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Gala de Danza at Westminster’s Central Hall on 25 and 26 June 2025

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Gala de Danza Central Hall Westminster Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 June 2025  For more information and tickets click here  Gala de Danza, the international dance, music, and art festival will have its London premiere with three performances on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June at Central Hall Westminster. Gala de Danza founded by former American Ballet Theatre Dancer … Read more

Oldenburg State Theatre in 2025-26

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Oldenburg’s new 2025-26 season Looking back on two thirds of his first season in office, Oldenburg State Theatre’s artistic manager Georg Heckel was full of praise for the openness of Oldenburg’s audiences towards a new administration. This boost of confidence, not necessarily the norm for incoming leadership teams, influenced decisions for the second, 2025/26 season … Read more

Grimeborn Opera Festival 2025 – 16 July to 13 September

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Announcing the full programme of shows in the Grimeborn Opera Festival 2025 The festival will be staged for its 19th year at Arcola Theatre An exciting, anything-goes opera festival that rips up the rulebook and writes something radically new Opera reinvented, rewired, and reborn Arcola Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen said: ‘Once again we are thrilled to … Read more

Das Rheingold at Grange Park Opera in June and July 2026 with the Orchestra of English National Opera

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Bu­ckle up Wagnerians! The Ring Cycle is coming to Surrey Starting in 2026, Grange Park Opera undertakes the mammoth feat of staging the complete Ring Cycle across four successive years. Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen (usually known simply as The Ring Cycle) starts in 2026 with Das Rheingold – the first performance will be on 14 June (followed by 20 … Read more

English National Opera in 2025-26 and their new Music Director André de Ridder

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English National Opera announces new Music Director and 2025/26 Season  

André de Ridder © Hugo Glendinning (Courtesy of ENO)

André de Ridder appointed as ENO’s Music Director, with his first conducting engagement as Music Director Designate in February 2026.

The 2025/26 Season includes 12 productions and concerts across London and Greater Manchester, featuring 5 new productions (for more information about these and how to book tickets click here)

Ongoing expansion of ENO’s work nationally through new broadcast partnerships and learning and participation programmes.

Free tickets for Under 21s continue, extending to audiences in Greater Manchester. 

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