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MOZART REQUIEM
Sunday 22nd November 2026, 7.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
MOZART REQUIEM
Conductor : Steven Devine
Violin/director: David Juritz
Soprano: Sarah Gilford
Mezzo: Bethany Horak-Hallet
Tenor: Ruari Bowen
Bass/baritone: Ossian Huskinson
Mozart Festival Orchestra
Brighton Festival Chorus
Programme :
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Mozart Requiem
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Antarctica : Vaughan Williams and Arvo Pärt
Sunday 6th December 2026, 2.45pm
Brighton Dome
Antarctica : Vaughan Williams and Arvo Pärt
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2026/27 Season
Conductor : Joanna MacGregor
Soprano : Elizabeth Watts
Tanpura : Bishi
Visuals : Kathy Hinde
Women of the Brighton Festival Chorus
Programme:
Arvo Pärt La Sindone
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Jonny Greenwood Water
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 7 ’Sinfonia Antarctica’
Vaughan Williams wrote a magnificent score for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, then transformed it into his 7th symphony, Sinfonia antartica five years later: a brooding work of genius. Man against implacable Nature had fascinated Vaughan Williams since the Sea Symphony of 1909 and his one-act opera of Synge’s Riders to the Sea in 1927. The expressive humanity in Scott’s doomed journey found its weight forty years later: music that’s uncanny and terrifying, as well as beautiful and rich. Brighton Festival Chorus’ ethereal female voices will join the exquisite lyric soprano Elizabeth Watts and Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Christmas with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 13th December 2026, 4pm
Brighton Dome
Christmas with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: James Morgan
Mezzo Soprano: Juliette Pochin
Baritone: Alex Otterburn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Brighton Festival Chorus
Brighton Festival Youth Choir
Celebrate the season with a festive program of rousing fanfares and Christmas classics, and sing along to your favourite carols alongside a spectacular 150-voice chorus. As ever, we’ll read our your best and worst Christmas jokes and there’s a chance to try your hand at conducting!
This much loved Christmas spectacular is a wonderful way to kick off a magical Christmas season with family and friends.
Limited availability
Classical Spectacular
Saturday 9th January, 2027, 2.30pm / 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
Classical Spectacular
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Brighton Festival Chorus
Conductor : Anthony Inglis
Programme:
JenkinsBenedictus
MozartLacrimosa
ElgarPomp and Circumstance 1
SibeliusFinlandia
PucciniNessun Dorma
ElgarLand of Hope and Glory
Epic favourites from the classical world meet lights and lasers in a magnificent show that captures all the power and emotion of the music.
Harmonium
Saturday 23rd January, 2027, 7.30pm
Brighton Dome
Adams – Harmonium
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2026/27 Season
Conductor : Alice Farnham
Piano : Joanna MacGregor
Brighton Festival Chorus
Programme:
Avril Coleridge-Taylor Sussex Landscape
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.9
John Adams Harmonium
John Adams’ fierce, propulsive tour de force, Harmonium, has become one of today’s most iconic choral works. Setting poems by John Donne (Negative Love) and Emily Dickinson (Because I could not stop of Death, Wild Nights), it embraces an ocean of feeling, with unparalleled emotional intensity. John Adams calls Harmonium ‘a secular cantata’, and it demands a large and fearless choir.
Verdi Requiem
Saturday 26th June 2027, 7.30pm
Southbank Centre
Verdi Requiem: Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Three hundred musicians unite for an unforgettable concert of a thrilling scale and intensity, performing one of the most powerful works ever written.
Conductor : James Morgan
Soprano : Elinor Rolfe Johnson
Mezzi-Soprano : Kathryn Rudge
Tenor: Thomas Elwin
Bass : James Platt
Ealing Choral Society
Brighton Festival Chorus
Programme:
Verdi Requiem
Verdi’s Requiem is a setting of the Catholic funeral mass, but it is unlike any other sacred work. It is an epic drama that combines the theatrical brilliance of the grand master of Italian opera with music of profound beauty. From the explosive fury of the ‘Dies Irae’ to the luminous serenity of the ‘Lux aeterna’, this is an unforgettable emotional journey through judgement, death, heaven, hell and back again.
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