What’s On – London
2025–26 London Season
Experience favourite works as if for the first time, and discover incredible music you’ve never heard before. Join us for our 2025–26 London season!
Handel’s Serse
Fri 19 Jun 26
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London
Laurence Cummings directs Academy of Ancient Music and a world-class cast in a concert performance of Serse – Handel’s sensational opera of love and power in ancient Persia.
The Chosen One
Tue 14 Apr 26
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Cambridge
Thu 16 Apr 26
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London
Leipzig’s got talent: in 1723 Bach competed for one of Germany’s top musical jobs. Today, Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music reveal exactly what he was up against.
Rhythm Across Time
Wed 13 May 26
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Cambridge
Thu 14 May 26
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London
Academy of Ancient Music joins The Wave Quartet in an ingenious, audacious musical voyage across five centuries.
BBC Singers: Bach's B Minor Mass
Sun 10 May 26
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London
Academy of Ancient Music joins the BBC Singers under their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin to perform Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor.
1765: Times of Transition
Wed 30 Sep 26
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Cambridge
Thu 1 Oct 26
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London
Mozart, Haydn, Telemann and Philidor: four composers in a passionate age, reinventing music on the wing. A dynamic start to a season of music that defies convention.
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Tue 17 Nov 26
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London
Monteverdi’s most sensuous – and scandalous – opera, performed in concert by Laurence Cummings, Academy of Ancient Music and a stellar cast.
The Art of the Harpsichord
Wed 2 Dec 26
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Cambridge
Thu 3 Dec 26
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London
Harpsichordist Alastair Ross plays Bach, Handel, Laschanzky and their contemporaries – celebrating an instrument that liberated the baroque imagination.
Septet: Beethoven & Hummel
Wed 10 Feb 27
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Cambridge
Thu 11 Feb 27
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London
Academy of Ancient Music plays Septets by Beethoven and Hummel – giants of the Romantic revolution, relaxing among friends.
Handel: Brockes-Passion
Fri 26 Mar 27
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London
On Good Friday, Academy of Ancient Music rediscovers Handel’s Brockes-Passion – the story of the Crucifixion, retold in music that blazes with emotion.
The Royall Consort
Wed 21 Apr 27
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Cambridge
Thu 22 Apr 27
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London
The Royall Consort of King Charles I was at the cutting edge of 17th century music, and today it lives again with Academy of Ancient Music.
JS Bach / Arvo Pärt
Fri 7 May 27
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Cambridge
Sat 8 May 27
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London
Mystery, wonder and sounds to refresh the spirit, as Academy of Ancient Music and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perform timeless testaments to faith.
The Creatures of Prometheus
Thu 24 Jun 27
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London
Academy of Ancient Music joins the phenomenal Circa in a thrillingly physical reinvention of Beethoven’s only ballet.