A Charpentier and M Marais
Gilberto Gil with the London Symphony Orchestra 4 July 2012 / 19:30 Barbican Hall Iconic South-American singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil is joined by the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Francois-Xavier Roth for an evening featuring new...
Aurora Orchestra: Battle Part of New Moves 2012 13 July 2012 / 19:30 LSO St Luke’s Biber Battalia Shostakovich (arr Barshai) String Quartet No 3 Holst (arr Iain Farrington) 'Mars' and 'Venus' from The Planets Julian Philips New work for chamber...
New music
http://www.ents24.com/web/event/White-Denim-HMV-Forum-London-2812845.html Texan alt-rock groovers
http://www.ents24.com/web/event/Vinicio-Capossela-Barbican-Centre-London... Tom Waits-ish Italian singer
Surviving Big Star member Jody Stephens gathers Big Star acolytes Mitch Easter, Mike Mills, Chris Stamey and Ken Stringfellow (who's recorded with Big Star) to pay tribute to the album also known as Sister Lovers. The album was never played live in...
8 Jun, Accordion Wrestling, York Hall (Bethnal Green). Finnish accordion adventurist Kimmo Pohjonen’s singular mission is to expand the capabilities, sound, scope, performance and experience of the accordion to new levels. One of his most recent...
Pop legends Ron and Russell Mael return to rework their greatest hits in a special one-off performance. Tickets: http://www.ents24.com/web/event/Two-Hands-One-Mouth-Bush-Hall-London-288...
The multitasking pop star joins the line-up for this marathon Poetry Olympics event also featuring Michael Horowitz, Stan Tracey, John Hegley and many more. Tickets: http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/49992/Damon_Albarn.html
Norway's ten-piece, no musical boundaries collective fuse jazz, post-rock, modern classical and the textures of soundtracks, never less than thrillingly. Band prime mover Lars Horntveth plays the British debut of new compostion Kaleidoscopic as well...
Parks might best-known as Brian Wilson's lyrical partner for ‘Smile’, but he also had three superb solo albums: 'Song Cycle' (1968), 'Discover America' (1972) and 'Clang Of The Yankee Reaper' (1975). This one-off London career-retrospective show...
See the Jersey Boys for real as part-time Soprano Franki Valli tears through wonders like "Grease", "Let’s Hang On", "Big Girls Don’t Cry", "Walk Like A Man" and December 1963 (Oh What A Night)". Buy tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/frankie...
See the Jersey Boys for real as part-time Soprano Franki Valli tears through wonders like "Grease", "Let’s Hang On", "Big Girls Don’t Cry", "Walk Like A Man" and December 1963 (Oh What A Night)". Buy tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/frankie...
The influential and reunited garage kings from Tacoma, Washington are as wild now as they were in 1964. Twenty-five years before grunge, they were grunge. Buy tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/Event/THE-SONICS/HMV-Forum/635741
British power crooner reopens newly refurbished venue. Performing for six nights from the 9th to the 14th July
Late 80s pop/hip-hop queen with jazz experimentalists
Legendary is an abused word, but Wanda Jackson actually is. The female Elvis, she is and was the Queen of Rockabilly and one of her collaborator Jack White’s idols. Buy tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/Event/WANDA-JACKSON/Islington-Assembly-Hall/...
Visual arts
An exhibition exploring the influence of horses in history, from their domestication around 3,500 BC to the present day. Britain’s long equestrian tradition is examined from the introduction of the Arabian breed in the 18th century to present day...
The exhibition explores the similarities between the three artists in style, subject and artistic motivation. Until 28 October http://bit.ly/eb4yVG
Jenny Saville rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with her monumental paintings depicting flesh and form on a vast scale, where a sense of physicality is scrutinized with an uncompromising intensity. This exhibition traces her work from the early...
An exhibition devoted to the reassessment of the work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. It will explore the artist's engagement with photography, film and the birth of modernist theatre. Until October 14 http://bit.ly/gzcM3h
Tino Sehgal's commission for the Turbine Hall, presented as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Avoiding the production of any objects, the artist's works respond to and engage with the gallery visitor directly, creating social situations through the use...
