‘Wow is too small a word!’ (Broadway World) to describe My Neighbour Totoro, the ‘utterly spectacular’ (Telegraph), ‘remarkably beautiful’ (Financial Times) stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s beloved animated film. Winner of 6 Olivier Awards, this acclaimed production features ‘awe-inspiring’ (Time Out) large-scale puppetry and iconic songs from the film performed by a live band and singer.

My Neighbour Totoro

Gillian Lynne Theatre

Hannes Minnaar’s ‘adroitness in the most virtuoso pieces is matched by his patient expressivity in the more brooding ones’, wrote Gramophone in its review of the Dutch pianist’s utterly engrossing recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87. His sensitive, perfectly judged interpretation draws out the astonishing inventive wealth of one of the last century’s greatest keyboard compositions.

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Hannes Minnaar piano

Wigmore Hall

An all-star cast brings Damiano Michieletto’s white-hot production to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson and Ramona Zaharia in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas and Valentyn Dytiuk as the jealous and despairing Don José. Sesto Quatrini conducts Bizet’s electrifying and sensual score.

Carmen

Royal Opera House

Kristin Scott Thomas returns to the West End in a gripping new production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s poignant and piercing tragicomedy about a family on the brink of irreversible change.

The Cherry Orchard

Harold Pinter Theatre

RBAN party at RUST Nightclub celebrating their upcoming collaboration with RUST. DJ lineup: SELMA, Karlitas Way & Fuad. Free entrance until 00:00, 60 DKK 00:00-04:00. 21+.

RBAN – RUST Nightclub

RUST

The Shame Disco. DJ Reform94 throws a youth disco for adults, with the best/worst music from the nineties.

Reform94

Union Scene

A free, family-friendly street dance on the west side of the Stadium of Fire site, featuring a Miner Music DJ spinning tunes from across the decades, held after the fireworks on Independence Day.

Street Dance: Post-Stadium of Fire Celebration

LaVell Edwards Stadium

Closing reading of the Queer Literature Festival Munich with Sophia Merwald, moderated by Franziska Setare Koohestani. Reading from the debut novel "Sperrgut".

Closing Reading: Sophia Merwald "Sperrgut"

Gasteig HP8

Academy students perform Beethoven’s trio dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria.

Trio Avant

Royal Academy of Music

Shakespeare’s great tragedy and Radiohead’s critically acclaimed album collide for a mesmerising live experience that fuses theatre, music and movement.

Hamlet Hail to the Thief

Barbican Theatre

We’re delighted to welcome pianist Richard Goode to work with Guildhall keyboard players in this free, open masterclass.

Piano Masterclass with Richard Goode

Milton Court Concert Hall

The crew of the Dogstar are dropping like flies. Whalers with no whales left to catch, they have been icebound for months and a whiff of mutiny is in the air as they look to cast blame. But something strange is happening. Are the crew’s heavenly visions a symptom of scurvy, a result of the endless polar night – or a chance at salvation?

Dogstar

Hampstead Theatre

The Royal Ballet honours its founder Dame Ninette de Valois, who was known within the Company as ‘Madam’, including performances of excerpts from signature De Valois ballets as well as conversation, discussion and film delving into the enduring impact of this seminal figure on The Royal Ballet and the art form. This event is co-curated by Director Kevin O’Hare and Principal Guest Artist Lauren Cuthbertson.

Madam

This programme is a celebration of John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach’s legacy for the lute which the guitar is very fortunate to have inherited. Dowland and Bach were deeply inspired by the sensibilities of their time and their music offers a soundscape that retains the plucked nature of the lute whilst presenting these sensibilities with a different palette of colours unique to the guitar.

Samrat Majumder guitar

Matilda The Musical is the multi-award winning musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company, inspired by the beloved book by the incomparable Roald Dahl.

Matilda The Musical

Cambridge Theatre

‘Here is enshrined the soul of …’ Elgar never revealed the inspiration behind his Violin Concerto, but the music tells its own story – a tale of whispered secrets and soaring romance that could have been written for the glorious sound of violinist Christian Tetzlaff.

Karina Canellakis Conducts Beethoven

Southbank Centre

The Parliament Choir is an autonomous body in Parliament under the auspices of the Speaker in the House of Commons and Lord Speaker, and is open to all who work in Parliament. Founded in 2000 by Lord Filkin and Simon Over, it was created to offer those working in Palace of Westminster, the opportunity to sing together despite the demands of parliamentary life.

Mozart Requiem

Smith Square Hall

Continuing our exploration of Handel oratorio in 'staged' concert performances, Christophe Rousset brings his trademark operatic panache to this transcendental work. The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are joined by an international cast of soloists, each of them acclaimed for their thrilling performances of Handel.

