2023/24 Southbank Centre Season
BOOKING INFORMATION
General booking for all concerts is now open.
"What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from."
Haydn First and Last
Wed 25 Oct 2023 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallWe open our 2023 / 24 season with a concert framed by symphonies from the beginning and end of Haydn’s career, tracing his passage from young trailblazer to the greatest composer in the world.
Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3
Sat 2 Dec 2023 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallMasaaki Suzuki, the acclaimed founder of the Bach Collegium Japan, joins us to collaborate on an energetic, thought-provoking new production of Bach’s great Christmas masterpiece.
Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts 4-6
Sun 3 Dec 2023 | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallThe trumpets sound out for the glorious conclusion of JS Bach’s masterful Christmas Oratorio with Masaaki Suzuki.
The Fairy Queen: Three Wishes
Wed 17 Jan | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallThe Fairy Queen is throwing a huge midsummer night's party. Big. Huge. You’re invited.
Mozart: Love is in the air
Thu 22 Feb | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallA celebration of the prodigious gifts of Mozart with award-winning soprano Louise Alder in a selection of virtuosic operatic and concert arias. The illustrious Riccardo Minasi directs...
Bach Easter Oratorio
Wed 27 Mar | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallOlivier Award-winner Peter Whelan directs Bach’s Easter Oratorio, a piece that packs a breathtaking mix of public celebration, personal devotion and tight psychological drama.
Sibelius Symphony No. 5
Wed 3 Apr | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Royal Festival HallWe continue our daring quest at the borderline between Romanticism and Modernism. We team up again with conductor Maxim Emelyanychev in a programme crowned by Sibelius’ awe-inspiring Symphony No. 5.
Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies – Nos.1&4
Wed 24 Apr | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallOur Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies series opens with three youthful works showing the composer at his most vibrant and colourful.
Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies – Nos. 3 & 5
Thu 25 Apr | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallThe Mendelssohn cycle continues with a profound statement of devotion and the composer’s last completed symphony.
Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies – No. 2
Fri 26 Apr | 7pm London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth HallFor the climax of our Mendelssohn week, András Schiff and the Orchestra are joined by Alina Ibragimova for the ever-popular Violin Concerto which is followed by the extraordinary ‘Lobgesang’ symphony.
