Barbican Centre, 2011 Season

In 2011 the Barbican offers eminent theatre directors Robert LePage and Peter Brook along with the diversions of London International Mime Festival. Music includes composer focuses on Unsuk Chin, Brian Ferneyhough and Peter Eötvös, and high-profile visits by great conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis and Barbican resident guest Valery Gergiev.

Joan as Police Woman, the Waterboys, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Marianne Faithfull are among contemporary music performers while video and media art is featured from Ryoji Ikeda and Cory Arcangel. Full season listings below.

Theatre & Dance

 

Black Watch, National Theatre of Scotland 27 Nov 10-22 Jan  / 19:45, 14:00 / Barbican Theatre

Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl, Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford (London International Mime Festival) 19-29 Jan  / 19:45 / The Pit

Du Goudron et des Plumes, Compagnie MPTA / Mathurin Bolze (London International Mime Festival) 26-29 Jan  / 19:45 / Barbican Theatre

Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Antonioni Project 1-5 Feb  / 19:00, 19:45 / Barbican Theatre

Sir James Barrie's Dear Brutus 3-7 Feb  / 19:30, 14:00 / Silk Street Theatre, Guildhall School

David Hare's The Blue Room 14-17 Feb  / 19:30, 14:00 / Bridewell Theatre

The Blue Dragon, Robert Lepage / Ex Machina 17-26 Feb  / 19:45, 14:00 / Barbican Theatre

Cinderella, Shona Reppe 24-28 Feb  / :00, 14:00, 16:30 / The Pit

The Sapphires, Belvoir & Black Swan State Theatre Company 2-12 Mar  / 19:45, 14:00, 17:00 / Barbican Theatre

Olga Volt The Electric Fairy, Shona Reppe 4-6 Mar  / :00, 14:00, 16:30 / The Pit

Red Hot East End Comedy, C & R Presentations featuring Shazia Mirza, Paul Chowdhry, Isma Almas, Imran Yusuf, Anil Desai and Ahir Shah 18 Mar  / 20:00 / Barbican Theatre

New Act of the Year 20 Finals, C & R Presentations, hosted by Arthur Smith 19 Mar  / 20:00 / Barbican Theatre

Mozart's A Magic Flute, C.I.C.T. / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 23-27 Mar  / 19:45, 17:00 / Barbican Theatre

The Tempest, Cheek by Jowl 7-16 Apr  / 19:15, 14:00 / Silk Street Theatre

SPILL Tarot Exhibition 18-23 Apr  / 13:00 / Barbican Public Spaces

Helen Cole-We See Fireworks 18-23 Apr  / 13:00 / Barbican Public Spaces

Ryoji Ikeda-datamatics [ver.2.0], 18 Apr  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Do What Thou Wilt, Harminder Judge 18-20 Apr  / 21:00, 19:45 / The Pit

Glorious, Rajni Shah 19-21 Apr  / 19:30, 13:00 / Silk Street Theatre

The Minister’s Black Veil, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio / Romeo Castellucci 21-23 Apr  / 19:45 / Barbican Theatre

SPILL Feast 22 Apr  / 13:00 / Barbican Theatre

SCHREI 27, A film by Davide Pepe and Diamanda Galás 22-23 Apr  / 13:00, 13:30, 14:00, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 16:00, 16:30, 17:00, 17:30, 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, 21:00 / Silk Street Theatre

In Eldersfield + I guess if the stage exploded…, Kings of England + Sylvia Rimat 22-23 Apr  / 15:00 / The Pit

And The Horse You Rode In On, Told by an Idiot 27 Apr -14 May  / 19:45, 15:00 / The Pit

Serious Follies, Told by an Idiot 6 May  / 00:00 / The Pit

Bite Weekend Workout, Told by an Idiot 7-8 May  / 10:30 / Barbican Centre

The School for Scandal, Deborah Warner 11 May-18 Jun  / 19:15, 19:00, 14:15 / Barbican Theatre

Total Football, Ridiculusmus 18 May-18 Jun  / 19:45 / The Pit (picture left)

Donizetti: Rita / Tchaikovsky: Iolanta 9-15 Jun  / 19:00 / Silk Street Theatre, Guildhall School

Bite Weekend Workout: The School for Scandal 11-12 Jun  / 10:30 / Barbican Centre

Duckie, Lullaby 24 Jun -24 Jul  / 22:30 / The Pit

From Here to There, Royal New Zealand Ballet 14-16 Jul  / 19:45 / Barbican Theatre (picture right)

