The Barbican has today announced the classical music programme for its upcoming for 2024-2025 season with performances by its resident, associate and partner ensembles as well as international guests.
On the opera stage, composer Rolf Hind presents his Sky in a Small Cage, created with Mahogany Opera, in September, while the BBCSO presents an operatic semi-staging of David Henry Hwang’s Broadway play M. Butterfly with music by Huang Ruo and libretto by Hwang and LOD muziektheater and Toneelhuis tell a story of resistance to colonial injustice in Ghana through Gorges Ocloo’s ‘Afropera’ The Golden Stool in October.