Birmingham Royal Ballet revives Sir Peter Wright and Galina Samsova’s glorious journey into Swan Lake – with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia performing Tchaikovsky’s superb music live alongside BRB’s spectacular dancers.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet - Swan Lake

Birmingham Hippodrome

Join the Alexandra Theatre in their Piano Bar for Coffee, Cake and Cadenzas – the theatre’s chamber concert series given by our students.

Classical Pianist - Ciara Thompson

The Alexandra

The price of reputation, the cost of truth: the revelation of a woman’s secret and scandalous past comes back to haunt her in this classic comedy. Oscar Wilde’s biting satire explores the moral hypocrisy, injustice and double standards of the Victorian era. By turns funny and dramatic, Wilde’s sparkling wit and sharp observations on human nature, morality and the consequences of actions still resonate today.

A Woman of No Importance

Crescent Theatre

Seating at the CBSO Centre is unreserved.

*For visitors with access requirements who need assistance from a companion in order to attend, a complimentary Essential Companion ticket can be added to your basket. Find out more about accessibility at CBSO Centre.

If you are interested in making a booking for more than 9 people for this event, please call 0121 616 6500 and ask for the CBSO’s marketing department, or email marketing@cbso.co.uk

Live at the Centre: Steve Reich at 90

CBSO Centre

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The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFe6mW6x9pc

The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Sylvia Pankhurst – fearless, flawed, and unforgettable. The untold story of the rebellious middle child of Emmeline Pankhurst takes centre stage in this irresistible hip hop, funk and soul musical that moves your feet and fires your spirit.

Sylvia

Join us for the electrifying, Olivier-Award nominated Sylvia by renowned choreographer and storyteller Kate Prince. Starring Olivier-Award winning powerhouse Beverley Knight, this irresistible blend of hip hop, funk and soul tells the untold story of the rebellious middle child of Emmeline Pankhurst. This is more than a musical – it’s a manifesto to shake the rafters!

Fundraising Gala at Sylvia

Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Car Man is back! Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, The Car Man has one of the most thrilling and instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertoire.

Matthew Bourne's The Car Man

One of country music’s newest and most promising stars, Warren Zeiders has already made an undeniable mark on the genre following the release of his album Relapse, Lies & Betrayal. Now the Pennsylvania native heads out on his 2026 world tour.

Warren Zeiders World Tour 2026

O2 Academy Birmingham

A West End and Broadway hit, this masterfully constructed thriller moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene.

Wait Until Dark

Written by Willy Russell, the legendary Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences.

Blood Brothers

Made You Look is a visceral and explosive one-man poetry show interrogating masculinity and what it means to be an immigrant in a Britain growing increasingly hostile towards minorities and women.

Made You Look

Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Guest artist François Leleux joins the woodwind section for an afternoon of tuneful gems.
Not every oboist is described as “larger than life”, but then not every oboist is the irrepressible François Leleux! Today he joins our woodwind section as first among equals, in joyous mini masterpieces by Dvořák, Gounod and the young Richard Strauss. Expect sparkling melodies and playful wit: here in the CBSO Centre, it’ll feel close enough to touch.

Centre Stage: Serenades with François Leleux

Doing it for the love of music, legendary band Fat Freddy's Drop are returning to the stage in 2026 to perform their ground-breaking debut album Based On A True Story.

The 51 dates across Australia, Aotearoa, Europe and UK will be Freddy’s first shows following the sudden death of founding band member Chris ‘MU’ Faiumu. The band is united in its decision to continue with this long-planned tour. 

Based On A True Story was independently released in 2005, an album of 10 fresh slices of future funk, with surprises, fakes & freaky sidesteps. 

Fat Freddy's Drop: Celebration of the 21st anniversary of Based on a True Story

A spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s multi award-winning musical CATS is coming to Birmingham Hippodrome.

Cats

Eight million miles from Earth, a mysterious distress call crackles through the ether and draws Flint, a haunted space ranger, towards the Odyssey – an ageing research vessel in the grip of a nightmare. Boarding the craft, he finds a failing ship, a missing crew, and a deadly force running out of control…

The Void

Music for an autumn day with Brahms’ haunting Clarinet Quintet.
Brahms had retired from music when he met the clarinettist of his dreams. Result: this magical Clarinet Quintet, in which melodies curl like woodsmoke, and passionate sorrows burst like wildfire into golden autumn afternoons. In short, it’s a masterpiece, and with our own Section Leader Clarinet Oliver Janes leading a team of colleagues, it’s 40 minutes of magic.

Centre Stage: Brahms' Clarinet Quintet

England. A remote country house. A young governess, hired to care for two seemingly angelic children, begins what appears to be an idyllic new life. Yet there is something about the children that hints at a darker presence.

The Turn of the Screw

Shostakovich goes to town, as we perform his magnificent Piano Quintet.
If you enjoy Shostakovich’s symphonies, you’re going to love his Piano Quintet. Big, bold and written with the same emotional force as the Fifth Symphony, it’s an unforgettable introduction to his chamber music, and a perfect upbeat to next week’s performance of the War Requiem by his great friend Britten. A haunting Czech miniature sets the mood.

Centre Stage: Shostakovich's Piano Quintet

When her brother falls foul of the state’s rigid morality laws, Isabella is sent to plead for his life in Shakespeare's razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption.

Measure for Measure

This event is for primary music teachers, music leads and classroom teachers. No previous musical experience is necessary. The session will be led by Nancy Evans, BCMG Director of Learning & Participation and all attendees will recieve a free copy of the Listen Imagine Compose Primary Toolkit. More information about Listen Imagine Compose Primary can be found HERE.

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