Autumn highlights: Must-see Classical Music and Opera concerts London 2014-15
As ever, London's major concert venues keep the city alive with the sound of world-class music. We've assembled the must-book classical music and opera tickets London 2014-15.
As ever, London's major concert venues keep the city alive with the sound of world-class music. Reich, Haitink, Barenboim, Rattle and Domingo vie for attention in spectacular seasons from the capital's leading institutions. We've assembled the must-book classical music and opera tickets London 2014-15 below.
I due Foscari October-November 2014
Verdi's early opera I due Foscari comes to Covent garden next autumn, starring the legendary Plácido Domingo.
Philip Glass 29 April 2015
Perhaps today’s greatest living composer, and a titan of 20th Century Classical music, Philip Glass comes to London next year to premiere a body of work that took 25 years to complete. Glass’s Piano Etudes, a series of twenty short, complex works, are at once mechanical and deeply personal. This is a rare, wonderful opportunity.
Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky's Rite of Spring January 15 2015
Ahead of his weeklong London residency with the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle joins the London Symphony Orchestra to perform a quartet of 20th century classics, climaxing with Stravinsky’s astonishing 1913 work Rite of Spring.
L'Orfeo January 2015
Former RSC director Michael Boyd brings the earliest surviving opera, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, to Chalk Farm's Roundhouse.
The Barenboim Project April - June 2015
London will be graced with the presence of one the world’s most venerated musicians next spring, when Daniel Barenboim takes up a two month residency at the Southbank Centre. Tickets are flying.
Tristan und Isolde December 2015
Cristof Loy revives his 2009 production of Wagner’s landmark opera, conducted by Pappano and starring Nina Stemme as a thrilling Isolde. Tickets on general sale October 24.
Idomeneo November 2015
Veteran Austrian director Martin Kušej’s production of Mozart’s early masterpiece Idomeneo is hugely anticipated and lands in Covent Garden this November
Alice in Wonderland 8 March 2015
Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland is a masterstroke, just as bizarre as you’d hope, as atonality swims alongside moments of melodic beauty. London has waited seven years for this opera, it finally arrives at the Barbican next March.
Bach: St Matthew Passion, with Mark Padmore
A pinnacle of the entire classical repertoire, Bach’s The Passion burns with religious intensity. This masterwork will be safe in the specialist hands of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, under the baton of Bach obsessive Mark Padmore, when it is aired on the Southbank next spring. The billed soloists read like a who’s who of outstanding vocalists. Don’t miss this concert.