Scottish legends and famed walkers of 500 miles, The Proclaimers, are hitting the road later this year with what promises to be their finest tour yet. With their 13th studio album in the making, twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid will be performing shows across the UK, playing their latest offerings as well as some of their best-loved hits.

The Proclaimers

New Theatre Oxford

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.

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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

Fishies Week 4

O2 Academy Oxford

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

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

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_ZQW5C2pw&amp;t=2s

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

Marios Papadopoulos conducts his first concert of the season and brings with him one of the most riveting pieces in the history of the symphony – Tchaikovsky’s deeply personal essay on inner demons, the torment of love and the irrepressible strength of the human spirit. María Dueñas, the violinist who seems to have captured the zeitgeist in her performances like none other, joins the Orchestra for the first of Prokofiev’s violin concertos, a work mingling tenderness with biting sarcasm as only Prokofiev could. The concert opens with the breakthrough work by the 23-year-old Doreen Carwithen from 1947, her swashbuckling overture inspired by John Masefield’s novel One Damn Thing After Another.

Tchaikovsky Five

University of Oxford

Following a sell-out first leg of the tour, The Feeling return to perform Twelve Stops and Home in full across the UK.

The Feeling

Scotland’s Pygmy Twylyte formed in 2018, and delight audiences with a core body of classic Frank Zappa material, complemented by a rotation of more obscure cuts.

Pygmy Twylyte perform the music of Frank Zappa

One of the most famous touring groups across the country, Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra has been entertaining audiences since its formation in 1994. Evolving over the years to the stunning 2-piece it is today, don't miss the hootenanny when Jools & Co (including unmissable vocalist Ruby Turner) come to a stage near you!

Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra

California pop-punk band 60 Juno join forces with Toronto indie pop four-piece cootie catcher join forces as they head out on their UK tour.

60 Juno & Cootie Catcher

British rapper, producer and songwriter Dizzee Rascal heads out on the ‘We Want Bass 2026 UK Tour’ with his conversational, clipped flow that toggles between menace and mischief, raw diarist lyrics and festival-sized hooks.

Dizzee Rascal

Welsh National Opera’s Family Concert is back with a vibrant and welcoming introduction to live orchestral music.

Family Concert

Venue Cymru

Wales Millennium Centre

Theatre Royal Plymouth

Mayflower Theatre

In this powerful double bill, two extraordinary works of the 20th century are brought together in a shared world of ritual, mystery and psychological intensity.

Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex Bartok + Stravinsky

The Rifles celebrate 20 years together as they embark upon a very special anniversary tour during which they will play their debut album No Love Lost in full, alongside other fan favourites.

The Rifles

In the Latin Quarter of Paris, four young artists live for the moment, sharing what little they have; chasing big dreams and laughing through the cold. When Rodolfo meets Mimì, a quiet seamstress with a fading light, their connection is instant and unforgettable. But in a world shaped by poverty and passion, love burns brightly but all too briefly.

La bohème Puccini

Indie Fridays

Irish trio Chasing Abbey are known for their groundbreaking fusion of electronic production and Celtic influences, in particular Irish traditional music. At the forefront of the Irish language revival, Chasing Abbey use this beautiful ancient language to deliver their lyrics with maximum weight.

Chasing Abbey

Definitely Mightbe (A Tribute to Oasis)

Soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra come to the Holywell Music Room for flute-led chamber music that celebrates heritage while also reflecting on loss. English composer Arnold Bax sympathised profoundly with the Irish rebels who rose up against British rule in 1916 and faced terrible consequences. His Elegiac Trio reflects on all that was lost in that episode just as Guy Ropartz’s Prélude, Marine et Chansons enshrines the composer’s love for Brittany. Light and joy come courtesy of Roussel’s bright, compact and melodious Sérénade and a Flute Quartet by Mozart which demands spectacular virtuosity from every instrument.

Mozart, Debussy and Roussel

Wadham College

Royal Blood: ALBUM LAUNCH OUTSTORE - LIVE PERFORMANCE

Join Jake Bugg at O2 Academy Oxford for a special outstore celebrating the release of his seventh album, Alamo.

Events in Oxford next month

The Proclaimers

New Theatre Oxford

Handel: Theodora

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Fishies Week 4

O2 Academy Oxford

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets...

O2 Academy Oxford

Street Dance: Post-Stadiu...

America's Freedom Festival at Provo

Closing Reading: Sophia M...

Gasteig HP8

The Artelize Podcast Pres...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast: 'Am...

Artelize

Tchaikovsky Five

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

The Feeling

O2 Academy Oxford

Pygmy Twylyte perform the...

O2 Academy Oxford

Jools Holland and His Rhy...

New Theatre Oxford

60 Juno & Cootie Catcher

O2 Academy Oxford

Dizzee Rascal

O2 Academy Oxford

Family Concert

Welsh National Opera

Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedi...

Welsh National Opera

The Rifles

O2 Academy Oxford

La bohème Puccini

Welsh National Opera

Indie Fridays

O2 Academy Oxford

Chasing Abbey

O2 Academy Oxford

Definitely Mightbe (A Tri...

O2 Academy Oxford

Mozart, Debussy and Rouss...

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Blood: ALBUM LAUNCH...

O2 Academy Oxford

Jake Bugg Album Launch: I...

O2 Academy Oxford