Ludlow Arts: Classical
2025-26 Season
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
6:45pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Puccini's Tosca
In war-torn Rome, Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy in the form of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police. At the mercy of Scarpia’s twisted desires, Tosca is forced to make a horrific bargain ...read more...
Tickets £18 (u18: £7) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Saturday 4 October 2025
4:00pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Thomas Trotter, organ
Works by Handel, Whitlock, Bonnal, Wagner and Rossini.
Thomas Trotter is one of Britain's most widely admired musicians, reflected in Her Majesty the Queen awarding him The Queen's Medal for Music on St Cecilia's Day 2020. He has had a special relationship with the City of Birmingham since he was appointed City Organist in 1983. ...read more...
Tickets, £12, from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office soon.
Saturday 11 October 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Seasons
Edge Chamber Choir
Works by Ian James Veitch (Summer Days — world première), Elgar, Ireland, Lili Boulanger, Poulenc, Kosma, Cecilia McDowall, Veljo Tormis, Joanna Marsh and Sally Beamish.
Linking to the concert's theme, canapés by CSons will be served in the interval. ...read more...
Tickets: £15 HERE (U18 free).
Tuesday 21 October 2025
6:45pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Bellini's La Sonnambula
Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón ...read more...
Tickets £18 (u18: £7) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Thursday 23 October 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Thursday Classical — Ravel at 150
A welcome return to Ludlow of Fenella Humphreys and Martin Roscoe with a programme that celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth in March 1875; with three works by Ravel himself and complementary works by Fauré, Lili Boulanger and Vaughan Williams. ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18s £7) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Thursday 6 November 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Rêverie — the Life and Loves of Debussy
Lucy Parham, piano
Simon Russell Beale, narrator
Ahead of a performance at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall, Festival favourite, pianist Lucy Parham, returns with another of this country’s leading actors, Sir Simon Russell Beale, ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Thursday 20 November 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
London Chamber Ensemble Quartet
This is the first of two concerts this season by the London Chamber Ensemble both with programmes including neglected works by British composers as well as concert hall favourites. Madeleine Mitchell will be returning on 12 March ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18s £7) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Saturday 22 November 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Ludlow Orchestra
Works by Haydn, Saint Saëns and Louise Ferrenc.
Haydn's ever-fresh Symphony No.100, gets its nickname Military from the allegretto second movement which prominently features trumpets and drums. The symphony is the second of Haydn's second set of 'London' Symphonies composed for his second visit in 1794. ...read more...
Tickets from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office soon.
Friday 28 November 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Mid Wales Opera
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti.
Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti bubbles with jazzy flair and biting satire. This one-act gem takes aim at suburban 'paradise', where cocktail hours and consumer bliss can’t mask the cracks in a picture-perfect marriage. ...read more...
Tickets: £22 (u21 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Saturday 6 December 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Ludlow Choral Society
Handel in Italy
Works by Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Lotti and Corelli performed by Ludlow Choral Society and Ludlow Camerata.
Ludlow Choral Society’s December concert will take us to Italy, the birthplace of opera and oratorio, and back to the 18th Century. Handel, probably best known for Messiah, and other Baroque composers were drawn there in the early years of the century. ...read more...
Tickets £18 (18s and under free) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms HERE or at the door.