Akira Kurosawa’s profound adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the historical backdrop of Japan’s 16th century Civil ...

Lotfi Achour's previous short films Father (Père) and Law of Lamb (La Laine sur le dos) both screened in the short film ...

Browse concerts from the Barbican Contemporary Music programme, including artists from all forms of music, experimental collaborations and new talent.

Please read our safety information so you can enjoy your visit. Show your e-ticket at the 'Tours Meeting Point' outside The Barbican Shop, on Level G. Our Architecture Tours take place predominantly ...

On a magical island, a young hero makes sweet music with a beautiful sorceress. In old Vienna, a veteran composer encounters a fabulous new instrument – and finds he’s young again. And Ludwig van ...

The result is a joyful, occasionally furious, never too serious, energetic yet restful collection of tracks which dazzle with Anna Meredith’s signature compulsive harmonies, rhythmic shifts of gear ...

Thought lost for four decades, and rediscovered in 2019 in a Berlin archive, Prem Kapoor’s intense melodrama follows Sarnam (Nitin Sethi), a truck driver with a criminal past who is attracted to ...

This showcase brings together the Orchestra with participants from all across LSO Discovery’s work. Our programme will explore the transformative power of music and the vital role of ‘the artist’.

In February Evgeny Kissin anchored performances of Shostakovich’s sonatas for violin, viola, and cello. Now he returns to play the lean, sometimes wistful Second Piano Sonata as well as excerpts from ...

Classical Pride, now in its third year, exists to spotlight queer composers of the past, present and future, giving a voice and a platform to this community that has been instrumental in the ...

LGBTQ+ voices have always had a presence in classical music, and for Classical Pride 2025 they’ll ring loud and proud within the vocal-led programme Voices of Pride. The glittering finale of Classical ...

Adela (José Luis López Vázquez de la Torre) is a spinster who is desperately unhappy. Convinced there is something wrong with her – owing to a need to shave regularly and her complex romantic feelings ...