Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Thursday 15 July 2021
When Handel wrote Aci, Galatea e Polifemo he was in his mid-twenties and living in Italy.
New season for 2021-22: The Wilderness Pleases
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Tickets now on sale for the first two concerts of our new season at the Southbank Centre.
Sea Voyages and Salvation: Roderick Williams sings baroque cantatas with us
Tuesday 8 June 2021
Roderick Williams joins us on 8 June for our latest OAE Player concert.
Performing the Passion
Wednesday 23 March 2022
The practice of incorporating the story of Christ's Passion within the services of Holy Week goes back many hundreds of years.
BEETHOVEN'S FIVE PIANO CONCERTOS
Tuesday 31 May 2022
Writer Jessica Duchen looks at the place of Beethoven's piano concertos in his creative life.
Saint-Saëns: The Man and His Music
Friday 13 January 2023
How well do we know Camille Saint-Saëns?
Storm and Stress
Thursday 29 September 2022
We take a look beneath the tumultuous surface of Haydn's Symphony No. 44 and the so-called 'Nelson' Mass.
The C90: Sound the Trumpets!
Friday 16 September 2022
10 September marked Henry Purcell’s birthday (roughly). So we've decided to celebrate this greatest of English composers with a playlist.
From ancient ballads: putting Coleridge and Purcell together
Tuesday 27 September 2022
Katharina Spreckelsen explains why we've put together a composer and a poet who live over a hundred years apart.
Angels and monsters: a life singing Handel
Monday 30 January 2023
Ian Bostridge introduces the very personal selection of arias for our Handel Around the World concert.
