Live autumn concerts, opera and chamber music
World-class audiences perform to small audiences, opera goes live, and The Gruffalo gets a musical make-over
Restore and Revive: City of London Sinfonia, Southwark Cathedral
The healing balm of live music soothes live audiences who can take a seat or choose their own space in the historic and atmospheric building. Choose from Haydn and Ligeti, or Mozart, Richard Strauss, Amy Beach and more.
Read more ...Spotlight Chamber Concerts live, St John's Waterloo
Five concerts featuring top singers and instrumentalists who perform to a safely distanced audience. This landmark church, will be dramatically lit to intensify the immersive experience. Artists include pianist Angela Hewitt, cellist Steven Isserlis, and baritone Roderick Williams (pictured).
Read more ...Christmas music: live at the Royal Albert Hall
For nearly 150 years, the Royal Albert Hall has been the London venue where Christmas begins for music-lovers. And that tradition continues, with a full programme performed to a safely spaced live audience this season. Look out for Handel's Messiah on 15 Dec, when soloists include soprano Francesca Chiejina (pictured).
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El Niño, English National Opera live
The 'nativity oratorio' by contemporary American composer John Adams’s El Niño tells the story of the birth of Christ from an unusual angle. Articulating Mary's thoughts before and after the birth are an impressive cast including soprano Nardus Williams (pictured)
Read more ...Live concert series, Wigmore Hall
World-class chamber music-making resumes in a series of concerts almost daily, with safely spaced live audience. Artists include baritone Christian Gerhaher, pianist Igor Levit, saxophonist Jess Gillam and soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn (pictured).
Kings Place, autumn concerts live
Live audiences and those at home can enjoy this autumn's classical concerts at Kings Place. Buy a ticket to be safely seated at the venue for an evening's music, or subscribe to a streaming of that performance. With the Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment (pictured), Aurora Orchestra, Brodsky Quartet and many other top-flight performers.
Read more ...Barbican live concerts this autumn
The Barbican becomes the first large-scale London venue to programme a whole season of live concerts to live audiences from early October until Christmas. Listen out for the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska (pictured).
Read more ...Fidelio Unbound: live music and dinner
As larger orchestras puzzle out a new way to perform live, this Clerkenwell venue has forged ahead with a series of live concerts featuring world-class artists. Listen up close to top players most nights of the week, and talk it over afterwards with dinner.
Read more ...Glyndebourne live, autumn dates
After the huge success of staging opera in the gardens at Glyndebourne this summer, the opera house announces a return to indoor performances, from 10 October. Full details on 7 Sept, but audiences can expect more performances of the summer hit, In The Market for Love, a shortened Magic Flute, and Christmas music.
Read more ...Cadogan Hall live: music for an audience of 300
With its generous stalls area and spacious balconies, Cadogan Hall off Sloane Square is well equipped to welcome a live audience once more. Its new autumn programme features classical musical, family events and jazz. We won't miss The Snowman with live music and a musical version of The Gruffalo, on 21 Dec.
Read more ...Fidelio semi-staged, Garsington Opera
A heroic rescue is at the heart of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio. And at Garsington Opera another heroic rescue has ensured that, while this year's season was cancelled, live and semi-staged performances of Fidelio will take place in September. Returns only for now, but it's worth joining the waiting list, and listening to the BBC Radio 3 broadcast, Sat 26 Sept, 6:30PM.
Read more ...London Piano Festival 2020, Kings Place
The London Piano Festival celebrates its fifth year at Kings Place as it began – with the piano centre stage and a live audience at a gala event. Of course numbers are limited, so that the 100 ticket-holders can be safely spaced. But music-lovers can also enjoy events streamed.
Read more ...Bromley & Beckenham International Music Festival
Benjamin Grosvenor, Hyeyoon Park (pictured) and friends stage a weekend of top-class music live close to home. Each one-hour concert has a live audience, safely spaced and helps fund both live music and local health projects.
Read more ...English National Opera: Drive and Live
Drive-in opera comes to London with English National Opera's return to live performance, at Alexandra Palace. A shortened version of Puccini's La Bohème, the Paris-based story of a doomed love affair, stars many of today's favourite singers, including, in the role of Mimì, sopranos Natalya Romaniw (pictured) and Nardus Williams.
Read more ...A Feast in the Time of Plague, Grange Park Opera live
A brand new opera, composed in six weeks, and with a distinguished pedigree and cast, is to be staged to a live, invited audience, the first new opera to be performed since lockdown. Starring Simon Keenlyside (pictured), as a sinister dinner guest.
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