WHAT'S ON AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON
What's On at the Royal Albert Hall, London
The Royal Albert Hall was opened by Queen Victoria herself in 1871 and named after her beloved husband. The venue, located in South Kensington, has a seating capacity of 5272. The venue has been home to the BBC Proms every summer since they began in 1941.
The Royal Albert Hall hosts concerts, events, productions and events ranging from classical, opera, pop, rock, comedy, dance, live orchestra film screenings, sports, awards, charity and national events, including the Festival Of Remembrance, The Olivier Awards, Cirque du Soleil, and The Royal Variety Show. Premieres include 101 Dalmatians, James Bond, and the Harry Potter series.
The Royal Albert Hall was a meeting place for The Suffragettes. Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle made speeches there. The likes of Rachmaninov, Dame Shirley Bassey, Eric Clapton, and Muhammad Ali have appeared at the venue. Events to look forward to include Eric Clapton, Holly Johnson, Brandi Carlisle, Ludovico Einaudi, Eric Idle and the BBC Proms. You can book tickets online below for the Royal Albert Halls.
The Royal Albert Hall was opened by Queen Victoria herself in 1871 and named after her beloved husband. The venue, located in South Kensington, has a seating capacity of 5272. The venue has been home to the BBC Proms every summer since they began in 1941.
The Royal Albert Hall hosts concerts, events, productions and events ranging from classical, opera, pop, rock, comedy, dance, live orchestra film screenings, sports, awards, charity and national events, including the Festival Of Remembrance, The Olivier Awards, Cirque du Soleil, and The Royal Variety Show. Premieres include 101 Dalmatians, James Bond, and the Harry Potter series.
The Royal Albert Hall was a meeting place for The Suffragettes. Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle made speeches there. The likes of Rachmaninov, Dame Shirley Bassey, Eric Clapton, and Muhammad Ali have appeared at the venue. Events to look forward to include Eric Clapton, Holly Johnson, Brandi Carlisle, Ludovico Einaudi, Eric Idle and the BBC Proms. You can book tickets online below for the Royal Albert Halls.
Most Popular Shows and Events at Royal Albert Hall, London
What's On at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Ministry of Sound Classical
Royal Albert Hall, London
Friday 12 - Saturday 13 June 2026
Following sold out shows in 2023 and 2024, two of London's great music institutions are back together again for one iconic show as Ministry of Sound Classical returns. The greatest dance compilations of all-time hit the stage with your fa...Arabs Are Not Funny
Elgar Room
Friday 12 June 2026
The acclaimed comedy night is back for another edition. The funniest Arabs in UK are back on stage, in the flesh, funnier than ever before. Widely regarded as one of the hottest comedy nights among the Arab community and beyond, Arabs Are...Bassem Youssef
Royal Albert Hall, London
Sunday 14 June 2026
After a long career as a respected heart surgeon, Bassem Youssef has become one of the most influential and poignant satirists and political commentators from the Middle East. He shot to fame after treating the wounded during the Arab Sprin...Tannaz Beigi
Elgar Room
Sunday 14 June 2026
Tannaz Beigi is a distinguished Iranian harpist and the first from her country to study harp at the Royal College of Music in London. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree with Elizabeth Bass and Ieuan Jones, supported by a full ...Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Royal Albert Hall, London
Monday 15 June 2026
As the playful billing suggests, the show will feature numbers drawn from record releases from My Aim Is True in 1977 to Blood & Chocolate in 1986, along with other surprises. Those nine years saw the first appearance of some of Elvis Coste...Stories from the Archive Royal Albert Hall Tour
Royal Albert Hall, London
Monday 15 June - Saturday 24 October 2026
Explore the history of the Royal Albert Hall with the Stories from the Archive Tour. Led by knowledgeable guides and fantastic archivists, uncover untold stories and explore rarely seen curiosities in the new archive space. During a tour ...AK Patterson
Elgar Room
Wednesday 17 June 2026
AK Patterson is a London-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her distinctive sound is defined by an unconventional approach to songwriting and her mastery of unusual guitar tunings. Having been compared to Jeff Buckley, she ...Les Misérables - The Arena Spectacular
Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 June 2026
Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular will embark on a World Tour to over 15 countries and regions from September 2024. Expanded from the beloved musical phenomenon, now entering its 39th revolutionary year in London, this spectacular produc...ABNA
