London’s Sadler’s Wells theatres in 2025-26

Sadler’s Wells announces new programming across its four theatres

Associate Artists Crystal Pite, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alesandra Seutin, Hofesh Shechter, Akram Khan, Sharon Eyal, Jules Cunningham and Michael Keegan-Dolan all feature, as well as International Associate Company Acosta Danza 

Ballet Black, Andrea Peña, Armin Hokmi, Copenhagen Collective, Ichi Ni San, Yewande 103, Amit Noy and Sadeck Berrabah make their Sadler’s Wells debuts

World premieres of triple bill inspired by the work of Nico Muhly, a performance installation that reimagines Western ideas of progress, new work from Sadler’s Wells resident Company of Elders, plus Chaka Khan musical I’m Every Woman in 2026

Programming, workshops and symposiums announced for inaugural YFX Youth Festival, which celebrates the incredible youth work being created up and down the country

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2025-26

Awe-inspiring live music for everyone: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra announces performances across the South West Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth conducts 22 performances across the season including Basingstoke, Bristol, Exeter, Fareham, Poole, Sherborne and Taunton. Works by the Orchestra’s Celebrated Composer, Dani Howard, feature in 15 performances. Jess Gillam performs the UK premiere of Howard’s Saxophone Concerto in Bristol and Poole. Roderick Williams OBE becomes the Orchestra’s Artist-in-Residence, with … Read more

Oxford International Song Festival: 10 to 25 October 2025

Oxford International Song Festival – Stories in Song Oxford International Song Festival announces a thrilling and ambitious fortnight of song, with storytelling at its heart. Across 67 events, audiences can explore stories in many different forms, from fairytales and ballads to the human and artistic relationships behind the songs, to the developing stories of national … Read more

Sir Antonio Pappano The Royal Opera’s first Conductor Laureate

Sir Antonio Pappano becomes first Conductor Laureate of The Royal Opera   Following a magnificent 22-year tenure as Music Director, Sir Antonio Pappano today becomes the first Conductor Laureate of The Royal Opera, effective immediately. The title recognises his incredible legacy as the longest serving Music Director in Covent Garden history, conducting over 700 performances from … Read more

2025 Elgar Festival – 24 May to 1 June

‘Celebrate with Elgar’ in Worcester and Malvern – the Heart of Elgar Country
24 May to 1 June 2025

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Ian Venables: Featured Composer at the 2025 Elgar Festival © Michael Whitefoot

Ian Venables is celebrated as Featured Composer in this his 70th year at the 2025 Elgar Festival; 24 May – 1 June in Worcester and Malvern; the annual celebration of Sir Edward Elgar’s music and with whom he shares both a home and the inspirational landscape of Worcestershire. Symphonic and ensemble concerts are given by the Festival’s orchestra-in-residence, the English Symphony Orchestra under Principal Conductor and Festival Artistic Director, Kenneth Woods. World-renowned guest artists taking part include Raphael Wallfisch, Gareth Brynmor John, April Fredrick, Simon Callaghan and David Briggs. Tickets are now on sale.

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2025-26

The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2025/26 London season 

Key highlights: 

The LPO’s 2025/26 season theme, Harmony with Nature, explores humanity’s bond with the natural world and issues a call to protect it through the power of music that confronts, celebrates and inspires.

Contemporary voices throughout the season such as Gabriela Lena Franks’s Contested Eden (responding to wildfires), Gustavo Díaz-Jerez’s Tajogaite (volcanoes) and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s CATAMORPHOSIS (a sense of urgency driven by shifting polar forces) offer a contrasting reflection to the idyllic scenes of oceans, forests and mountains of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Sibelius.

The season also features seven-time Grammy Award-winning composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who, alongside his own jazz quintet, will perform the UK premiere of A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) with the Orchestra.

An array of star guests includes legendary violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, pianists Yefim Bronfman and Alexandre Kantorow, soprano Jennifer France and baritone Stéphane Degout.

More guest soloists this season include pianists Paul Lewis, Anna Vinnitskaya and Pavel Kolesnikov, as well as violinists James Ehnes, Alina Ibragimova and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.

The LPO’s performing and community activity in its Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden residencies is also announced today. Highlights include an evening of song with Danielle de Niese in Brighton, and Edward Gardner conducting a selection of Elgar works in Eastbourne.

The LPO will perform 9 premieres across the season including (in London and Birmingham) Tan Dun’s Nine – an ‘ode to peace’ commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society as a companion piece to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in its 200th anniversary year.

LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner presents ‘Phoenix Lands’, a two-concert focus exploring his fascination of twentieth-century composers from Central Europe.

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Edinburgh International Festival 2025 – 1 to 24 August

Edinburgh International Festival 2025
Breaks Boundaries in a Year Exploring ‘The Truth We Seek’

[l-r] Laura Beth Salter (Kinnaris Quintet), Festival Director Nicola Benedetti and Mia Habis (Dance People) © Laurence Winram

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Edinburgh International Festival’s 2025 programme offers opportunities to experience world-class artists in thought-provoking and unconventional ways – including an eight-hour choral extravaganza, a distinctive outdoor promenade dance piece and a circus infused opera. Audiences can also get involved in many Festival performances, from an outdoor mass-singalong to interactive concerts where the audience chooses the repertoire.

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