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Dance
Berlin, New York and Johannesburg dance in London
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Opera
The Christmas story is told in grand choruses and virtuosic solos, sung by the finest artists and with thrilling instrumental playing
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Visual Arts
An important and optimistic exhibition on the climate emergency and how we can live more sustainably
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Theatre
Ivo van Hove returns to the Barbican with another epic trek through history. Age of Rage fuses the myths of ancient Greek dramatists Euripides and Aeschylus
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Dance
Dance for all tastes in April
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Immersive
You are invited to a ball like no other: Le Bal de Paris, a sumptuous virtual reality event with digital costumes by Chanel, courtesy of choreographer Blanca Li
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Dance
A bumper month for dance in London
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Dance
The Barbican screens two dance films that illustrate the history of the extraordinary Indigenous Australian Bangarra Dance Theatre
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Opera
Messiah makes an impact however it is sung. But what's so special about an oratorio written in a rush and using recycled material? Claudia Pritchard explains
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Gigs
EFG London Jazz Festival features everything from jazz icons playing the biggest stages to fledgling greats serenading intimate bars
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Opera
The scintillating American mezzo-soprano gives a solo recital with music inspired by solitude
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Classical Music
The charismatic Chinese virtuoso performs the endlessly fascinating Goldberg Variations
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Immersive
The Bridge Theatre has added new shows to Vox Motus's immersive diorama Flight, which follows two young Afghan brothers’ hazardous journey in search of a better life In London
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Symphony concerts that open up new horizons, operas that take audiences to another realm .... trust music to transport us out of daily life and make a world of difference
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Opera
Two months of live music performed by leading artists. Listen in person, or be part of the online audience.
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Immersive
After superlative reviews and a sellout run, Complicite's extraordinary exploration of sounds and storytelling will be available to experience online
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Best of
Booking opens at 10AM on Mon 16 March for a full year of first-class music. Here is our pick of the great orchestras, soloists, programmes and premieres
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Dance
American choreographer Pam Tanowitz’s critically acclaimed New Work for Goldberg Variations has its European premiere at the Barbican this spring
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Opera
Friends, colleagues and inveterate music-makers, the great German tenor and Covent Garden conductor give a recital of favourite pieces
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Cinema
Barbican cinema discounts, 2 for 1 tickets and cheap day Tuesday: we round up where to buy and how to get cheap cinema tickets in London
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A bumper year for opera in both city and country houses, concerts marking 250 years of Beethoven's legacy and a chance to catch the biggest names in music today
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The UK-Russia Year of Music comes to a brilliant end with concerts featuring Russian artists and masterworks, but much more Russian music lies ahead
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Visual Arts
The Barbican Centre's immersive look into the world of cabarets and clubs invites you to become a child of the night
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Classical Music
Words and music combine when the writer and actor Stephen Fry joins the Baroque specialists AAM to launch its 2019/20 season, with Beethoven and Dussek
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Theatre
International theatre's most in-demand auteur is directing the legendary Comédie-Française company in his adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1969 film
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Dance
Kalakuta Republik, by Serge Aimé Coulibaly and Faso Dance Théâtre brings vigorous dancing to the Barbican, but a muddled narrative seriously mars its impact
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Theatre
Cheek By Jowl's Declan Donnellan directs the renowned Russian ensemble in a comedy by one of Shakespeare's greatest contemporaries
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Immersive
Two days of free concerts, with performers representing every branch of music, from traditional symphony orchestras to alternative musicians who cross boundaries
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Dance
Night of 100 Solos, Merce Cunningham’s transatlantic centenary celebration, provided a dazzling sampler of the late American choreographer’s work
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New music, Beethoven commemorations, and world-class soloists at the forefront of classical music converge at the Barbican
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Dance
Not a moment too soon at the Barbican, part of the centenary commemoration of the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, is an event that promises much but falls short
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Dance
Tesseract, a multidisciplinary performance work that plays with our perceptions of time and space, has its European premiere at the Barbican, following its New York debut