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There’s sweeping age old European classics, stirring symphonies from the ‘New World’ and more lined up for Warwick Arts Centre’s 2025-2026 Orchestral Season.
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, Paul Lewis CBE and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha join Chineke!, CBSO, RPO and more. Plus we celebrate the musicians of tomorrow with the best youth orchestras, Lunchtime Concerts and more.
Opera Holland Park announces its 2026 Season
In a year that honours 30 years since Opera Holland Park was established, the 2026 Season will open with a new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West.
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
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 announces new Music Director and 2025/26 Season
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.
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
35,000 tickets go on sale available at £25 or less and for further information and how to book tickets click here
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 – 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