Dance
24 May-23 June, Peacock Theatre: Wah! Wah! Girls, a new musical in which East London meets Bollywood. This first collaboration between Sadler’s Wells, Stratford East and Kneehigh is inspired by the song and dance of traditional Mujra dancers and set...
29 May–1 June, Sadler’s Wells: Danza Contemporanea de Cuba returns to London during a UK tour, with a triple bill including George Céspedes’ Mambo 3XXI, a Sadler’s Wells co-commission, and a new work from Itzak Gallili. Booking: www.sadlerswells....
29 & 30 May: Double bill with young French choreographer-dancer Noé Soulier and London-based Frauke Requardt and Freddie Opoku-Addaie. Booking: www.sadlerswells.com
1-2 June, followed by tour to Nottingham, Oxford, Torquay, Birmingham, Wimbledon, Woking, Aylesbury and Manchester 10 ballet dancers and the 10-man streetdance crew Flawless in a battle of acrobatics and ballet http://www.ballet.org.uk
2-29 June. The Prince of the Pagodas (MacMillan/Britten). Eight performances for this Nicholas Georgiadis-designed fairytale to Britten's fascinating orientalist score, about a Princess’s love for a salamander, originally created for the very young...
6-7 June, Viktor (Rome), SWT A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Teatro Argentina di Roma which premiered on 14 May 1986. Booking: www.sadlerswells.com
9-10 June, Nur Du (Only You) (Los Angeles), Barbican A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with the University of California in Los Angeles, the Arizona State University, the University of California in Berkley, the University of Texas in Austin...
12-13 June, …Como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si (Santiago de Chile), SWT A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Festival International de Teatro Santiago a Mil in Chile and the support of Goethe-Institut Chile in cooperation with...
15-16 June, Ten Chi (Saitama), Barbican A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Saitama Prefecture, Saitama Arts Foundation and Nippon Cultural Centre which premiered on 8 May 2004.
18-19 June, Der Fensterputzer (Hong Kong), SWT The Window Washer, a piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong which premiered on 12 February 1997. booking: http://www.sadlerswells.com
19-23 June; also Wales Millennium Centre, 26-30 June; Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 4-8 July Dance GB, an Olympics dance celebration which unites the nations, English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet and National Dance Company Wales. Each company...
20-23 Jun, Far From the Madding Crowd, Birmingham Hippodrome. Thomas Hardy's novel about Bathsheba Everdene and her fatal attractiveness to three men was adapted by David Bintley into a ballet with music by Paul Reade, who also composed Hobson's...
20-23 Jun, Far From the Madding Crowd, Birmingham Hippodrome. Thomas Hardy's novel about Bathsheba Everdene and her fatal attractiveness to three men was adapted by David Bintley into a ballet with music by Paul Reade, who also composed Hobson's...
21-22 June, Bamboo Blues (Kolkata), Barbican A piece about Calcutta by Pina Bausch in co-production with Goethe-Institut in India which premiered on 18 May 2007.
24-25 June, Nefés (Istanbul), SWT A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with the International Istanbul Festival and the Istanbul Foundation of Arts and Culture which premiered on 21 March 2003. booking: http://www.sadlerswells.com
26-30 June; Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 4-8 July Dance GB, an Olympics dance celebration which unites the nations, English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet and National Dance Company Wales. Each company commissioning contemporary choreographers...
27-30 Jun, "Summer Celebration": The Grand Tour (New production)/ Faster, Higher, Stronger (World Premiere) / The Dream, Birmingham Hippodrome. BRB ticketline: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Birmingham-Ballet-tickets/artist/949347?li... American...
28-29 June, Água (São Paulo), Barbican A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Brazil, Goethe-Institut São Paulo and Emilio Kalil which premiered on 12 May 2001.
