What's on this week: classical music in London
Fatma Said at OSLO Hackney, February 2023
The last of the summer series around London wrapped up over the weekend, as the BBC Proms came to a close on Saturday and the noisenights summer residency hosted its final night in Dalston on Sunday.
That means we’re back into gig season: the autumn noisenights kick-off on Sunday with star soprano Fatma Said returning with a new programme to Lafayette King’s Cross, Counter Chamber’s series in Hoxton bar Folklore starts up again, and more.
There are still a couple of festivals which haven’t quite wrapped up: Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival continues this week with its penultimate production, the world premiere of Lisa Logan’s Brontë The Opera, and Bold Tendencies’ season ends with a bang as The Philharmonia perform Mahler. All details below…
12 - 16 September, 7.30pm
A brand new opera about the Brontë sisters, based on a play by Polly Teale and adapted by Lisa Logan, premieres at Grimeborn Festival
Wednesday 13 September, 7pm
Counter Chamber’s instrumental and electronic series returns to Folklore Hoxton to showcase music by David Julyan, Anna Phoebe, and Soundbox Ensemble
Saturday 16 September, 7.30pm
The Bold Tendencies 2023 live season closes with the Philharmonia Orchestra returning to perform Gustav Mahler's monumental First Symphony
Sunday 17 September, 8pm
Multi-award-winning soprano Fatma Said performs French and Arabic classical songs in London's eclectic new live music venue, Lafayette
Tuesday 3 October, 8pm
Guitarist Thibaut Garcia launches his latest album El Bohemio, a tribute to the Paraguayan guitar virtuoso and composer Agustín Barrios
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