Name: Candlelit Carols
Start: 2026-12-22T19:30:00
Location: Barbican Centre

Steven Devine

Harriet Eyley

Barbican Centre

Mozart Festival Orchestra

Hailed as five-star 'pure theatrical escapism' by the Times and 'studded with diamond performances from a top-notch cast' (Financial Times), High Society is the most swell party of the year.

High Society The Musical

Following a sold-out appearance at Brixton Electric in November 2025, Marcus Brown, aka Nourished by Time, makes his Hall debut. Brown has created a singular sonic world shaped by his hometown’s rich and eclectic musical heritage where jazz, punk, indie, hip hop, electronic and R&B collide in raw harmony. On The Passionate Ones, Brown tackles love, labour, existentialism, dreams, disillusionment, and hope through the lens of meta modernism, documenting an American story of an artist using their vices to keep them afloat while they follow their dreams.

Nourished by Time + Florence Sinclair

Based on a medieval tale, Tristan and Isolde is told through music that seems to transcend time and space. Wallow in the heady, ambiguous harmonies and drifting melodies that set Wagner’s opera apart as one of the most progressive of its day.

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Experience a live concert within origo, Delcy Morelos’ monumental earthwork installation on the Sculpture Court, in an intimate performance surrounded by soil, sound and shifting light.

Shovel Dance Collective

Side-Eye III+ showcases Pat Metheny’s enduring dedication to mentoring the next generation of jazz innovators while exploring fresh sonic territories. He is joined by Chris Fishman (piano and keyboards), Jermaine Paul (bass) and Joe Dyson (drums). Together, this stellar line-up brings a bold, genre-defying sound that reflects both deep musical tradition and fearless experimentation.

Pat Metheny: Side-Eye III+

Join ORII COMMUNITY in celebrating Pan-Africanism through a multi-disciplinary club experience, featuring DJs, live musicians, dancers channelling the ancestral spirit of togetherness through sound.

anyone can dance w/ORII

This summer, the hotly anticipated world premiere of Death Note: The Musical arrives to our theatre for 50 performances only.

Death Note

Barbican Theatre

A dramatic and terrifying requiem juxtaposed by a beautiful gloria dedicated to all the heroes of Ukraine, performed in the iconic St Paul's Cathedral, a symbol of shining resilience.

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Verdi Requiem

St. Paul's Cathedral London

A new, cutting-edge work celebrating the voices of six trailblazing women poets across a millennium of Chinese history through the power of choral theatre.

Tangram x SANSARA: Chronicle 时•录

LSO St Luke's

Sierra’s Avian Mirrors and Doolittle’s Field Guide bring us into the world of birdsong mimicry with a rich interplay between birds, while Bauckholt’s Doppelbelichtung presents photographically accurate transcriptions of bird calls with great intensity. Terranova’s Rainbow Dust in the Sky and Grime’s To see the summer sky take us into the evocative world of birds with msuic that is both ethereal and fierce.

Lisa Robertson: Cànan nan Eun

Delicately fingerpicked guitar and soft-focus vocals fold into a rich, enveloping sound, where piano ballads, glowing brass and airy rhythms gather. At times feeling grand and orchestral, threaded with bossa nova ease, gentle psychedelia and jazz inflections – all while drifting through gentle, lilting pop melodies akin to Karen Carpenter or Carole King. Vivid imagery flickers through the songs, from sunlit water to ceremonial rituals, with a lyricism that carries both tenderness and quiet resolve.

Bedouine

Milton Court Concert Hall

An opera. A ghost story. A love story. Black boy joy and Black boy nightmares. Our Eyes Looking for God is an exceptional and vital work written during the 2020 global racial reckoning. Writer/Director TD Moyo uses the operatic form, with it's drama, music, staging and instrumentals, to tell an all-encompassing story about identity, state violence and love.

Our Eyes Looking for God

Step into the gentle glow of candlelight and experience the true spirit of the season with Candlelit Carols, a heart-warming evening of music.