30 June-7 July: Triple bill - Birthday Offering, A Month in the Country, Les noces (5 perfs). Ashton’s celebration of seven ballerinas marks the Royal Ballet’s 80th anniversary and opens the penultimate offering of Dame Monica Mason's directorship,...
1-2 July, Palermo, Palermo (Palermo), SWT A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Teatro Biondo Stabile, Palermo and Andres Neumann International which premiered on 17 December 1989.
4-8 July, Sadler’s Wells: Set up to nurture the talents of a new generation of dancers, choreographers, musicians, artists and designers, New English Ballet Theatre, whose patrons include Darcey Bussell and Carlos Acosta, make their debut season at...
Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 4-8 July Dance GB, an Olympics dance collaboration of the nations, with English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet and National Dance Company Wales. Each company commissioning contemporary choreographers: for Scottish...
8-9 July, Wiesenland (Budapest), SWT A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Goethe-Institut Budapest and Théâtre de la Ville, Paris which premiered on 5 May 2000
12 July-5 August, Sadler’s Wells: Matthew Bourne’s award-winning Play Without Words, originally premiered at the National Theatre in 2002, returns afresh in a four-week season. A funny, sinister society power-play in the vein of Joseph Losey's film...
14-20 July: Metamophorsis: Titian 2012. Seven choreographers collaborate with artists Conrad Shawcross, Mark Wallinger and Chris Ofili in a National Gallery project to spotlight Titian’s great paintings, Diana and Actaeon, The Death of Actaeon and...
Opera
25 May-14 June: Glanert's Caligula NEW PRODUCTION. When his adored sister’s death awakes him to a realisation of life’s essential absurdity, the Roman emperor Caligula embarks upon an orgy of sexual depravity and sadistic cruelty in an apparently...
Our Town by Ned Rorem 29 May 2012 - 6 June 2012 / 19:00 Silk Street Theatre, Guildhall School Ned Rorem’s intimate chamber opera was first performed at Indiana University on 24 February, 2006. The libretto, by J.D. McClatchy, is based on the...
Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Sheffield Lyceum Theatre 31 May-2 Jun; Edinburgh Festival Theatre 7-9 Jun; Belfast Grand Opera House 13-16 Jun. The aristocratic dynasty the Murgatroyds are obliged by a witch's curse to commit a crime a day, but...
31 May, 2012: Salome (Richard Strauss). Revival conducted by Andris Nelsons, starring Angela Denoke, Egils Silins, Stig Andersen and Rosalind Plowright www.roh.org.uk
Puccini’s La bohème (NEW PRODUCTION), Cardiff WMC 1, 3, 6, 8 & 9 June; Birmingham Hippodrome 13, 14...
Wagner's Die Walküre, Leeds Town Hall, 16, 20 & 27 June; The Sage, Gateshead, 23 June; Birmingham Symphony Hall, 30 Jun; The Lowry Salford Quays, 14 July. Concert performances staged with film and lighting effects by the mastermind Peter Mumford...
18n June-8 July: Britten's Billy Budd NEW PRODUCTION. A metaphysical battle between good and evil fought out aboard a British man-o'-war, Britten’s richly orchestrated all-male opera was originally commissioned for the 1951 Festival of Britain and...
25 June, 2012: Les Troyens (Berlioz, 1858), NEW PRODUCTION. First complete staging at the ROH since 1972, directed by David McVicar, conducted by Pappano. Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Caterina Antonacci and Eva-Maria Westbroek lead the cast. www.roh.org.uk
25 June-7 July: Damon Albarn's Dr Dee LONDON PREMIERE. Following the success of Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West, ENO presents the London premiere of Albarn’s visionary new opera Dr Dee. Although largely unknown today, Doctor Dee was the...
11-21 July: Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin). London Stage Premiere of Cape Town Opera’s production. To mark 75 years since George Gershwin’s tragically early death, Cape Town Opera performs this...
