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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra new date added – tickets from £10!

Please note a £4 transaction applies, and also the offer is for best available seats, exc boxes

Wagner x Taneyev

Sunday 17 May 2026, 7.30pm

Royal Festival Hall 

Please note for the Royal Festival Hall offer applies to bands B-E only, note bands not rows

‘In this realm, time becomes space…’ From CS Lewis to Terry Gilliam, Wagner’s Parsifal has been an inspiration to the very greatest creative artists. Vasily Petrenko conducts a symphonic suite that weaves all the power and beauty of Wagner’s five-hour masterpiece into one sumptuous orchestral tapestry: music that glows from within, sounding more radiant than ever in the Royal Festival Hall.

Mozart’s noble Overture to The Magic Flute opens a portal to an evening filled with sacred mysteries, and then Vasily Petrenko introduces something rare and very beautiful from his native Russia. Today, Sergei Taneyev is almost forgotten in the west, but as far as Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff were concerned he was a genius, and this heartfelt choral masterpiece packs a mighty emotional punch.

Mozart The Magic Flute: Overture
Taneyev John of Damascus
Wagner Parsifal: Orchestral Suite

Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Philharmonia Chorus

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

  • 2 x best available seats @ £10* each (excludes box seats)
  • Insert promo code RPORR10 in top right-hand corner of booking page as per screengrab below
  • Read more or book HERE 

Rachmaninov, Hisaishi x Scriabin

Friday 5th June 7.30pm

Royal Festival Hall

Explore the dazzling cosmos of Scriabin’s Third Symphony

Some composers think bigger, but it takes a special sort of genius to create a whole new musical universe. Everything about Scriabin’s Third Symphony is larger than life, from the enormous orchestra to the galactic ambition of Scriabin’s inspiration – music that he described as ‘ecstatic’, ‘drunken’ and even ‘divine’! If you like Mahler, you’ll love ‘The Divine Poem’, and for Vasily Petrenko, it’s a passion – a musical experience that doesn’t come around every day.

It’ll make a thrilling, colourful counterpart to a delightful new work from Joe Hisaishi (My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away), starring three solo horns and bursting with all the imagination you’d expect from Studio Ghibli’s house composer – currently the RPO’s Composer-in-Association. Rachmaninoff’s evocative tone poem, inspired by a black and white reproduction of Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead painting, launches an evening full of wonders.

  • Full concert details: here
  • 2 x Band B-E seats @ £12* each (note BANDS NOT rows)
  • Promo code: RPORR10 (N.B.: NO ampersand is included in promo code)
  • Book here (insert promo code in top right-hand corner of booking page)

*Terms & conditions:

·           All requests are subject to availability

·           Ticket price includes a £2 venue restation levy (charged per ticket)

·           A £4 venue transaction fee will also apply (charged once per transaction)