London in 1750: rocked by earthquakes, and stunned by the 65-year-old Handel’s penultimate oratorio. The adopted Englishman had abandoned his tried-and-tested Old Testament formula for a work set in Christian times, and ending not with triumph and fanfare, but the minor-key death of hero and heroine.

The 18th-century audience shunned Theodora, but 225 years later this story of devotion and martyrdom is firmly recognised as a masterpiece, containing some of Handel’s greatest arias (‘As with rosy steps the morn’; ‘With darkness deep’; ´Angels ever bright and fair’), and choruses which range from the rollicking to the pious to the anguished.

The Monteverdi Choir is amongst the world’s greatest exponents of Handel oratorio, and Theodora requires the choir’s whole expressive spectrum, stretching from the piety of oppressed Christians, to the orgiastic revels of Roman pagans.

Handel: Theodora

Julio Prestes

Salle Gaveau

Teatro Municipal de Lima

Teatro Solís

Teatro Colón

St Martin-in-the-Fields

Schwarzman Centre

Auditorium Parco della Musica

Formed in 1986 in Leeds, The Mission quickly carved out a niche in the post-punk and gothic rock scenes. Their sound combined intricate atmospheric guitar work with singer Wayne Hussey’s emotive and haunting vocals to deliver a truly anthemic repertoire.

The Mission: Gods Own Medicine 40th Anniversary Shows

O2 Forum Kentish Town

Recently named Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2025 Jazz FM Awards and Jazz Ensemble of the year at the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2025, Mark Kavuma has a unique and distinctive trumpet sound. Over the last decade he has established himself as a key player in London’s rapidly expanding jazz scene.

Late Late Show hosted by Mark Kavuma's Banger Factory

Ronnie Scott's

In 2026, Jupiter celebrates John Dowland on the 400th anniversary of his death. Born in 1563, the composer and lutenist left us one of the most complete repertoires for his instrument, as well as numerous lyrical pieces contained in songbooks: the Songs of Ayres. Following the recording of Songs of Passion, an album released in September 2025 by Warner Classics and devoted in part to the composer’s passion arias, the ensemble honours him with a major programme that will include several excerpts from the songbooks and Lachrimae – compositions for viol consort – at the crossroads of poetry, lyricism and instrumental music. It will be performed by four singers, five gambists and lutenist Thomas Dunford, for whom ‘John Dowland was the John Lennon of the 16th Century.’ The popular dimension of his compositions is thus honoured, with a desire to highlight the different characters of music that is at once joyful, playful, mysterious, introspective, meditative and even amorous...

Thomas Dunford artistic director, lute; Jupiter Ensemble

Prepare yourself for vulgar, visceral and vampy renditions of the long lost ‘numbers’ that lurk in the depths of our minds – a seemingly never-ending revue of our pathetic existence, an infinite infernal cabaret of our own construction. The show must go on, no matter the cost.

It’s Got Legs!!!!!!!

‘Here is enshrined the soul of …’ Elgar never revealed the inspiration behind his Violin Concerto, but the music tells its own story – a tale of whispered secrets and soaring romance that could have been written for the glorious sound of violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Beethoven’s Fifth is a bit more direct: its world-famous opening is just the start of a truly epic struggle from tragedy to triumph. Written as his hearing failed and his world narrowed, the Symphony turned personal loss into defiant purpose, finding meaning through music when almost everything else was gone. And no-one knows what to expect, just yet, from Dai Fujikura’s new piece, though on his current form it should be very striking indeed. A night to remember from the LPO’s dynamic Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis.

Karina Canellakis conducts Beethoven

For more than three decades, Amy Wadge has been quietly shaping the emotional vocabulary of modern pop. If you have fallen in love, fallen apart, or found a shard of yourself in a song at any point over the past 30 years, chances are she had a hand in it.

Events in London

My Neighbour Totoro

LW Theatres

Hannes Minnaar piano

Wigmore Hall

Carmen

Royal Opera House

The Cherry Orchard

Harold Pinter Theatre

RBAN – RUST Nightclub

Rust

Reform94

Union Scene

Street Dance: Post-Stadiu...

America's Freedom Festival at Provo

Closing Reading: Sophia M...

Gasteig HP8

Trio Avant

Royal Academy of Music

Hamlet Hail to the Thief

Barbican Centre

Piano Masterclass with Ri...

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Dogstar

Hampstead Theatre

Madam

Royal Opera House

Samrat Majumder guitar

Wigmore Hall

Matilda The Musical

LW Theatres

Karina Canellakis Conduct...

Southbank Centre

Mozart Requiem

Sinfonia Smith Square

Handel: Theodora

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

The Mission: Gods Own Med...

O2 Forum Kentish Town

Late Late Show hosted by ...

Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club

Thomas Dunford artistic d...

Wigmore Hall

It’s Got Legs!!!!!!!

Southbank Centre

Karina Canellakis conduct...

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Amy Wadge

LW Theatres