Festival Cities and the Crisis

Hofesh Shechter’s "Clowns" explores a macabre comedy of murder and desire, questioning the lengths to which we’ll go for entertainment.

A cosmic drama of light, life, and music. Haydn's "The Creation" is reborn in this dazzling new staging, fusing sacred music, theater, and stagecraft.

The ‘sheer visual sophistication’ of Annabel Arden’s Barbiere serves ‘a triumphant celebration of Rossini’s musical genius

Ketevan Kemoklidze leads as Rosina while the orchestra plays under the magical baton of the young principal guest conductor Andrea Battistoni.

Franz Welser-Möst leads the world premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch's "Intensity" alongside Dvořák’s joyful Symphony No.8.

The second part of Wagner's Ring Cycle, Die Walküre, takes us on a theatrical voyage into a world that is in a never- ending state of war.

★★★★★ 'Singular adventures for a new era.' — The Arts Desk. Pappano leads the LSO in Sibelius' Symphony No. 1 and a kaleidoscopic new work.

Waterfalls, glaciers, and a thunderous storm. Join the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a breathtaking performance of Strauss's "Alpine Symphony."

Witness the spectacle and power of Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti in a concert that brought opera to the masses on a starlit night in Rome.

Danger lurks in every note of this breathtaking revival of Bizet's scandalous 1875 opera, “Carmen.”