Royal Albert Hall

Events at Royal Albert Hall (Kensington Gore, London SW7)

Aida

Location	Date	Tickets
	Verdi's Ancient Egypt-set opera is directed by Stephen Medcalf. Andrew Greenwood conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Performed in Italian, with English surtitles. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	23 Feb–11 Mar Feb 23–25, 29, Mar 1–3, 6–10, 7.30pm, mats Feb 25 & 26, Mar 3 & 4, 10 & 11, 2.30pm, ends Mar 11	020 7838 3100 £21.50–£67.50

Ariana Kashefi And Alison Rhind

Location	Date	Tickets
	A performance by the cellist and pianist of Ligeti's Solo Cello Sonata and Strauss's Cello Sonata. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 19 Feb Feb 19, 11am	0845 401 5045 £11

Cirque Du Soleil: Totem

Location	Date	Tickets
	A dance-theatre and circus show featuring music, acrobatics, clowns and choir, which journeys through the evolution of mankind. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	25 Jan–16 Feb Jan 17–21, 25–28, 31, Feb 2–4, 7–11, 14–16, 8pm, Jan 22, 29, Feb 5, 12, 7.30pm, mats Jan 21, 26–28, Feb 1, 3 & 4, 8, 10 & 11, 15 & 16, 3.30pm, Jan 22, 29, Feb 5, 12, 3pm, ends Feb 16	0845 401 5045 £17.50–£75

Darius Brubeck Quartet

Location	Date	Tickets
	The pianist leads his jazz outfit. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	19 Feb Feb 19, 12noon	0845 401 5045 £15–£28.50

David Sylvian

Location	Date	Tickets
	The singer-songwriter, musician and former frontman of synth pop outfit Japan plays new wave and art rock. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	24 Mar Mar 24, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £35–£37.50

Dionne Warwick

Location	Date	Tickets
	Classic soul by the long-established American singer. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	28 May May 28, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £20–£125

The Dubliners

Location	Date	Tickets
	Irish folk-rock by the veteran band from Dublin. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	13 Mar Mar 13, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £25–£42.50

Elgar Comedy

Location	Date	Tickets
	Offbeat anecdotes and gags from Carl Donnelly, plus Helen Keen and Fergus Craig. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 22 Mar Mar 22, 8.30pm, doors 8pm	0845 401 5045 £10

Feist, M Ward

Location	Date	Tickets
	The Canadian singer-songwriter plays elemental alt pop and contemporary folk balladry toying with frailty and lust, promoting her fifth album, Metals, as well as her previous gold-selling record, The Reminder. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	25 Mar Mar 25, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 Phone for prices

Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons

Location	Date	Tickets
	Pop and rock from the veteran American singer and his band, known for the hit songs Big Girls Don't Cry and Walk Like a Man. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	26 Jun–27 Jun Jun 26 & 27, 7pm	0845 401 5045 £85

George Michael: Symphonica: The Orchestral Tour

Location	Date	Tickets
	The chart-topping pop singer and former Wham! frontman performs a selection of his hits as well as some of his favourite covers, with accompaniment from an orchestra. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	2 May May 2, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £56–£125 phone for availability, original tickets from postponed Oct 26 gig valid

Gill Manly, Sarah Moule, Shireen Francis

Location	Date	Tickets
	Mainstream jazz by the London-based singer. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	21 Mar Mar 21, 9.45pm	0845 401 5045 £12

Hahn-Bin And John Blacklow

Location	Date	Tickets
	A performance by the violin and piano duo of Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre, Elgar's Salut D'amour and Monti's Csardas, plus a selection of film music. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 19 Feb Feb 19, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £14.50

The Hot Potato Syncopators

Location	Date	Tickets
	Trad and classic jazz by the band. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	30 Mar Mar 30, 12noon	Free

The Human League

Location	Date	Tickets
	If for nothing else, The Human League will always be remembered for one of the most memorable singles of the 1980s, Don't You Want Me. Taken from their hugely successful 1981 album, Dare, the single made number one in the UK, the USA and several other countries around the world. It must also have boosted the sale of synthesisers, as numerous electronica acts that have followed have quoted both the band and the album as a huge influence. Although now known as a synthpop band, when they were… View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	26 Nov Nov 26, 8pm	0845 401 5045 £27.50

Il Divo & Orchestra In Concert

Location	Date	Tickets
	The classical crossover group perform songs including a re-working of both Wicked Game by Chris Issak, and Roy Orbinson's Crying. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	17 Apr–18 Apr Apr 17 & 18, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £35–£85

Imelda May

Location	Date	Tickets
	Imelda May returned from a 20 date US tour and fully submersed herself in the UK festival season performing three sets at Glastonbury, and is now embarking on a UK tour. Her single Psycho is the first from her album Mayhem. Since 2008 she has toured consistently, winning over audiences throughout the UK, and in addition to Glastonbury she appeared at Hop Farm and Cornbury festivals during summer 2010. Imelda performs with her four-piece band, which comprises of the following musicians… View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	4 May May 4, 7.30pm, doors 6.45pm	0845 401 5045 £29.50–£37.50