Wunderkammer, Circa 19-24 Jul  / 19:45, 17:00 / Barbican Theatre

BBE: Touch, Boy Blue Entertainment 28-30 Jul  / 20:00 / The Pit

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Music

LSO Discovery Day: Vaughan Williams 16 Jan  / 10:00 / LSO Discovery Event

The Passions of Vaughan Williams (PG*) 16 Jan  / 16:00 / LSO St Luke’s

London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn Strauss / Vaughan Williams 16 Jan  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, Sergey Khachatryan (violin) Shostakovich / Tchaikovsky 18 & 23 Jan  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Ian Clarke, Sarah Newbold, Philippa Davies (picture left) flutes 19 Jan  / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

Anton and Erin, Puttin' on the Ritz 22 Jan  / 15:00 19:30/ Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev 23 Jan  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall (see 18 Jan)

Philippa Davies, Joy Farrall, Graham Sheen 26 Jan  / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

Los Angeles Philharmonic / Dudamel Bernstein 27 Jan  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Los Angeles Philharmonic / Dudamel Mahler 28 Jan  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

LATES: Disruption - A Fashion Performance 29 Jan  / 18:00 / Fountain Room

The Irrepressibles + Gabby Young & Other Animals 29 Jan  / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder Elgar's The Kingdom 30 Jan / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Bělohlávek, Lars Vogt (piano) Mozart / Mahler 6 2 Feb  / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

The Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr Yeats 3-4 Feb  / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

Reggae Britannia 5 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Joan As Police Woman + special guests 6 Feb  / 20:00 / Barbican Hall (picture above)

Barnardo's Choir Competition Concert 7 Feb  / 18:30 / Barbican Hall

Belcea Quartet performs Beethoven and Turnage 7 Feb  / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

The Creole Choir of Cuba 8 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Penguin Cafe + Portico Quartet 9 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Christian Blackshaw 10 Feb  / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

London Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Harding, Hélène Grimaud (piano) Strauss / Ravel / Strauss 10 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Drive-By Truckers: The Secret To A Happy Ending 10 Feb  / 20:30 / Cinema 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Robertson, Stephen Bryant (violin) Sibelius / Detlev Glanert / Sibelius 11 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Trumpet Warriors: Henry Armburg Jennings vs Quentin Collins with the Leon Greening Trio 11 Feb  / 20:00 / LSO St Luke’s

Adams' Nixon in China, Met Opera Live 2010-11 12 Feb  / 18:00 / Cinema 1

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 12 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Evgeny Kissin in Recital 13 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Valentine's Day Classics 14 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Vinicio Capossela 15 Feb  / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Teddy Thompson and special guest David Ford 16 Feb / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien 17 Feb / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

London Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Harding, Janine Jansen (violin) Brahms / Wagner, Strauss 17 Feb / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sinaisky Tchaikovsky / Schnittke 18 Feb / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

LSO Discovery Family Concert: In The Woods 19 Feb / 14:30 / Barbican Hall

Berliner Philharmoniker/ Rattle Schubert / Schoenberg / Mahler / Schoenberg 20 Feb / 19:30 / NB venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre

Berliner Philharmoniker/ Rattle Stravinsky / Mahler 4 21 Feb / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Berliner Philharmoniker/ Rattle Haydn / Hosokawa / Schubert 22 Feb / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Berliner Philharmoniker/ Rattle, Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) Wolf / Brahms / Mahler 3 23 Feb / 19:30 / NB venue: Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Skampa Quartet 24 Feb / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

Solstice String Quartet with Richard Harwood 25 Feb / 19:30 / LSO St Luke’s

Total Immersion: Brian Ferneyhough with BBC Symphony Orchestra

26 Feb / 11:00 / Mozart Room, Level 4

26 Feb / 13:00 / Barbican Hall

26 Feb / 15:30 / Mozart Room, Level 4

26 Feb / 18:00 / FreeStage 26 Feb / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Met Opera Live 2010-11 26 Feb / 18:00 / Cinema 1

Weinberg and Schubert Chamber Works 28 Feb / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, Mario Brunello (cello) Shostakovich CC2 / Mahler 9 2 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Daniel Hope and Sebastian Knauer 3 Mar / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

Lunchtime Concert: Daniel Hope and Sebastian Knauer 300th Anniversary Gala Concert 3 Mar / 19:00 / St Paul's Cathedral

