Christmas at Southbank
Our annual winter season sprinkles festive music across the Southbank Centre.
4 December 2026, 19:00
Concerto Italiano: Monteverdi’s Madrigals
£22.00
Be enchanted by Renaissance songs of passion and longing in a rare UK visit from the pioneering ensemble, performing the complete Third Book of Madrigals.
5 December 2026, 19:00
Christmas Oratorio: Parts 1 – 3
£47.00
Hear from Bach at his most joyous in a work that celebrates the power of love, as Václav Luks conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
5 December 2026, 19:00
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Christmas Cracker
£37.50
Conductor Stephen Bell and vocalists Katie Birtill and Oliver Tompsett make for the perfect Christmas elves as they magic up some Yuletide spirit with blazing brass fanfares, enchanting croons under the Christmas tree, seasonal chart-toppers old and new, and sing-along carols with a resounding ‘five gold rings’ from the entire Hall guaranteed… you won’t want to say that you missed our Christmas Cracker.
6 December 2026, 18:00
Handel’s Messiah
£19.50
Join the English Chamber Orchestra and VOCES8 Foundation Choir directed by Nicholas Kraemer for Handel's Messiah. A festive tradition filled with wonderful arias and choruses, including the rousing Hallelujah Chorus.
6 December 2026, 15:00
Nobuyuki Tsujii: Beethoven, Grieg & Tchaikovsky
£46.00
Hear music crackling with energy, from Beethoven’s fiery Appassionata Sonata to Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, played by one of today’s most dazzling pianists.
6 December 2026, 18:00
Manchester Collective: Black Gold
£32.00
The ensemble dreams up a world of elemental soundscapes in works by Luke Mombrea, Sasha Scott and James Tenney, with Bach as the calm at the eye of the storm.
6 December 2026, 19:00
Christmas Oratorio: Parts 4 – 6
£22.00
Reach the triumphant heights of Bach’s sublime work with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Václav Luks.