Elgar Room
Thursday 18 June 2026
Hailing from South London, ABNA brings a bold, contemporary edge to the classic jazz trio. Their raw, energetic sound - powered by saxophone, bass, and drums - is elevated by the addition of electronic textures, creating dynamic, layered...Supriya Nagarajan - MELTWATER
Elgar Room
Tuesday 23 June 2026
MELTWATER is a 60-minute immersive performance exploring the fragile beauty and accelerating loss of the polar ice caps. Created by composer and vocalist Supriya Nagarajan, the work weaves evocative Indian vocals with contemporary instrumen...Royal Albert Hall Tour
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 23 June 2026
Together with a friendly guide, take a peek at the royal areas of the Hall, see the breathtaking auditorium, and the stage that's hosted some of the world's biggest changemakers, history-shapers and stars - from Arctic Monkeys to Muhammad A...English National Ballet - The Sleeping Beauty
Auditorium
Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 June 2026
For wonder and enchantment, look no further than this classic fairy tale ballet: Kenneth MacMillan's The Sleeping Beauty will leave you spellbound. Experience all that is grand, gleaming and gorgeous with English National Ballet in this stu...Nadine Khouri
Elgar Room
Thursday 25 June 2026
Nadine Khouri is a British-Lebanese musician and songwriter currently living in Marseille. Influenced by alternative folk, film soundtracks and spoken-word poetry, her sound has been described as a "music born of perennial outsider-status."...Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 30 June 2026
Currently co-starring as The Wizard of Oz with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the critically acclaimed global box office smash, "Wicked", Jeff Goldblum's storied career now spans 6 decades of award-winning work as a starring actor in fi...10cc
Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 1 July 2026
One of the UK's most innovative and influential bands, Mancunian art pop and soft rock legends 10cc return with the typically tongue-in-cheek 'And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour' - celebrating a genre-defying repertoire that continue...Baby Broadway
Elgar Room
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Baby Broadway is an interactive experience where the entire family can sing and dance along to tunes from classic musicals and films, performed by West End singers. Little ones will delight in the bubbles, charming puppets, lively actio...
RCMJD Jazz Ensemble
Elgar Room
Thursday 2 July 2026
The Royal College of Music Junior Department Jazz Ensemble performs regularly at the RCM, together with annual gigs at the Royal Albert Hall and 606 Club. Their lively, eclectic repertoire features music from the swing era of the 1930's ...Relaxed Tours
Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 2 July 2026
Together with a friendly guide, you?ll take a peek at the royal areas of the Hall, see the breath-taking auditorium, and the stage that?s hosted some of the world?s biggest change-makers, history-shapers and stars....The Temptations & The Four Tops
Royal Albert Hall, London
Friday 3 July 2026
Celebrated as two of the most influential names in soul, The Temptations and The Four Tops unite once again to deliver a powerhouse evening of timeless hits, signature choreography, soaring harmonies, and pure Motown magic. Their 2026 UK to...The Strongman Classic
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 4 July 2026
Witness strength sport and entertainment at its absolute best and biggest in the incredible surroundings of the Hall! The Strongman Classic will deliver the epic, blood-pumping action Giants Live are known for, but with an old-time stron...Strongman Classic 2026 Tickets
Aziz Ansari
Auditorium
Saturday 11 July 2026
Award-winning actor, director, writer and comedian, Aziz Ansari co-created, writes, directs, and stars in the Netflix original series Master of None for which he has won two Emmy's for Outstanding Comedy Writing as well as Emmy and DGA Awar...Inverno Quartet
Elgar Room
Saturday 11 July 2026
Formed at the Royal College of Music in September 2022, the Inverno Quartet comprises three postgraduate students and one undergraduate. Inverno Quartet regularly perform at the Royal College of Music's Performance Hall, Amaryllis Flemming ...The Music of Hans Zimmer vs John Williams
Royal Albert Hall, London
Sunday 12 July 2026
A Cinematic Battle of Epic Proportions. Prepare for an unforgettable evening as the music from two of the greatest film composers of all time go head-to-head. Experience the best of Hans Zimmer and John Williams as a 70-piece concert or...Yumiko Morioka, Nick Luscombe & James Greer
Elgar Room
