Classical & Opera

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• Free weekly digest of the best London has to offer from events to latest openings and competitions

  Alex Barlow,
  newsletter editor

• Barbican Hall
• Cadogan Hall
• English National Opera
• Kings Place
• Purcell Room
• Queen Elizabeth Hall
• Royal Festival Hall
• Royal Opera House
• St James' Church
• St John's Smith Square
• St Martin-in-the-Fields
• Wigmore Hall

• What's the Score? Your classical music questions answered

  

  Concert pianist and professor at Trinity College of Music, Karl Lutchmayer answers your classical music queries

• Michael Nyman: interview

  East End boy and - having written classic scores for Peter Greenaway films and ‘The Piano’...

• Sir Simon Rattle: interview

  It takes a rather special conductor to drag Time Out’s classical editor Jonathan Lennie away...

• Nigel Kennedy: interview

  Nigel Kennedy talks to Time Out about why it has taken him 21 years to play the Proms again

• Meet the orchestra

  Find your way around a symphony orchestra with Time Out's weekly series of interviews with some...

• Sir Harrison Birtwistle: interview

  Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s latest opera, ‘The Minotaur’, is premiered this week. Time Out...

• Daniel Barenboim: interview

  Time Out chats with Daniel Barenboim about Beethoven, life in swinging '60s London and his...

• How to listen to Beethoven

  Karl Lutchmayer tells Time Out how to truly appreciate Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata

• The A-Z of classical music

  Former heavy metal addict Seb Hunter knew nothing about classical music until he decided it was...

• Specialist musical instrument shops

  Whether you’re after a reconditioned Steinway or a brand new sitar, there’s a shop in...

• Small classical music venues

  London may have its Royal Albert Hall and its Royal Opera House, but the city is also home to...

• The best churches for classical music

  A great tradition of midday performing has grown up in London's beautiful churches, with...