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Classical Pride: Voices of Joy & Sorrow
choir and orchestra on the Barbican stage with colourful lights in the background.
Barbican

Classical Pride: Voices of Joy & Sorrow

in partnership with Gilead Sciences

Friday 4 July 2025 • 7.30pm

Classical Pride returns with the LSO, Jamie Barton, and Cameron Shahbazi in a powerful programme featuring Heggie, Higdon, Tchaikovsky, and more.

Strauss' Salome
Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the LSO
Barbican

Strauss' Salome

Sir Antonio Pappano

Friday 11 July 2025 • 7pm

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts a concert performance of Strauss’ scandalous opera Salome, with the brilliant soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role.

Limited Tickets

Musical Storytelling
Toddlers with their parents and guardians, sitting on the floor and laughing at a joke in the audience of a Musical Storytelling Concert for Under-5s.
Fountain Room

Musical Storytelling

For Under-5s

Sunday 13 July 2025 • 10.30am

LSO musicians retell a children’s story through music, offering younger children a chance to experience a live performance. Dance and sing your way through the concert as the instruments bring the tale to life.

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Musical Storytelling
Toddlers with their parents and guardians, sitting on the floor and watching a Musical Storytelling Concert for Under-5s.
Fountain Room

Musical Storytelling

For Under-5s

Sunday 13 July 2025 • 12pm

LSO musicians retell a children’s story through music, offering younger children a chance to experience a live performance. Dance and sing your way through the concert as the instruments bring the tale to life.

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Strauss' Salome
Sir Antonio Pappano and LSO musicians facing the audience on the Barbican stage, at the end of a performance.
Barbican

Strauss' Salome

Sir Antonio Pappano

Sunday 13 July 2025 • 7pm

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts a concert performance of Strauss’ scandalous opera Salome, with the brilliant soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role.

LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers' Scheme Workshops
LSO Musicians at LSO Panufnik Scheme Workshop 2023 at LSO St Luke's
Blackheath Halls

LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers' Scheme Workshops

LSO Discovery

Monday 14 July 2025 • 10.30am

In these free public workshops, witness a pivotal point in the process of writing a new three-minute orchestral piece, as the LSO play works by the latest cohort of Panufnik composers.

On Tour at the Edinburgh International Festival: Beethoven & Shostakovich
Sir Antonio Pappano and LSO musicians facing the audience on the Barbican stage, at the end of a performance.

On Tour at the Edinburgh International Festival: Beethoven & Shostakovich

Sir Antonio Pappano

Tuesday 12 August 2025 • 7.30pm

Experience the power of two show-stopping symphonies at the Edinburgh International Festival, with insight from Sir Antonio Pappano and Nicola Benedetti.

On Tour at the Edinburgh International Festival: Britten, Vaughan Williams & Elgar
Sir Antonio Pappano photographed against a grey background, sat in a chair and looking away from the camera into the distance.
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

On Tour at the Edinburgh International Festival: Britten, Vaughan Williams & Elgar

Sir Antonio Pappano, Ian Bostridge & LSO Musicians

Wednesday 13 August 2025 • 11am

Ian Bostridge joins Sir Antonio Pappano and LSO musicians for a programme of Britten and more at the Edinburgh International Festival.

On Tour at Edinburgh International Festival: Vaughan Williams
A violinist performs a solo in front of an attentive orchestra conductor and orchestra members in a concert hall setting.

On Tour at Edinburgh International Festival: Vaughan Williams

Sir Antonio Pappano, Vilde Frang & London Symphony Chorus

Thursday 14 August 2025 • 7.30pm

Join the LSO and conductor Sir Antonio Pappano at the Edinburgh International Festival for a programme of early 20th-century music with Vilde Frang.

On Tour at the Edinburgh International Festival: Puccini’s Suor Angelica
Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the LSO during a performance with Carolina López Moreno standing and singing to the left of him

On Tour at the Edinburgh International Festival: Puccini’s Suor Angelica

Sir Antonio Pappano

Saturday 16 August 2025 • 7pm

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Giacomo Puccini’s heartfelt opera.

LSO Strings at Bold Tendencies
Benjamin Marquise Gilmore playing the violin, pictured looking down at his music stand
Bold Tendencies

LSO Strings at Bold Tendencies

Saturday 30 August 2025 • 7.30pm

An evening of works for strings, in the LSO's first performance in Peckham's concrete concert hall.

Season Opening: Bernstein and Copland
Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the LSO on the Barbican stage, holding a baton, with LSO string players in the foreground of the image and audience members in the background.
Barbican

Season Opening: Bernstein and Copland

Sir Antonio Pappano

Sunday 14 September 2025 • 7pm

Dramatic, emotionally intense American symphonies, to start the 2025/26 season: Bernstein's 'Kaddish' and Copland's Symphony No 3, with Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano on the podium.