Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Southbank Centre

July 2024

  • Bryn Terfel in red leathers as Gianni Schicchi

    The week in classical: Double Bryn Terfel; Siwan Rhys; Bozzini Quartet; My Beloved Man – review

  • Pushing the boundaries … Geoffrey Paterson.

    London Sinfonietta/Paterson review – bespoke instruments and microtones in all-Mexican programme

June 2024

  • Chaka Khan.

    Chaka Khan review – queen of funk sounds as majestic as ever

  • Nadia Beugre: L'Homme Rare

    Nadia Beugré: L’Homme Rare review – no muscle is left untwerked

April 2024

  • ‘Forget about stage and audience, to mix and experience the absurdity, with humour and sarcasm’ … Kopitchanskaja performs with the LSO in 2023.

    ‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’: why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat

  • Elaine Bedell stands in a small garden on the South Bank, with the Centre and the London Eye ferris wheel visible in the background behind her

    Observer business profile
    Running the cash-strapped Southbank Centre: ‘We feared Cate Blanchett would get stuck in a lift!’

  • Salman Rushdie wearing an eye patch

    Salman Rushdie warns young people against forgetting value of free speech

  • Edward Gardner, Seong-Jin Cho and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Gardner/LPO review – tautly controlled Tippett, and whoops for Seong-Jin Cho’

March 2024

  • Peter Whelan conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Israel in Egypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

    The week in classical: Israel in Egypt; James McVinnie & Tristan Perich: Infinity Gradient; Bluebeard’s Castle – review

  • Colin Currie Group-

    Colin Currie Group review – Turnage’s percussion sextet is varied and vivid

February 2024

  • (La)Horde’s Roommates is at Southbank Centre, London, in March.

    ‘It’s like being on a love boat’: the dance trio embraced by Sam Smith and Madonna

    After choreographing the video for Unholy and the queen of pop’s Celebration tour, French collective (La)Horde are taking a wildly eclectic show to London
  • Eilm Chan conducts the Philharmonia during the UK premiere of Bryce Dessner’s concerto.

    Philharmonia/LPO review – brilliant new piano concertos by Dessner and Coll

    Bryce Dessner’s ebullient concerto, equal parts rock and Reich, was dazzlingly performed by Alice Sara Ott and the Philharmonia, while Francisco Coll’s glinting, flamenco-tinged piece had its world premiere with the LPO and Javier Perianes
  • Even stranger things … Tara Donovan, Untitled (Mylar), 2011-2018, which is at the Hayward show.

    It’s alive! It’s alive! The giant scary sculptures made of bubbles, blobs and body parts

    Our writer finds the funny side of sculpture at an unsettling new show called When Forms Come Alive – which features orbs, sacs, satellites, peduncles, piles of gloop and even a pink rollercoaster

January 2024

  • Anne-Sophie Mutter

    LPO/Heyward review – Mutter makes Hollywood legend’s Violin Concerto sparkle and fizz

    Anne-Sophie Mutter gave the UK premiere of John Williams’ second Violin Concerto in a concert of the US composer’s music that placed the violin front and centre

December 2023

  • Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.

    OAE/Suzuki review – Bach’s Christmas Oratorio breathtakingly performed with tangible elation

    The mix of exactitude and exaltation was perfectly judged by Masaaki Suzuki and the Age of Enlightenment orchestra and singers in this outstanding rendition of the first three cantatas

November 2023

  • Strong, joyful movement … Zona Franca at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

    Zona Franca review – a fleet-footed favela dance party

  • Gifted generation … Auden and Britten.

    A hotbed of English radicalism? Auden, Britten and the unsung glory of the Group Theatre

October 2023

  • A scene from Nutcracker at Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, Southbank Centre. Directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie

    Sugar plum jazz: The Nutcracker at London’s new Tuff Nutt club – in pictures

    Go backstage at Drew McOnie’s swinging version of the festive favourite, staged in a pop-up nightspot on the South Bank

September 2023

  • Beate Mordal and Cameron Shahbazi in Picture a day like this

    The week in classical: Picture a day like this; Peter Grimes; Carol Williams: Mad Rush – review

    Sparkling musical invention pierces the gloom of George Benjamin’s mysterious new chamber opera; Britten’s masterpiece holds its own at ENO; and one woman, 7,866 pipes and resounding fun

August 2023

  • A new festive favourite? Drew McOnie’s The Nutcracker.

    New version of The Nutcracker explores ‘tough nut’ masculinity

    Choreographer Drew McOnie’s version of the festive sweet-treat ballet will have a male hero and aims to ‘represent those who felt it wasn’t for them’
About 175 results for Southbank Centre
1234...
  翻译: