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
BBC Proms: András Schiff Plays Bach
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 23 August 2025
Following acclaimed Proms performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the ?Goldberg? Variations, Sir Andras Schiff returns to the Proms for a musical high point of his career-long relationship with Bach?s music: The Art of Fugue...BBC Proms: Mäkelä Conducts Mahler's Fifth
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 23 August 2025
Hear Klaus M?kel? at the Proms for the first time as Chief Conductor Designate of the mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performing Berio?s Rendering alongside Mahler?s Fifth Symphony with its famous Adagietto...BBC Proms 2025 - Mäkelä Conducts Mozart Prokofiev & Bartók Tickets
BBC Proms: Mäkelä Conducts Mozart Prokofiev & Bartók
Royal Albert Hall, London
Sunday 24 August 2025
Klaus M?kela and Amsterdam?s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are joined by celebrated violinist Janine Jansen for Prokofiev?s effervescent Violin Concerto No. 1. Mozart?s Symphony No. 1 and Bart?k?s Concerto for orchestra bookend the evening....BBC Proms 2025 - CBeebies Prom - A Magical Bedtime Story Tickets
BBC Proms: CBeebies Prom - A Magical Bedtime Story
Royal Albert Hall, London
Monday 25 August 2025
Join the Sinfonia Smith Square, CBeebies friends and a special guest in the Bedtime Stories chair as they share an enchanting musical tale. Don?t miss this entertaining introduction to the orchestra for little ones....BBC Proms 2025 - Sibelius's Second Tickets
BBC Proms: Sibelius's Second
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 26 August 2025
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra returns to the Proms under Music Director Andris Nelsons for Sibelius?s elemental Symphony No. 2. They are joined in the first half by Hilary Hahn, soloist in Dvo??k?s colourful, folk-inspired Violin Concert...BBC Proms 2025 - ‘The Marriage of Figaro' from Glyndebourne Tickets
BBC Proms: ‘The Marriage of Figaro' from Glyndebourne
Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 27 August 2025
Fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival, the Proms presents this concert-staging of a brand-new production of Mozart?s masterpiece of tangled desires, The Marriage of Figaro....BBC Proms 2025 - Saint-Saëns's ‘Organ' Symphony Tickets
BBC Proms: Saint-Saëns's ‘Organ' Symphony
Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 28 August 2025
An all-French programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot sees Bizet?s incidental music for ?The Girl from Arles? given alongside his famous ?Habanera? reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate....BBC Proms 2025 - Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Tchaikovsky Tickets
BBC Proms: Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Tchaikovsky
Royal Albert Hall, London
Friday 29 August 2025
An all-French programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot sees Bizet?s incidental music for ?The Girl from Arles? given alongside his famous ?Habanera? reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate...BBC Proms 2025 - Handel's ‘Alexander's Feast' Tickets
BBC Proms 2025 - Rattle Conducts Folk Songs and Dances Tickets
BBC Proms: Handel's ‘Alexander's Feast'
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 30 August 2025
Award-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra make their Proms debut with Handel?s oratorio Alexander?s Feast, given here in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742....BBC Proms: Rattle Conducts Folk Songs and Dances
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 30 August 2025
Sir Simon Rattle teams up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra to perform folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller?s eclectic trombone concerto....BBC Proms 2025 - Pekka Kuusisto and Katarina Barruk Tickets
BBC Proms: Pekka Kuusisto and Katarina Barruk
Royal Albert Hall, London
Sunday 31 August 2025
Pekka Kuusisto brings the strings of his Norwegian Chamber Orchestra to the Proms with singer and composer Katarina Barruk, performing songs that combine the traditional and the modern....BBC Proms 2025 - Shostakovich's ‘Lady Macbeth' Tickets
BBC Proms: Shostakovich's ‘Lady Macbeth'
Royal Albert Hall, London
Monday 1 September 2025
In Shostakovich?s anniversary year, a chance to hear his blistering operatic tragedy with Amanda Majeski starring as Katerina and Nicky Spence as her lover Sergey....BBC Proms 2025 - Adès Conducts the BBC SO Tickets
BBC Proms: Adès Conducts the BBC SO
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 2 September 2025
Composer and conductor Thomas Ade?s joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius?s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela....BBC Proms 2025 - St. Vincent Tickets
BBC Proms: St. Vincent
Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 3 September 2025
St. Vincent makes her BBC Proms debut in a unique collaboration with Jules Buckley and his orchestra, performing brand-new symphonic arrangements of tracks from her eclectic back catalogue....BBC Proms 2025 - Classic Thriller Soundtracks Tickets
BBC Proms: Classic Thriller Soundtracks
Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 4 September 2025
Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor and Curator Edwin Outwater for a concert rich with suspense and drama, as they celebrate anniversary composer Bernard Herrmann and his iconic film scores....BBC Proms 2025 - Rattle Conducts Chineke Tickets
BBC Proms: Rattle Conducts Chineke
Royal Albert Hall, London
Friday 5 September 2025
The Chineke! Orchestra, conducted for the first time by Sir Simon Rattle, performs Shostakovich?s 10th Symphony: over 50 minutes of brutality, violence, despair and terror, followed by two minutes of defiance....
