The school encourages audience members to book attendance spaces for in-person performances, which are returning after a 18 month hiatus, offering a number of concerts for free. The Autumn Piano Festival, symphonic concerts, jazz, opera and musical theatre performances are all on offer, and RAM’s schedule for the autumn term is full of performances to attend.
Royal Academy Opera welcomes audiences back to the Susie Sainsbury Theatre from November for a double bill production of one-act operas – Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi – directed by Stephen Barlow and conducted by Alice Farnham. In addition, the Musical Theatre Company is producing performances of ‘Hello Jerry!’ A Celebration of Herman in the Susie Sainsbury Theatre from December.
The school will be putting on 29 performances in 2021 from the ongoing 200 PIECES series, which contains 200 new solo works composed to celebrate the academy’s bicentenary in 2022.
Curated by head of piano, Joanna MacGregor, this year’s Autumn Piano Festival is titled 'The Art of Transcription', and is free to attend on 3 November. This theme is examined across five recitals, which include performances of piano transcriptions of music by Strauss, Wagner, Mahler and Rachmaninov.
The in-person events feature more than 50 performances and 10 masterclasses, while previous concerts in September and October will be live streamed for free on YouTube. The virtual stream is building on RAM’s successful online concerts which have reached a global audience of over 200,000 people over the past year.
Many performances in the second half of term are free to attend, with booking required via the website from 15 September.
To read RAM’s November to December 2021 diary of events, click here.
To read RAM’s September to October 2021 diary of events, click here.