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Resonance, the seminal 1987 Japanese environmental music work, receives its European live premiere as Yumiko Morioka performs alongside collaborators Nick Luscombe and James Greer of MSCTY Studio. The trio will also present their new...Candice Carty-Williams
Elgar Room
Wednesday 15 July 2026
Two books, two tracks, one person. First Five invites artists, innovators and cultural leaders to share the stories behind five things that have shaped them. First Five Live cannot wait to welcome award winning author and showrunner behind ...Karim Kamar + Camden Stewart
Elgar Room
Thursday 16 July 2026
Karim Kamar is a neo-classical pianist and composer from London. He has been performing as a solo pianist since 2013 and has built a reputation as an outstanding and unique composer and performer, with his music being featured on televisio...BBC Proms - First Night of the Proms
Auditorium
Friday 17 July 2026
Dalia Stasevska and massed BBC forces launch the 2026 season with an American accent. The widescreen vision of Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man zooms in to teeming city streets in Gershwin's 'rhapsodic ballet' An American in Pari...BBC Proms - Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man
Auditorium
Saturday 18 July 2026
Award-winning broadcaster and BBC Radio 6 Music host Stuart Maconie presents brand-new orchestral arrangements from the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ames, of music by ELP, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance ...BBC Proms - Boléro: Rhythms of Spain
Auditorium
Sunday 19 July 2026
The Spanish National Orchestra makes its Proms debut under Chief Conductor David Afkham, bringing with it a set of heat-soaked musical postcards. Spanish guitar phenomenon Rafael Aguirre joins the ensemble for Rodrigo's much-loved Co...BBC Proms - Black Dyke Band
Auditorium
Sunday 19 July 2026
Yorkshire's esteemed Black Dyke Band shows off its virtuosity and versatility in a programme of contemporary pieces, arrangements of popular classics and excerpts from soundtracks by John Williams and Hans Zimmer. ...BBC Proms - Beethoven's Ninth
Auditorium
Monday 20 July 2026
Genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe returns as soloist in the UK premiere of American composer Jessie Montgomery's These Righteous Paths - inspired by her late mother, the poet and playwright Robbie McCauley. The concert ...BBC Proms - Also sprach Zarathustra
Auditorium
Tuesday 21 July 2026
'Sensational' 2025 Sibelius Competition-winner Sueye Park makes her Proms debut, joining John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Sibelius's Violin Concerto. All fire and ice, a love song for the composer's ow...BBC Proms - Late Night Baroque
Auditorium
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Formed in 2018 by lutenist Thomas Dunford, the Jupiter Ensemble has enthused audiences around the world. The period-instrument collective makes its Proms debut in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque ...BBC Proms - Mahler's Tragic Sixth
Auditorium
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Heroes fall but fight on in a programme of monumental soundscapes, poised on the edge of life and death. Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrate the centenary of Hungary's greatest living composer, Gyorgy Kurtag, with a ra...BBC Proms - Afterlife: Visions of the Beyond
Auditorium
Thursday 23 July 2026
Music pierces the veil between heaven and earth in a spiritually charged concert that opens in contemplation and ends in the blaze of ascension and transfiguration. Voices are raised in prayer in Lili Boulanger's haunting Vieille priere b...BBC Proms - John Wilson Conducts Respighi's Roman Trilogy
Auditorium
Friday 24 July 2026
John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London - hailed by critics as 'peerless' and 'simply as good as it gets' - are back for the first of two concerts this season. Ottorino Respighi's love affair with Rome is captured in a trilogy of orchestr...BBC Proms: John Wilson Conducts Respighi's ‘Roman Trilogy'
Royal Albert Hall, London
Friday 24 July 2026
John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London return to the Proms for the first of two concerts, performing Respighi?s trilogy of Rome-inspired tone-poems alongside the Walton?s rhapsodic Cello Concerto. Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard makes h...BBC Proms - Horrible Science: The Big Bang Proms Experiment
Auditorium
Saturday 25 July 2026
Join Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as they share the DNA of CBBC's hit comedy sketch show Horrible Science live at the Royal Albert Hall with some scientifically proven bangers from the classical canon. They'll be joined by some of the ...BBC Proms - Poulenc and Adams
Auditorium
Sunday 26 July 2026