Ravel and Schumann Chamber Works 3 Mar / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev Mahler 9 3 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Trumpet Warriors: Jeremy Pelt Quintet Men of Honour 3 Mar / 20:00 / LSO St Luke’sl

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Yamada 4 Mar / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle Messiaen / Bruckner 7 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Youssou N'Dour 9 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall (picture right)

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Elias Quartet & Michael Collins 10 Mar / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

EC4 Music in aid of The Prince's Trust 11 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance with Alastair McGowan 12 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis Beethoven 13 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Kurt Elling with special guest Richard Galliano 14 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts: Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Mihaela Ursuleasa 17 Mar / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

Beethoven Plus 17 Mar / 20:00 / LSO St Luke’s

Liebestod, Amsterdam Sinfonietta Wagner / Berg / Michel van der Aa 18 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

The BBC Symphony Orchestra at 80 19 Mar / 14:30 / Cinema 3

Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Met Opera Live 2010-11 19 Mar / 17:00 / Cinema 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Bychkov Rachmaninov / Walton 1 19 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis (picture left) Stravinsky / Strauss / Beethoven 20 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Belcea Quartet performs Beethoven & Janacek 21 Mar / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

Guildhall Jazz Alumni Ensemble 21 Mar / 19:30 / The Pit

The 65th and Final Met Police Annual Concert 21 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Guildhall Chamber Music Showcase 22 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, Leonidas Kavakos Shchedrin / Shostakovich / Tchaikovsky 23 & 24 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Vienna Piano Trio 24 Mar / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

Concert: Vienna Piano Trio 24 Mar / 19:30 / LSO St Luke’s

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev 24 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall (see 23 Mar)

Aurora Orchestra: Jealous Guy 25 Mar / 19:30 / LSO St Luke’s

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Bychkov Schubert 2/ Brahms-Glanert / Rachmaninov 25 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Vivaldi Orlando Furioso 26 Mar / 18:30 / Barbican Hall

Guildhall Jazz Band, Martin Hathaway 26 Mar / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

Camden Youth Music 27 Mar / 13:00, 19:30 / LSO St Luke’s

Van der Graaf Generator + guests 27 Mar / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

'Talking to Hardy' Iain Burnside, director 28 Mar / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

Verdi Requiem 29 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Murray Perahia in Recital 30 Mar / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Janine Jansen (picture right) and Itamar Golan 31 Mar / 13:00 / LSO St Luke’s

London Symphony Orchestra / Xian Zhang, Leila Josefowicz (violin) Prokofiev VC1 & Ivan the Terrible 3 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

LSO St Luke's Community Choir: Into A Distant Land 4 Apr / 19:30 / LSO St Luke’s

Choir: Into A Distant Land, Asa & Tiken Jah Fakoly 4 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

City of London Choir 5 Apr / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

Yasmin Levy + Melingo, 6 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Kristjan Järvi 7 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Esperanza Spalding 8 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Total Immersion: Unsuk Chin (picture left), BBC Symphony Orchestra

9 Apr / 11:00 / Mozart Room, Level 4

9 Apr / 12:30 / FreeStage

9 Apr / 13:00 / Barbican Hall

9 Apr / 15:00 / Mozart Room, Level 4

9 Apr / 18:00 / Mozart Room, Level 4

9 Apr / 19:15 / FreeStage

9 Apr / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, Met Opera Live 2010-11, 9 Apr / 18:00 / Cinema 1

Balinese Gamelan Concert 9 Apr / 19:30 / LSO St Luke’s

Astillero 10 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

José González performing with The Gothenburg String Theory 11 Apr / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

Piotr Anderszewski & Frank Peter Zimmermann Beethoven, Szymanowsky, Schumann 14 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Ojos de Brujo with special guests + Depedro 15 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Crouch End Festival Chorus 16 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Kristjan Järvi, Vadim Gluzman (violin) Falla / Michael Daugherty / Stravinsky 17 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Ryoji Ikeda - datamatics [ver.2.0] 18 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall (picture below)

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande concert performance with Nathalie Dessay and Simon Keenlyside 19 Apr / 18:30 / Barbican Hall

Huddersfield Choral Society The Messiah 22 Apr / 18:00 / Barbican Hall

Strauss’s Capriccio, Met Opera Live 2010-11 23 Apr / 18:00 / Cinema 1

London Schools Symphony Orchestra 27 Apr / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Volkov Britten, Beethoven 29 Apr / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Met Opera Live 2010-11 30 Apr / 18:00 / Cinema 1

