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Outstanding. Week One Complete.

Outdoor dance performances. Dream interpretation. Literal ground-breaking theatre.

Last week, our first resident orchestra of 2025, NYO2, treated you to two fantastic concerts, with the young musicians also participating in a cultural exchange with our Youth Collective. On Sunday night, second resident orchestra NFM Leopoldinum performed Bizet’s Carmen Suite to five-star reviews (The Scotsman). Tonight they perform again to a sold-out Usher Hall in Benedetti & Sitkovetsky’s Tribute to Menuhin.

This week the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) arrives, our third resident orchestra. They're here for three spectacular concerts with tickets almost gone!

The World Premiere of Mary, Queen of Scots from Scottish Ballet comes to Festival Theatre stage on Saturday night.

Catch up on Week One highlights below:

The Reviews Are In

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Like theatre from a different planet"

– The Financial Times on Works and Days

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Remarkable"

– The Herald on Works and Days

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Transcendent, dazzling, occasionally stupefying”

– The Arts Desk on Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy

Coming Up This Week: From The Underworld to the Mountains, and the Queen of Scots

Orpheus and Eurydice
Wed 13 - Sat 16 Aug

Opera meets acrobatics. Electrifying.

Heartbroken Orpheus has the chance to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld. But there's one condition: he mustn’t look at her during their long journey home. Can he resist the temptation to gaze into his true love’s eyes?

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Visions and Voyages: Dive Deeper Into Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony
Thu 14 Aug, 7.30pm

Epic Oceans. Majestic waves. "Behold the Sea, itself." A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughn Williams was inspired by the composer's fascination with mystical poems by the American poet Walt Whitman.

Join the London Symphony Orchestra and their new Chief Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano, for this portrayal of the ocean’s strength and beauty.

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Book of Mountains and Seas
Thu 14 – Sat 16 Aug

A giant tries to capture the sun. A drowned princess seeks revenge on the ocean. Ten suns compete to light the Earth. Directed by Basil Twist, the designer of My Neighbour Totoro, Book of Mountains and Seas reminds us of the pressing need for a collective respect for nature.

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Bomsori Kim & Thomas Hoppe
Thu 14 Aug 2025, 11.00am

"The sheer vigour of her articulation was a wonder to behold, the creamy tone of her highest register and the extraordinary boom of the lower a phenomenon of sound projection." - Bachtrack

Don't miss this outstanding violin and piano recital at Queen's Hall.