Lights up on four friends who get together to play string quartets (wild boys!). History remembers two of them as the greatest composers who ever lived - but who are the other two?

Václav Luks conducts the original Christmas hit - Bach's Christmas Oratorio. A rare opportunity to hear all six parts performed over two nights. This is Bach at his most joyous in a work that celebrates the power of love.

The concluding instalment of Bach's Christmas Oratorio conducted by Václav Luks. A rare opportunity to hear all six parts performed over two nights. This is Bach at his most joyous in a work that celebrates the power of love.

Unrequited love and melodrama collide. Daudet’s play L’Arlésienne is propelled by Bizet’s intensely passionate music. Performed in a new translation and directed by Jeremy Sams, with Sir Mark Elder conducting.

John Butt conducts Bach's earliest surviving passion. An intense musical drama in which the eternal and mortal collide as the raw, human tragedy of Jesus' death plays out against the backdrop of divine history.

Sparkling solo concertos and vibrant ‘concerti con molti strumenti’ give wings to the collective virtuosity of the OAE.

Unrequited love and melodrama collide to make L’Arlésienne a must watch season opener. Propelled by Bizet’s intensely passionate music, conducted by Mark Elder, with all the on stage action in a new translation by Jeremy Sams.

It’s not NOT Opera. The Night Shift returns with an evening of duos, trios and quartets for strings by Mozart. Oh, and some arrangements of some of his most famous opera arias.

You are invited to an evening of stargazing, lullabies, hypnotic grounds and magical dreamscapes inspired by the spirit of Italo Calvino.

A real end of year treat as we present La Gamme, the final masterpiece by the extraordinary Marin Marais.