Night Shift report: do you cook?
We had a fantastic Night Shift event back on 5 December with Marin Alsop. Marin was on top form, and led an entertaining tour through Mozart’s Symphony 40, conducting great performances of each...
View ArticleNew Night Shift podcast
Our new Night Shift podcast has just been released, ahead of our event at the Roundhouse this Friday. On it we catch up with Marin Alsop backstage after the last event, and also talk to conductor...
View ArticleTop OAE moments of 2009
With the end of another year just passed, we took the chance to ask members of the office team about their top OAE moments of 2009: Stephen Carpenter, Chief Executive “In August and September 2009, as...
View Article2012-2013 London concerts: now on sale
Our 2012-2013 Southbank Centre season is now on public sale. It all starts off on 30 September when Emeritus Conductor Sir Roger Norrington returns to us to conduct a programme of Haydn, Cherubini,...
View ArticlePress Release: Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: OAE celebrates birth of the...
‘Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers’: Strut on stage for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s series celebrating feisty female roles in opera, the singers who perform them, and some of the most...
View ArticleQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers Podcast
Here’s our brand-new podcast dedicated to our new concert series for 2012-2013: Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers, which starts this Sunday at the Royal Festival Hall. In this episode we speak to a cast...
View ArticleInsiders podcast
In this episode of Southbank Centre’s Insiders podcast, Ben Eshmade chats to our musicians about how the OAE started (in a surprising place!), to conductor Marin Alsop on why she enjoys working with...
View ArticleQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers: in conversation
As part of our Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers podcast, we chatted to conductor Marin Alsop and soprano singer Emma Bell about their experiences with the OAE, including why singing certain arias can...
View ArticleMozart – Making Ennui Epic
In Curtain Raisers and High Drama on 8 March, Marin Alsop joins us for an evening of hugely evocative music written for the female voice. Among works by Weber, Beethoven and Schumann, there’s also a...
View ArticleQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers: Curtain raisers and high drama- audience...
We welcomed esteemed conductor Marin Alsop and British soprano Emma Bell to the stage for a dramatic concert featuring Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann on 8 March at the Southbank Centre. Here’s what the...
View ArticleSpeed Interview – Marin Alsop
Conductor Marin Alsop joins us for BBC PROMS: Brahms- A German Requiem. Here she tells us a bit about her heroes and the most important lesson life has taught her. What do you fear the most? Losing my...
View ArticleMarin Alsop at The Proms – Listen Again
We’ve had an amazing response to our performance at the BBC Proms with Marin Alsop this weekend. The concert, which included Brahms’ German Requiem, is available to listen to online all this week....
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BBC Proms with Marin Alsop – Reviews
As the summer draws to a close and our new season begins, we look back at some of the reviews form our appearance at the BBC Proms with Marin Alsop. ’70 minutes of music seemed to pass in a single...
View Article30 years of breaking the rules: 2015-2016 concerts announced
This morning at Southbank Centre we launched our 2015-2016 season of concerts to the press – a year which marks our 30th Birthday. As you’d expect we have some pretty special events lined up for you…...
View ArticleBBC Proms
The sun is shining and that means – for us at least – three things are crawling out from their winter hibernation: opera festivals, the Proms and ice-cream van drivers. Tickets for this year’s...
View ArticleMarin, Madness and Music
Genius and madness are often common bedfellows, and this concert focusses on the music of Robert Schumann – a composer who ended his days in an asylum. The electrifying violinist Patricia...
View ArticleSpeed interview, Marin Alsop
We’re back with Marin Alsop at the Royal Festival Hall on 6 February 2016. So we thought we’d put her through our speed interview again. What/when was your big breakthrough? Conducting a concert with...
View ArticleInsiders podcast
In this episode of Southbank Centre’s Insiders podcast, Ben Eshmade chats to our musicians about how the OAE started (in a surprising place!), to conductor Marin Alsop on why she enjoys working with...
View ArticleIn depth: Marin Alsop on Schumann, madness and creativity
Before our Marin, Music and Madness concert at the Royal Festival Hall in February, conductor Marin Alsop got together with journalist Jessica Duchen, musicologist Dr Robert Samuels and Director of...
View ArticleMarin Alsop and Nicola Benedetti programme
Here’s the programme for our Marin Alsop and Nicola Benedetti concert on Sunday 4 February at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre (but it’s also good if you’re going to one of the other...
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