12 July, 2012: Otello (Verdi). Revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s production conducted by Pappano, with Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anja Harteros and Lucio Gallo in the principal roles. www.roh.org.uk
19-20 July, Desdemona, Toni Morrison/ Rokia Traoré/ Peter Sellars, Barbican Hall. In response to Peter Sellars’ 2009 Othello, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison and Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traoré collaborate to create an intimate...
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Dance
23-28 July: Peter Schaufuss Ballet from Denmark shows Schaufuss's Tchaikovsky Trilogy - his wholesale reinterpretations of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker in his own style. All three are played end to end on the Saturday. Swan Lake...
23-28 July: Peter Schaufuss Ballet from Denmark shows Schaufuss's Tchaikovsky Trilogy - his wholesale reinterpretations of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker in his own style. All three are played end to end on the Saturday. Swan Lake...
23-28 July: Peter Schaufuss Ballet from Denmark shows Schaufuss's Tchaikovsky Trilogy - his wholesale reinterpretations of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker in his own style. All three are played end to end on the Saturday. Swan Lake...
3-11 August: English National Ballet - Swan Lake in Derek Deane's fine theatre production (not the same as his arena one) Booking: http://www.eno.org
19-22 September, Swan Lake, The Lowry, Salford. Sir Peter Wright's superb production created with former ballerina Galina Samsova in 1991 for BRB, designed with marvellous luxury by Philip Prowse. booking: www.brb.org.uk
26-29 September, Opposites Attract mixed bill: Jessica Lang’s Lyric Pieces / David Bintley’s Take Five / Hans van Manen’s Grosse Fuge, Birmingham Hippodrome. A triple bill features US choreographer Jessica Lang in her UK premiere, set to Grieg's...
8 Oct-24 Nov, Swan Lake (20 performances). Anthony Dowell's production of the Petipa/Ivanov classic designed in lavish Art Nouveau style by Yolanda Sonnabend. Casts: Odette+Odile/ Prince/ Rothbart Oct 8, 13M, Nov 10E Nunez/Soarez/Saunders Oct 10,...
3-14 Nov, Viscera (COMPANY PREMIERE)/ Infra/ Fool's Paradise (6 pfs). The first mixed bill of Kevin O'Hare's directorship joins three of today's strongest ballet voices at the Royal. Liam Scarlett's work was created earlier this year for Miami City...
8 Dec-15 Jan - Peter Wright's beautiful, high-style staging of The Nutcracker to Tchaikovsky's ever-magical music Casts: Dec 8, 13 Marquez/McRae Dec 10, 14 Nunez/Soares Dec 11, 23M, Jan 2M Morera/Bonelli Dec 27M Hamilton/Trzensimiech Dec 27E, Jan 8...
17 Nov- 5 Dec: MacMillan night: Concerto, Las Hermanas, Requiem Casts: Nov 17, 27 Choe/McRae/Lamb/Hirano/Cuthbertson* Yanowsky*/Morera*/Hamilton*/Soares* Benjamin/Nunez/Pennefather/Acosta/Cervera Nov 21 Takada*/Campbell*/Nunez/Pennefather/Calvert...
21 November-9 December, Cinderella, Birmingham Hippodrome. BRB's Christmas seasonal offering is David Bintley’s Cinderella premiered at Birmingham Hippodrome in November 2010, to celebrate BRB's 20th anniversary. With breathtaking designs by John...
12 Dec-5 Jan (Linbury Studio Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (30 pfs). Will Tuckett's charming stagework based on the Kenneth Grahame children's classic has a delicious dressing-up box quality. Booking: http://www.roh.org.uk
22 Dec-11 Jan, The Firebird/ In the Night/ Raymonda Act III (6 pfs). Fokine's glittering fairytale to Stravinsky's magical score marks 100 years since the work was first performed at Covent Garden. Jerome Robbins' In the Night is a romantic...
19 Jan-8 Feb, Onegin (13 pfs). John Cranko's romantic ballet retelling of Pushkin's story of an aloof man who comes to regret breaking the heart of young Tatyana has become a favourite with ballerinas everywhere. Music adapted from Tchaikovsky -...