'Breathtaking' Dutch siblings Lucas and Arthur Jussen make their Proms debut, joined by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Kazuki Yamada. The human voice 'riding upon waves of rippling sound' was the starting ...BBC Proms - Olivier Latry Plays Bach
Auditorium
Sunday 26 July 2026
Titular Organist of the Grand Organ at Notre-Dame in Paris, Olivier Latry returns for an all-Bach programme with a twist. Hear the Royal Albert Hall's organ put through its paces in arrangements and improvisations on Bach by great organ...BBC Proms - From the Alps to the Auvergne
Auditorium
Monday 27 July 2026
'Glorious' soprano Louise Alder - soloist at last year's Last Night of the Proms - returns, performing luscious miniatures, not heard at the Proms since 2010. Step into the great outdoors with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmon...BBC Proms - Sibelius's Second
Auditorium
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Fifty years since Benjamin Britten's death, former BBC Young Musician winner Guy Johnston brings the composer's Cello Symphony to the Proms. Originally written for Mstislav Rostropovich, it's the composer at his most intense: a tour de...BBC Proms: Sibelius's Second
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Guy Johnston is the soloist in Benjamin Britten?s Cello Symphony. He joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, who also perform Sibelius?s Symphony No. 2 and the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage?s Festen Suite....BBC Proms - Elgar's First
Auditorium
Wednesday 29 July 2026
Two contemporary works open this concert by Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: the world premiere of The World's Wife by Brett Dean - setting words by Carol Ann Duffy - and Judith Weir's Moon and Star - c...BBC Proms - Korngold's Violin Concerto
Auditorium
Thursday 30 July 2026
A symphony 'on the greatness of the human soul' and a cinematic concerto collide in a concert of widescreen orchestral soundscapes. 'Utterly captivating' violinist Alena Baeva is the soloist in Korngold's Violin Concerto - a work imbue...BBC Proms - Bruch's Violin Concerto
Auditorium
Friday 31 July 2026
Omer Meir Wellber, a former Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, conducts one of Europe's leading orchestras, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Haydn's Symphony No. 44, written at the height of his fame in Europe - embodies the braci...BBC Proms - Mahler's First by Heart
Auditorium
Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 August 2026
All the floodgates within me have opened ... my whole being points me towards this symphony.' Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra are back to lift the bonnet on another symphonic masterwork with two performances. F...BBC Proms 2026 - Mahler's First by Heart Tickets
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 August 2026
BBC Proms at London Royal Albert Hall...BBC Proms - Kavakos Plays Tchaikovsky
Auditorium
Sunday 2 August 2026
'Impeccable' Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Jarvi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for one of the great Romantic concertos. Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is a deeply personal work, laden with the emotions of a failed ma...BBC Proms 2026 - Rachmaninov's ‘Paganini' Variations Tickets
BBC Proms: Rachmaninov's ‘Paganini' Variations
Royal Albert Hall, London
Monday 3 August 2026
Kirill Gerstein is soloist in Rachmaninov?s glittering Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. He joins Thomas S?nderg?rd and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, who also perform Shostakovich?s Symphony No. 11 and Knussen?s Flourish with Firewo...BBC Proms 2026 - Dvořák and Mendelssohn Tickets
BBC Proms: Dvořák and Mendelssohn
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 4 August 2026
Elena Schwarz and the BBC National Orchestral of Wales perform Dvo??k?s passionate Symphony No. 7 alongside Zimmermann?s 1950 Fairy-Tale Suite and Mendelssohn?s famous Violin Concerto, with Proms regular Alina Ibragimova as soloist....BBC Proms 2026 - Rachmaninov's Second Tickets
BBC Proms 2026 - Under African Skies - The Songs of Graceland Tickets
BBC Proms: Rachmaninov's Second
Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Manchester?s Hall? orchestra and its Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong return to the Proms for Rachmaninov?s lush, expansive Symphony No. 2. We also hear French masterpieces by Nadia Boulanger and Ravel....BBC Proms: Under African Skies - The Songs of Graceland
Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 5 August 2026
South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo make their Proms debut 50 years on from the Soweto Uprising and 40 years since the release of Paul Simon?s era-defining album Graceland, which brought the group to international attention....BBC Proms 2026 - Elder Conducts Weber's ‘Oberon' Tickets
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