Women conductors make waves, the classics are refreshed by our leading orchestras, and opera goes from strength to strength
The biggest music festival in the world opens on Fri 19 July. Catch Sheku Kanneh-Mason, witness a world-class orchestral debut, hear the EU anthem in Beethoven's Choral Symphony – and see Queen Victoria's piano...
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Exciting new Russian-British orchestra celebrates international music-making with Rachmaninov's exhilarating Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, with soloist Pavel Kolesnikov (pictured), and narrators Edward and Freddie Fox (pictured) speaking lines from Hamlet to Shostakovich's music, and poetry with the Four Sea Interludes of Britten. Unmissable.
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A year-long celebration of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven in 1770. Political turmoil, social unrest ... the world into which Beethoven was born in 1770 may seem remote, but today's audiences recognise many of the emotions and much of the background that run through his vast output
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Music across the centuries will ring out at Southbank Centre in its new classical season from September 2019 to July 2020, with top international artists, favourite London musicians, including Chineke! Orchestra (pictured) and works old and new
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A bumper year opens with Don Giovanni's womanising brought to book, and there's more Mozart with The Magic Flute (pictured). Look out, too, for Joyce DiDonato in Agrippina and a family opera for Christmas, The Lost Thing.
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A year-long celebration of music written and, often, performed by women, from the Italian renaissance to the present day, with scores of events ahead.
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Catch supersoprano Natalya Romaniw in Madam Butterfly (pictured) in the 2019/20 season which features four operas about the Orpheus and Eurydice legend, plus classics by Puccini, Mozart, Dvorak and more....
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A wave of visiting world-class orchestras, celebrations for a big Beethoven year, and many exciting new commissions are highlights of the packed classical music season 2019/20 at the Barbican. Big draws include the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel (pictured)
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