12-23 Feb, Ashton night: La Valse/ Thaïs/ Voices of Spring/ Monotones I...
15-23 February 2013, Aladdin (UK PREMIERE), Birmingham Hippodrome. David Bintley tells the magical tale of love, trickery and triumph in a production created originally for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, and now aimed to be a popular family...
22 Feb-14 Mar, Apollo/ New Wheeldon (WORLD PREMIERE)/ New Ratmansky (WORLD PREMIERE) (5 pfs). Headline news that the two leading ballet choreographers of the world today each unveil a creation for the Royal Ballet. This will be Ratmansky's first...
4-8 June 2013, Coppélia, Birmingham Hippodrome. Peter Wright’s enchanting production of this joyous and witty ballet about a girl whose boyfriend two-times her with a doll is a celebration of love, with a sparkling score by Delibes, designs by Peter...
19-22 June 2013, Giselle, Birmingham Hippodrome. David Bintley and Galina Samsova’s production, designed by Hayden Griffin. In the ruins of an abbey Giselle tries to stop the ghosts from killing the man who betrayed her love. Giselle stands...
Theatre
in rep at the Lyttelton (from 24 July) is G B Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma
A stage production of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has been created by Simon Stephens for the Lyttelton, directed by Marianne Elliott (from 24 July), with Niamh Cusack and Una Stubbs among the cast.
London Road, the successful music theatre production by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork on the Ipswich murders, returns for a second run to the Olivier (28 July-6 Sep)
20-29 September, Mademoiselle Julie, Barbican Theatre (150 mins, no interval). Juliette Binoche stars as August Strindberg’s tragic heroine who fatally crosses class borders, in a French-language version directed by Frédéric Fisbach. Age guidance:...
Richard Bean (author of One Man, Two Guv'nors) will adapt Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo for a family show that opens at the Olivier Theatre on 17 November
Classical music
Wynton Marsalis' Swing Symphony Feat. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis...
London Symphony Orchestra 2012-13 Season Opening Concert Valery Gergiev: Brahms...
Final of LSO biennial conducting competition for EU conductors under 35. Jury includes Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Colin Davis, violinist Nikolaj Znaider, pianist Imogen Cooper, mezzo Sarah Connolly
New music
25-26 Jul, Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3): Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Hall. The UK premiere of jazz legend Wynton Marsalis’ symphonic meditation on the...
Jane Birkin is no stranger to performing the songs of her late partner Serge Gainsbourg. But this is a sole London outing for a show she has performed to rave reviews in America. It's a new slant: she is performing the songs with Japanese jazz...
The French legend beams down for two London shows – what must be his first for over four decades. Buy tickets: http://www.ticketline.co.uk/johnny-hallyday#bio
The French legend beams down for two London shows – what must be his first for over four decades. Buy tickets: http://www.ticketline.co.uk/johnny-hallyday#bio
Denmark’s experimental art-pop trio are playing their only UK dates of 2012 in October. They will perform music from their forthcoming album Piramida as an expanded six piece, and will be accompanied by the Northern Sinfonia. Arrangements are by...
French superstar marks 50 years since Piaf’s death with 'Kaas Chante Piaf'. Twenty-one of Piaf’s classics will be performed alongside images of Piaf. Orchestration and arrangements are by Golden Globe nominee Abel Korzeniowski, who recently composed...
Billed as a ‘Musical Directed by Jean-Charles De Castelbajac’, Nouvelle Vague an French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac collaborate on a high-concept theatre performance and gig, with concept, stage design and costumes by de Castelbajac...
Visual arts
This exhibition brings together some of the biggest names in international photography to explore the ways photographers for whom London was a foreign city saw and represented the subject in their distinctive ways. Artists include Bill Brandt, Henri...
Opera
15 August-15 September, Carousel, Opera North, Barbican Theatre (170 mins) – see website for schedule. Leeds’ Opera North return to the Barbican for their first long run with a new production of Rodgers...
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