LONDON MUSIC & THEATRE

London is one of the major classical and popular music capitals of the world. The city is also home to many orchestras and concert halls, such as the Barbican Arts Centre, Cadogan Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. London's two main opera houses are the Royal Opera House and the Coliseum Theatre.

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MUSIC & THEATRE: Abbey Road Studios, Barbican Centre, Brixton Academy, Cadogan Hall, Coliseum Theatre, Earl's Court, O2 Arena, The Proms, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Music, Royal Opera House, Shakespeare's Globe, Trinity College of Music, Wembley Arena, Wireless Festival,

ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio located at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of EMI, its present owner. It is most notable for being the venue in the 1960s for innovative recording techniques adopted by The Beatles, Badfinger, Pink Floyd and others ...

BARBICAN CENTRE Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the north of the City of London, in the heart of the Barbican Estate, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory ...

BRIXTON ACADEMY The Brixton Academy, officially called O2 Academy, Brixton, is one of London's leading music venues, nightclubs and theatres. Situated in Brixton, South London, England, the building has hosted a range of leading rock acts since becoming a music venue in 1983. The venue started life as a cinema and theatre in 1929 on the site of a private garden in Stockwell Road ...

CADOGAN HALL Cadogan Hall is a 900-seat capacity concert hall on Sloane Terrace in Chelsea / Belgravia in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is two minutes' walk from Sloane Square Underground station. Previously, the building was the First Church of Christ, Scientist, completed in 1907 to designs in the Byzantine style by the architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm ...

COLISEUM THEATRE The London Coliseum (also known as the Coliseum Theatre) is an opera house and major performing venue on St. Martin's Lane, central London. It is one of London's largest and best equipped theatres and opened in 1904, designed by theatrical architect Frank Matcham (designer of the London Palladium), for impresario Oswald Stoll ...

EARL'S COURT The Earls Court Exhibition Centre is an exhibition centre, conference and event venue located in west London, UNited Kingdom in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . It is the largest exhibition venue in central London. It is served by two underground stations, Earl's Court and West Brompton, opposite its entrances on Warwick Road and the Old Brompton Road ...

O2 ARENA The O2 Arena (referred to as North Greenwich Arena in context of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the centre of The O2, a large entertainment complex on the Greenwich peninsula in London, England. With a capacity of up to 20,000, depending on the event, it is one of the largest indoor arenas in Europe ...

THE PROMS The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London. Founded in 1895, each season currently consists of over 70 concerts in the Albert Hall ...

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas Bochsa and in 1830 was granted a Royal Charter by King George IV ...

ROYAL ALBERT HALL The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated in the South Kensington area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941. The Royal Albert Hall is one of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, recognisable all over the world ...

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC The Royal College of Music is a conservatorie founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England. The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry. The first building was opposite the west side to the Royal Albert Hall but by 1887 the college was seeking to move to larger premises ...

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply 'Covent Garden', after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House ...

SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, located on the south bank of the River Thames, but destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt 1614 then demolished in 1644. The modern reconstruction, of the 1614 building, was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker ...

TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban. The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren. The College also owns the nearby Blackheath Halls — concert halls in nearby Blackheath village ...

WEMBLEY ARENA Wembley Arena (originally Empire Pool) is an indoor arena, at Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium. It was built for the 1934 Empire Games, by Arthur Elvin and originally housed a swimming pool, as reflected by its former name, 'Empire Pool'. The pool itself was last used for the 1948 Summer Olympics ...

WIRELESS FESTIVAL The Wireless Festival is a music festival in England that takes place every year in Hyde Park, London. It is owned and managed by Live Nation. From its inception in 2005 until 2008, the festival was sponsored by telecommunications company O2, and was called the O2 Wireless Festival. Since 2009 the main sponsor has been Barclaycard ...

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