‘What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.’
TS Eliot Four Quartets
Priority Booking
Booking for Friends & Patrons of the OAE opens 25 April.
General Booking
For events up to January 2024, booking opens 2 May. For events from February 2024, booking will open later this year.
Information is correct at the time of printing. The OAE reserves the right to change artists and programmes. We do not offer refunds or exchanges unless an event is cancelled.
We open our 2023 / 24 season with a concert framed by symphonies from the beginning and end of Haydn’s career, tracing his passage from young trailblazer to the greatest composer in the world.
HAYDN First and Last
Wednesday 25 October, 7.00pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Representation of Chaos from The Creation
Symphony No. 51
Sinfonia concertante for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon & orchestra
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 104 ‘London’
Matthew Truscott leader / director
Masaaki Suzuki, the acclaimed founder of the Bach Collegium Japan, joins us to collaborate on an energetic, thought-provoking new production of Bach’s great Christmas masterpiece.
BACH Christmas Oratorio
Saturday 2 December, 7.00pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall
JS BACH
Weihnachtsoratorium
(Christmas Oratorio) BWV 248: Parts 1 – 3
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
(Sing to the Lord a new song!)
BWV 225
Anna Dennis soprano
Hugh Cutting countertenor
Guy Cutting tenor
Dominic Sedgwick bass
Masaaki Suzuki conductor
Sunday 3 December, 7.00pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall
JS BACH
Sanctus from Mass in B Minor,
BWV 232
Weihnachtsoratorium
(Christmas Oratorio) BWV 248: Part 4 – 6
The Fairy Queen is throwing a huge midsummer night’s party. Big. Huge. You’re invited.
THE FAIRY QUEEN
Three Wishes
Wednesday 17 January, 7.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall
PURCELL / JAMES REDWOOD
The Fairy Queen: Three Wishes
Composer James Redwood and writer Hazel Gould transform Henry Purcell’s Shakespeare-inspired opera into a magical adventure for the whole family.
Following on from The Moon Hares in 2022 we’re delighted to present another family opera created in collaboration with communities from Camden and around the UK.
James Redwood conductor
Hazel Gould director
A celebration of the prodigious gifts of Mozart with award-winning soprano Louise Alder in a selection of virtuosic operatic and concert arias. The illustrious Riccardo Minasi directs an enthralling evening that concludes with one of Mozart’s most popular symphonies.
MOZART Love is in the air
Thursday 22 February, 7.00pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall
MOZART
Così fan tutte Overture
Alma grande e nobil core, K 578
‘Come scoglio immoto resta’ from Così fan tutte
‘Eh Susanna non vien’ and ‘Dove sono i bei momenti’ from Le nozze di Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro Overture
‘Voi che sapete’ from Le nozze di Figaro
Non più! Tutto ascoltai (Non temer, amato bene) K 490
Symphony No. 31 ‘Paris’
Louise Alder soprano
Riccardo Minasi conductor
Olivier Award-winner Peter Whelan directs Bach’s Easter Oratorio with soloists from the new cohort of our Rising Stars of the Enlightenment scheme. The piece packs a breathtaking mix of public celebration, personal devotion and tight psychological drama.
BACH Easter Oratorio
Wednesday 27 March, 7.00pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall
JS BACH
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (Rejoice, you hearts) BWV 66
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden (Stay with us, for evening falls) BWV 6
Oster-Oratorium (Easter Oratorio) BWV 249
Peter Whelan director
We continue our daring quest towards the borderline between Romanticism and Modernism. We team up again with conductor Maxim Emelyanychev in a programme crowned by Sibelius’ awe-inspiring Symphony No. 5.
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
Wednesday 3 April, 7.00pm
Royal Festival Hall
GLINKA
Ruslan and Ludmila Overture
RACHMANINOV
The Rock
GRIEG
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 5
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor
Following the sell-out success of our Beethoven Piano Concerto series together in 2022, we reunite with Sir András Schiff for an immersive journey through the quintet of masterworks that spanned Mendelssohn’s tragically short life.
