Browse our growing guide to the best Classical Music Concerts, Opera & Ballet events and festivals in Oxford and across Oxfordshire.
The Oxford Sinfonia is very excited to welcome Jennifer Pike to the Sheldonian to perform Khachaturian’s violin concerto.
Every toy has a story, especially in this charming comedy of errors, a witty combination of antics and abracadabra, set in a doll maker’s workshop.
The most poignant of all classical ballets is filled with dramatic passion in a chilling and heart-rending tale of love, treachery and forgiveness from beyond the grave.
This most famous fantasy ballet for all the family begins as night falls on Christmas Eve. And when midnight strikes, we are swept away to a fairy-tale world where nothing is quite as it seems.
Before Marios Papadopoulos conducts what is surely Johannes Brahms’s best-loved symphony, the astonishing prodigy Leia Zhu takes on Tchaikovsky’s powerful and poetic Violin Concerto.
As a prelude to the 25th Anniversary of the Oxford Piano Festival, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra presents the Festival’s President, Sir András Schiff, in recital at the Sheldonian Theatre.
Back by overwhelming public demand, this award-winning opera returns in a new production with exquisite sets, including a spectacular Japanese garden and fabulous costumes.
Aida, the grandest of all Ellen Kent’s operas, is a tragic story of war, jealousy and revenge at whose heart is the doomed love of the beautiful Ethiopian slave girl, Aida, and the Egyptian hero, Radames.
The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by Oxfordshire choirs and front-rank soloists for this Passiontide performance under The Queen’s College’s Owen Rees.
Between them, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber defined the orchestral sound of America in the first half of the 20th century. But plenty of gems of American music remain undiscovered.
In the building where Haydn received his Oxford doctorate, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by soloists and the Choir of Merton College for Haydn’s most inspired ‘creation’.
Nicolò Foron conducts it here alongside more beauteous music from France and Britten’s sparkling setting of French poetry, Les Illuminations
Elgar’s dazzling, virtuosic orchestral showpiece comes after his acerbic, embittered and sorrowful Cello Concerto written in less happy times, and the rediscovered gem that is Morfydd Llwyn Owen’s sumptuous Nocturne.
Featuring new compositions by Afghan composers living in exile, this concert celebrates the rich history of traditional Afghan music at a time when making music in Afghanistan is forbidden.
This powerful new adaptation of one of the world’s most cherished classical ballets stars English Youth Ballet’s international principals and talented young dancers from the local area.
For this culmination of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s season at the Sheldonian Theatre, Marios Papadopoulos conducts Bruckner’s symphony here after Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is a supercharged wild ride in which 18th-century France crashes into 20th-century post-war America.
The Oxford Piano Festival is nine days of piano festivities, with a packed schedule of masterclasses and concerts from top names in the piano world.
Oxford Bach Choir perform two popular choral French masterpieces – Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine and Duruflé: Requiem – in a concert to be streamed free from the Sheldonian Theatre.
George Caird conducts Oxford Sinfonia in Mozart Symphony No. 29, and Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and Mozart Divertimento K131 at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.
Ian Brown – a former pianist of the Nash Ensemble – conducts the Oxford Sinfonia in a performance of Mozart’s outrageous and chilling comedy Don Giovanni at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
Oxford Proms comprises five evening concerts in August 2022, all in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin at 7.00pm.
The Choir of The Queen’s College and the Academy of Ancient Music join forces to explore the choral works of Giovanni Bononcini – Handel’s main rival in London.
Mozart with Marios Papadopoulos is part of the Digital Series by Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and it will premiere on YouTube before becoming available on-demand.
This second in a series of two concerts that pairs the works of the two composers, who were shaped by similar musical traditions but radically different backgrounds.
The first in a series of two concerts that pairs the works of the two composers, who were shaped by similar musical traditions but radically different backgrounds.
Composed in memory of the Fauré’s father and performed at the composer’s own funeral, Fauré’s gorgeous Requiem speaks of a better world beyond this one.
Orchestrated for two pianos, timpani and percussion, this is one of a series of socially distanced chamber concerts at SJE Arts and part of Orchestra of St John’s Summer Festival 2021.
Part of the SJE Arts International Piano Series 2021 and Orchestra of St John’s Summer Festival – two one-hour performances at 6.00pm and 8.00pm.
A series of socially distanced chamber concerts at SJE Arts performed by Orchestra of St John’s.