The Imperial Ice Stars: Swan Lake On Ice

Location	Date	Tickets
	With Tchaikovsky's glorious music, exhilarating new choreography from leading ice director Tony Mercer, and dazzling new costumes, this innovative portrayal of the classic love story will take your breath away. The 26 World, European and National Championship skaters, who between them hold more than 250 competition medals, take contemporary ice dance to a new level with their daring and graceful feats some of which are so complex they haven't yet been named performed in the intimate setting… View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	18 May–20 May May 18 & 19, 7.30pm, May 20, 6pm, mats May 19, 2.30pm, May 20, 2pm	0845 401 5045 £17.50–£60

The Joanna Eden Quartet

Location	Date	Tickets
	Mainstream and Latin jazz, plus soul, by the vocalist and colleagues. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 29 Feb Feb 29, 9.45pm	0845 401 5045 £12

Kamila Iwanski Band

Location	Date	Tickets
	Classic French pop songs performed by the singer with colleagues. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	9 Mar Mar 9, 12noon	Free

Lang Lang And Philharmonia Orchestra

Location	Date	Tickets
	Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts works by Beethoven including the Overture to Namensfeier, Piano Concerto No 1 In C and Piano Concerto No 4 In G. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	20 Mar–23 Mar Mar 20, 21, 23, 7.45pm	0845 401 5045 £20–£67.50

Langley Show Choir

Location	Date	Tickets
	A performance by the student choir. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	6 Mar Mar 6, 12noon	Free

Maciek Pysz Quartet

Location	Date	Tickets
	Mixed contemporary jazz and world music by the Polish guitarist and colleagues. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	16 Mar Mar 16, 12noon	Free

Maria Minerva, Outfit, NZCA/Lines, Juk Juk

Location	Date	Tickets
	Electropop by the Lisbon-based singer. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	22 Feb Feb 22, 7.45pm	0845 401 5045 £7.50

Milos Karadaglic

Location	Date	Tickets
	The guitarist performs music from Spain and Turkey. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 21 Feb Feb 21, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 Phone for prices

Moishe's Bagel

Location	Date	Tickets
	The Edinburgh-based five-piece plays Klezmer and Balkan rhythms. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	24 Feb Feb 24, 12noon	Free

The Night Of 1000 Voices

Location	Date	Tickets
	A collection of choirs from around the country perform songs from popular musicals, including Evita, The Lion King, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables and We Will Rock You. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	6 May May 6, 8pm	0845 401 5045 £17.50

Noah And The Whale, Bahamas

Location	Date	Tickets
	The London-based indie-folk outfit gently embraces synth-pop on the third album, Last Night On Earth. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	16 Apr Apr 16, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £16–£20

Orbital

Location	Date	Tickets
	Electronica and kaleidoscopic techno from the duo. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	10 Apr Apr 10, 7pm–11pm, doors	0845 401 5045 £25–£42 adv

The Peacock & Gamble Emergency Broadcast

Location	Date	Tickets
	Stand-up based on the comics Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble always being available to fill in when another show goes wrong. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	23 Feb Feb 23, 8.30pm	0845 401 5045 £10

A Piacere Trio

Location	Date	Tickets
	The trio performs Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 1 In C Minor and Piazzolla's Four Seasons Of Buenos Aires. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 25 Mar Mar 25, 11am	0845 401 5045 £11

Primus

Location	Date	Tickets
	The Californian band plays a skewed collision of metal, rock and funk in support of the album Green Naugahyde. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	4 Apr–5 Apr Apr 4 & 5, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £25–£37.50

Roisin Conaty And Nat Luurtsema

Location	Date	Tickets
	Smart gags and anecdotes from Conaty and quirky humour from Luurtsema. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 1 Mar Mar 1, 8.30pm	0845 401 5045 £10

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Brighton Festival Chorus/Goldsmiths Choral Union/Royal Choral Society

Location	Date	Tickets
	Owain Arwel Hughes conducts Handel's Zadok The Priest, Orff's O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, Bizet's Flower Song from Carmen, Puccini's Un Bel Di Vedremo and Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly, Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus and works by Verdi, Borodin, Parry and Faure. With soprano Deborah Norman and tenor John Hudson. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	14 Mar Mar 14, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £5–£40

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Royal Choral Society/English Concert Chorus/Band Of The Welsh Guards/Muskets And Cannons Of The Moscow Militia

Location	Date	Tickets
	John Rigby conducts various works by composers including Bizet's Flower Song from Carmen, Mozart's Lacrimosa Requiem, Rodrigo's Adagio Concierto De Aranjuez featuring guitarist Craig Ogden and Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Waltz. With soprano Kate Valentine and tenor Jesus Leon. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	15 Mar–18 Mar Mar 15–18, 7.30pm, Mar 17 & 18, 3pm	0845 401 5045 £13.50–£57.50

Show Of Hands With Miranda Sykes

Location	Date	Tickets
	Acoustic folk duo from Exeter featuring the double bass player and vocalist who has been performing with the group since 2004. View full details and ticket info
Royal Albert Hall	7 Apr Apr 7, 8pm	0845 401 5045 £25–£30

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Location	Date	Tickets
	The American singer and the veteran rock and blues-rock band performs some of its hits and songs from the album Mojo. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	18 Jun–20 Jun Jun 18, 20, 7.30pm	0845 401 5045 £40–£75

Trio Manouche

Location	Date	Tickets
	The group plays Gypsy jazz and swing. View full details
Royal Albert Hall	Elgar Room 15 Feb Feb 15, 9.45pm	0845 401 5045 £12

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