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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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Opera
The 10 best performances that herald Christmas with compelling story-telling, grand choruses and spectacular solos sung by the finest artists
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Best of
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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Musicals
Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza comes to the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall this summer, starring Renée Fleming, Dove Cameron and Alex Jennings
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Classical Music
New works, a Beethoven commemoration, and a Lisztian tour de force at the piano head up the 10-month season
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Classical Music
Experience the classic '80s film with a live orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall
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Opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) is a must for devotees of either electronic avant-garde or mammoth opera
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Classical Music
A spectacular season of classical music, steeped in Stravinsky, features top soloists and dynamic conductors
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Dance
ZooNation Youth Company make an explosive return to the Southbank with The Next Generation 2018, a show by the young, for the young
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Classical Music
Brahms and Bruckner expertly played by the prestigious Berlin orchestra that for many years were Sir Simon Rattle's home team
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Classical Music
It swings like a musical but also goes deep into the soul: Bernstein's faith-inspired work is both joyful and profound, and the National Youth Orchestra will perform it with passion
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Classical Music
Catch the soprano most talked about this year in an evening of dazzling music by Handel
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Players and singers in 18th-century attire bring to life the London-based world of composer Handel
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Classical Music
Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece October: Ten Days that Shook the World is being screened before live music by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican this October
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Classical Music
A moving Tchaikovsky symphony and a flamboyant story told in music mark a special anniversary
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Classical Music
Two of the greatest works in the repertoire are interrupted by a magical combination of orchestra, conductor and soloist
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Classical Music
Aurora Orchestra are pushing boundaries in a concert at the Royal Festival Hall which crosses various art-forms in its celebration of nature and birdsong
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Gigs
The award-winning five-piece folk band are joined by Army of Generals, in this exciting musical experiment at the Southbank Centre
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Classical Music
At the height of his powers, Mahler poured into his final symphony the musical knowhow and experience of a lifetime
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Classical Music
Beautiful landscape, pure love, angel voices ... Mahler's longest is a whole-heartedly joyful affair indeed
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Dance
Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and his company bring their multi-layered work, Morphed, to London’s Southbank this summer
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Talks
The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood talks fiction, feminism and activism in a rare public appearance at the Southbank Centre
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Talks
Journalist, activist and author Naomi Klein delivers a keynote talk on volatile politics and the art of resistance
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Classical Music
No props, no frocks ... get to grips with Wagner in a very direct and focused way – in concert
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Classical Music
A rare chance to hear a once forgotten symphony that has all the elements of a 20th-century classic
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Classical Music
Music overpowers ideology in Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, while Beethoven reflects his own times in his 5th Piano Concerto
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Classical Music
There are intimations of mortality in the London Philharmonic Orchestra's concert – but music fights back with humour
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Classical Music
As Easter approaches, a performance of Bach's large-scale dramatisation of the Passion
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Classical Music
With world-class playing and soloists, the RPO series would be a a wonderful introduction to concert-going
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Classical Music
Indestructible but endlessly revealing, Verdi's colossal work is packed with drama
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Classical Music
The exciting new orchestra, whose players of colour include world-class artists, is joined in concert by the virtuoso teenage player who scooped the annual BBC prize
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Theatre
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in London for little ones this May half term