Ron Sexsmith + special guests 30 Apr / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth Gershwin, Copland, new Tim Garland 5 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Reverberations: The influence of Steve Reich, 7-8 May

7 May / 11:00 14:00 / LSO St Luke’s

7 May / 18:00 / Barbican Hall

7-8 May / 00:00 / Barbican Hall

8 May / 11:00 14:00 / LSO St Luke’s

8 May / 18:00 / Barbican Hall

The Gold Medal Guildhall School's top singing prize 10 May / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

Ein Deutsches Requiem 11 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev,  Yefim Bronfman (piano) Shostakovich /Tchaikovsky 12 & 15 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Group Doueh + Hayvanlar Alemi with Sublime Frequencies DJs 13 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Total Immersion: Peter Eötvös, BBC Symphony Orchestra 2010-2011

14 May / 11:00 15:00 18:00 / Mozart Room, Level 4

14 May / 13:00 20:00/ Barbican Hall

14 May / 19:15 / FreeStage

Wagner’s Die Walküre, Met Opera Live 2010-11 14 May / 17:00 / Cinema 1

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev 15 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall (see 12 May)

Faure & Brahms Piano Quartets 16 May / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Bělohlávek Smetana's The Bartered Bride 20 May / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

Charlie Haden The jazz bassist celebrated in a two-day programme 21-22 May / 20:00 / Barbican Hall

Ladysmith Black Mambazo 23 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Marianne Faithfull 24 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall (picture left)

Handel Ariodante 25 May / 18:30 / Barbican Hall

Noriko Ogawa 26 May / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis, Mitsuko Uchida Haydn 99, Beethoven PC2, Nielsen 6 26 May / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

LSO Discovery Family Concert: Sound Detectives 28 May / 14:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis, Uchida Haydn 99, Beethoven PC1, Nielsen 6 2 Jun / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Järvi Bernstein's Candide 5 Jun / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

Mozart Idomeneo 11 Jun / 19:00 / Barbican Hall

Belcea Quartet, Alexandra Dariescu, piano 14 Jun / 19:30 / GSMD Music Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink, Murray Perahia (piano) Schumann / Bruckner 4 14 & 16 June / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink 16 Jun / 19:30 / Barbican Hall (see 14 June)

The Infernal Comedy starring John Malkovich / Wiener Akademie / Haselböck 17-18 Jun / Barbican Hall

London Oriana Choir 22 Jun / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink Ravel / Mendelssohn 23 Jun / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Mozart La Finta Giardiniera 24 Jun / 18:30 / Barbican Hall

Mozart Mass in C Minor 28 Jun / 19:30 / Barbican Hall

Barbican Young Orchestra 3 Jul / 00:00 / Barbican Hall

Aurora Orchestra: When Doves Cry 10 Jul / 19:30 / LSO St Luke’s

In the 2011-12 season opening in September LSO and BBC SO regulars are joined by residencies from three world orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. The range of work includes five world premieres, one European premiere and 23 UK premieres.

Conductors include Valery Gergiev and Sir Colin Davis (LSO), Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Neeme Järvi highlighting Finnish music (BBC SO), Riccardo Chailly (Leipzig Gewandhaus), Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Concertgebouw), and Alan Gilbert (NYPhil). Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle and Antonio Pappano are among other conductors appearing. Landmarks in the repertoire offered include complete Beethoven piano sonatas and symphonies series, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky series, cycles of Nielson and Sibelius symphonies, UK premieres by Jonathan Harvey, Philip Glass and Thomas Adès, and focuses on contemporary composers Brett Dean, Arvo Pärt and Sofia Gubaidulina.

Soloists include pianists Mitsuko Uchida, Lang Lang and Marta Argerich, and violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter, Joshua Bell and Daniel Hope. Singers include Joyce DiDonato, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Karita Mattila, and operas in concert include Parsifal, Der Freischütz, La clemenza di Tito and Dvorák’s The Jacobin. Public booking opens 31 January.

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Visual Arts

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion Mondays only till 6 Feb / Barbican Art Gallery

Damián Ortega: The Independent, New commission for The Curve till 16 Jan / The Curve

Cory Arcangel: Beat the Champ Video media artist 10 Feb-22 May / The Curve  (picture above)

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark, Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s 3 Mar-22 May / Barbican Art Gallery

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