BBC Proms 2025 - Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein Tickets
BBC Proms: Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 6 September 2025
South African soprano Golda Schultz returns to the Proms with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, performing songs by Bernstein, Gershwin, Weill and others. Schreker?s sensuous Chamber Symphony Stravinsky?s ballet The Firebird also feature....BBC Proms 2025 - Grieg's Piano Concerto Tickets
BBC Proms 2025 - Vaughan Williams's ‘A London Symphony' Tickets
BBC Proms: Grieg's Piano Concerto
Royal Albert Hall, London
Sunday 7 September 2025
Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg?s beloved Piano Concerto, accompanied by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra....BBC Proms: Vaughan Williams's ‘A London Symphony'
Royal Albert Hall, London
Sunday 7 September 2025
Rome, Paris, London: Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra take us on a musical tour of Europe, performing works by Respighi, Milhaud and Vaughan Williams....BBC Proms 2025 - Vienna Philharmonic Plays Bruckner's Ninth Tickets
BBC Proms: Vienna Philharmonic Plays Bruckner's Ninth
Royal Albert Hall, London
Monday 8 September 2025
One of the world?s great orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic concludes this year?s triptych of ninth symphonies with the grandest of them all, Bruckner?s Symphony No. 9. The concert opens with Berg?s Lulu Suite...BBC Proms 2025 - Avi Avital - Between Worlds Tickets
BBC Proms 2025 - Vienna Philharmonic Plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky Tickets
BBC Proms: Avi Avital - Between Worlds
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 9 September 2025
Join mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and his Between Worlds Ensemble for a sonic tour of the countries that boarder the Black Sea, as they perform traditional Crimean Tatar music, Turkish folk and klezmer and works by Bart?k and Fazil Say....BBC Proms: Vienna Philharmonic Plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky
Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 9 September 2025
Franz Welser-M?st and the Vienna Philharmonic round off their Proms visits with two late, great symphonies: Mozart?s ?Prague? and Tchaikovsky?s ?Path?tique?....BBC Proms 2025 - Rachmaninov's Second Symphony Tickets
BBC Proms: Rachmaninov's Second Symphony
Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 10 September 2025
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Delyana Lazarova are joined by Anastasia Kobekina for Shostakovich?s supremely demanding Cello Concerto No. 1. Rachmaninov?s Second, ultimate Romantic symphony, makes up the second half....BBC Proms 2025 - Brahms's Second Symphony Tickets
BBC Proms: Brahms's Second Symphony
Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 11 September 2025
Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by Gabrieli alongside Stravinsky?s last major work, the Requiem Canticles. Brahms?s happiest symphony, the Second, makes up the second half....BBC Proms 2025 - John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel Tickets
BBC Proms: John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel
Royal Albert Hall, London
Friday 12 September 2025
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London present a passion-soaked programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces: Ravel?s ballet Daphnis and Chloe, Bernstein?s lyrical Serenade and Richard Strauss?s Don Juan....BBC Proms 2025 - Last Night of the Proms 2025 Tickets
BBC Proms: Last Night of the Proms 2025
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 13 September 2025
The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises, star turns and all the traditional favourites...Beethoven's Ninth 2025
Royal Albert Hall, London
Saturday 20 September 2025
Experience the grandeur of Beethoven at the Royal Albert Hall!...How to get to the Royal Albert Hall, London
Royal Albert Hall Frequently Asked Questions
Kensignton Gore, London, SW7 2AP
Car parking is available in Imperial College for evening performances via Exhibition Road.
Parking must be booked in advance.
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Tube - South Kensington and High Street Kensington
Bus - Kensington Gore, Queen's Gate, Prince Consort Road
The seating capacity of the Royal Albert Hall is 5272.
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