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Concerts

  • Sat 27 Jun 2026

    The Bridgewater Hall

    ABBA Symphonica

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    • ABBA Overture
    • ABBA Waterloo
    • Honey Honey
    • SOS
    • Money Money Money
    • Knowing Me Knowing You
    • The Name of the Game
    • Chiquitita
    • Take a Chance on Me
    • Does Your Mother Know
    • Voulez Vous
    • Super Trouper
    • The Winner Takes It All
    • I Have a Dream
    • Fernando
    • Lay All Your Love On Me
    • Gimme Gimme Gimme
    • Mamma Mia
    • Dancing Queen

  • Sat 4 Jul 2026

    The Bridgewater Hall

    100 Years of Movie Songs

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    • Gershwin Girl Crazy Overture
    • Arlen/Harburg Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz)
    • Rodgers & Hammerstein It Might as well be Spring (State Fair)
    • Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Disney)
    • Arlen/Gershwin The Man that got Away (A Star is Born)
    • Styne/Merrill Don't Rain on My Parade (Funny Girl)
    • Hamlisch/Bayer Sager Nobody Does It Better (The Spy Who Loved Me)
    • Conti Gonna Fly Now (Rocky)
    • Bacharach Arthur's Theme (Arthur)
    • Moroder/Whitlock Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
    • Horner Titanic Suite
    • Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You (The Bodyguard)
    • Menken Beauty and the Beast
    • Horner/Franglen I See You (Avatar)
    • Schönberg/Boubil/Kretzme On My Own (Les Miserables)
    • Lady Gaga & Mark Ronson I'll Never Love Again (A Star is Born)
    • Anderson-Lopez Frozen Medley
    • Bricusse/Newley Pure Imagination (Wonka)
    • Schwarz Defying Gravity (Wicked)

  • Sun 5 Jul 2026

    Roundhay Park

    The Hallé at Roundhay Festival

  • Sat 11 Jul 2026

    The Bridgewater Hall

    Choral Classics

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    • Handel Zadok the Priest (5')
    • MacMillan O Radiant Dawn (4')
    • Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine (5')
    • Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves (4')
    • Stanford The Blue Bird (3')
    • Verdi Aida: Triumphal March & Ballet Music (8')
    • Orff Carmina Burana: O Fortuna (3')
    • Humperdinck Hansel & Gretel: Overture (8')
    • Humperdinck Hansel & Gretel: Brother dear (3')
    • Mozart Requiem: Lacrimosa (3')
    • Grieg Peer Gynt: Morning (4')
    • Grieg Peer Gynt: Hall of the Mountain King (3')
    • Handel Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus (4')
    • Raymond Wise I'll Stand (3')
    • Parry I Was Glad (7')

  • Thu 23 Jul 2026

    The Octagon Buxton

    The Hallé at Buxton International Festival 2026

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    • Weber Oberon Overture

    • R. Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat

    • Brahms Symphony No.4

  • Wed 5 Aug 2026

    Royal Albert Hall London

    BBC Proms – Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony

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    • Ravel
      • La vallée des cloches (orch. C. Matthews)
    • Nadia Boulanger
      • Fantasy for piano and orchestra
    • Rachmaninov
      • Symphony No.2 in E minor

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  • Thu 24 Sep 2026

    The Bridgewater Hall

    Opening Night

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    • Liszt Les préludes (16')

    • James MacMillan Symphony No.6 (Hallé Commission - World Premiere) (30')

    • Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 'Emperor' (38')
    Before the concert...
    ...at 6.30pm, join us for a pre-concert talk in the main hall with Hallé Chief Executive David Butcher, Kahchun Wong and James MacMillan.

  • Sun 4 Oct 2026

    The Bridgewater Hall

    The Hallé and Opera Rara: Offenbach’s Barkouf

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    • Offenbach Barkouf (145')

  • Thu 8 & Sun 11 Oct 2026

    The Bridgewater Hall

    Prokofiev’s Symphony No.5

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    • Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 (39')

    • Prokofiev Symphony No.5 (46')

  • Fri 9 Oct 2026

    Hallé St Peter's

    Chamber Series: Saint-Saëns Septet

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    • Saint-Saëns Septet

    • John Casken Enchant (World Premiere)