BBC SSO 2026/27: Britten's Les Illuminations - Afternoon Performance
- Tickets
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£17.50 (includes restoration fund) - advance booking, £20.50 (includes restoration fund) - within 2 weeks of concert
- Box office telephone
- Dates and times
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Sunday 21st Feb 2027
2:00pm
- Age
- Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
Tickets On Sale: Thursday 14 May 2026, 10am
Jasper Eaglesfield No Garden, No Flowers (c.3 mins)
Britten Les Illuminations (c.22 mins)
interval
Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (c.22 mins)
Erika Baikoff soprano
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
What dreams may come: the night holds its terrors, but it’s a time for fantasy, too. When the 27-year-old Benjamin Britten encountered the sensual, surreal imagination of the poet Arthur Rimbaud… well, the result was Les Illuminations, and maybe it’s best to let the music do the talking. You can be sure that our soloist Erika Baikoff won’t hold back: this BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist is already famous for her “pure and very expressive” voice. First comes a brand new work from one of Britain’s most original young musical dramatists, and then Ryan Wigglesworth waltzes us off to the silken, seductive Vienna of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. It’s a love story, of course, and musical dreams don’t come much sweeter.
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Restoration fund
From 1 September 2024, for any new events going on sale at our Concert Halls venues (Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, City Halls and Old Fruitmarket and Kelvingrove Bandstand), a new Restoration Fund of £1.50 per ticket may be added at checkout. View the full Restoration Fund T&Cs.
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