WHAT'S ON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER
What's On at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
What's On at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Leona Lewis
Monday 11 December 2023
Record-breaking global sensation Leona Lewis offers an evening of Christmas classics and greatest hits, following the release of Christmas, With Love Always, the special repackaged release of her 2013 studio album Christmas, With Love....
Music Makers
Monday 11 December 2023 - Monday 15 April 2024
Ticketed event in the Barbirolli Room....
The Bootleg Beatles
Tuesday 12 December 2023
The world's Premier Beatles band continues to draw critical acclaim with their flawless recreation of the greatest songbook in history. Tracing the Fab Four's journey through the swinging 60s, every tiny detail is forensically observed from...
The Definitive Rat Pack - The Rat Pack at Christmas
Thursday 14 December 2023
Featuring Dean Martin's sensational Golddiggers and the internationally-renowned Manhattan Swing Orchestra, with Stephen Triffitt as Frank Sinatra, Mark Adams as Dean Martin, and George Daniel Long as Sammy Davis Jr, The Definitive R...
Hallé Christmas Cracker
Friday 15 December 2023
The big day is just over a week away so why not get your celebrations started with this cracker of a concert? Conductor Stephen Bell will help you get into the Christmas spirit with festive songs and music performed by the award-winning Hal...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour with BSL
Friday 15 December 2023
Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall, and learn more about Manchester's iconic international concert venue. The entertaining and knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the building's history, its acoustics and arch...
Hallé Carol Concerts
Saturday 16 - Sunday 17 December 2023
The Halle's traditional Christmas celebration for orchestra, choirs and audience. Concert includes The First Nowell, Carol of the Bells, Star Carol, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Away in a Manger, The Holly and T...
Hallé Youth Orchestra
Saturday 16 December 2023
Celebrating its 21st season, the Halle Youth Orchestra welcomes its new Director, Euan Shields back to The Bridgewater Hall stage, where he won the 2023 Siemens Halle International Conductors Competition in March 2023. On winning this prest...
Aljaz and Janette - Dancing in a Winter Wonderland
Monday 18 December 2023
Last year, Strictly legends Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec made good on the promise to deliver the ultimate Christmas jukebox dance show. It was the perfect Christmas recipe. This year they will be dancing all the way to a Winter Wonde...
All I Want For Christmas...Live!
Tuesday 19 December 2023
Raymond Gubbay Limited presents a brand-new show that promises to bring joy and laughter to audiences of all ages. All I Want For Christmas... Live! boasts a spectacular blend of festive pop hits and traditional favourites, featuring a dazz...
The Muppet Christmas Carol In Concert
Wednesday 20 December 2023
Back by popular demand, Disney's much loved 1992 musical comedy The Muppet Christmas Carol returns to The Bridgewater Hall, the beloved festive movie brought to life by a talented orchestra performing its musical score live in time with the...
The Muppet Christmas Carol (U)
Wednesday 20 December 2023
★★★★ The Muppets do Dickens with that trademark blast of irreverence, affection and tap-along tunes. ~ The Times. --- A Christmas cinema screening of Brian Henson's 1992 classic, starring The Muppets and Michael Caine. The Muppets ...
Kate Rusby
Thursday 21 December 2023
Often hailed as the 'First Lady of Folk', Kate Rusby celebrates 30 years as a professional musician in 2022 with the release of a brand new album, "30 : Happy Returns" which features a stellar array of guest musicians who have all inspire...
Hallé - The Snowman + Gaspard's Christmas
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 December 2023
A must for all the family. Watch Raymond Briggs' classic animated film accompanied by the Halle performing Howard Blake's magical score. In the first half is Gaspard's Christmas, a heart-warming festive adventure for Britain's handsomest f...
Christmas Carol Singalong
Sunday 24 December 2023
Sing your way into Christmas as Jonathan Cohen leads you through the very best Christmas songs and seasonal classics in one irresistibly family friendly extravaganza. Frosty the Snowman Sleigh Ride Merry Christmas Everyone Santa Claus is Co...
Horrible Histories - Horrible Christmas
Tuesday 26 December 2023
Horrible Histories proudly presents the terrific tale of Christmas! When Christmas comes under threat from a jolly man dressed in red, it's up to one young boy to save the day - but can he save Christmas? From Victorian villains to Medieval...
The Music of Hans Zimmer vs John Williams
Wednesday 27 December 2023
An epic concert celebrating the very best epic scores from two of the greatest film composers of all time. Includes music from: GladiatorSupermanMan of SteelHarry PotterInceptionJurassic ParkThe Dark Knight RisesPirates of the CaribbeanHook...
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Thursday 28 December 2023
The sensational Glenn Miller Orchestra swings you back in time playing Glenn Miller's own arrangements of favourite wartime chart toppers and hits from the forties directed by legendary band leader Ray McVay. Featuring: Pennsylvania 6-5000,...
The Hallé - A Night At The Oscars
Friday 29 December 2023
A night of marvellous movie music with songs and themes from Oscar-winning films including: West Side Story, Frozen, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Beauty and the Beast, Ben Hur, The Lion King, Star Wars, Slumdog Millionaire, Titanic, Breakfas...
New Year's Eve: Signed Sealed Delivered
Sunday 31 December 2023
Celebrate New Year's Eve at The Bridgewater Hall with Signed, Sealed, Delivered, a brand-new concert featuring some of the most iconic and soulful tunes ever written, recorded by some of the era's most legendary performers. The night's fest...
Varna International Ballet - Swan Lake
Tuesday 2 - Wednesday 3 January 2024
The greatest romantic ballet of all time is brought to life by Tchaikovsky's haunting and unforgettable score. From the impressive splendour of the Palace ballroom to the moon-lit lake where swans glide in perfect formation, this compelli...
The Hallé - Viennese New Year
Saturday 6 January 2024
The Hall??s annual whirl round the dancefloors of Vienna, including polkas, waltzes and arias from Supp?, L?har, the Strauss family and more....
Benjamin Grosvenor
Friday 12 January 2024
A jewel box of romantic treasures performed by one of Britain's leading pianists, Royal Academy of Music trained Essex pianist Benjamin Grosvenor who is internationally recognised for his sonorous lyricism and understated brilliance at the...
Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age
Thursday 18 January 2024
What exactly is acting your age? And who decides? These are the questions Alan Cumming has been grappling with for a very long time. Cumming, at fifty-eight, is enjoying himself. "I feel I'm still at an age where I can dance till dawn...
The Hallé - Three Phantoms
Saturday 20 January 2024
Now, he?s joined by more formidable musical theatre stars to celebrate the world?s greatest musicals in the international concert phenomenon, Three Phantoms, featuring classic hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber?s The Phantom of the Opera and Sun...
The Hallé and Hallé Youth Orchestra
Sunday 21 January 2024
The Hall? is very grateful to the Oglesby Charitable Trust, The Zochonis Charitable Trust, Kirby Laing Foundation, The 29th May 1961 Charity, The Nugee Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust and many individual benefactors for their continued supp...
Organ Open Day (session 1)
Monday 22 January 2024
Ticket admits named customer, plus one guest. Please note only the named customer will be able to play the organ....
Organ Open Day (session 2)
Monday 22 January 2024
Ticket admits named customer, plus one guest. Please note only the named customer will be able to play the organ....
Organ Open Day (session 3)
Monday 22 January 2024
Ticket admits named customer, plus one guest. Please note only the named customer will be able to play the organ....
The Hallé - The Firebird
Wednesday 24 - Sunday 28 January 2024
Alondra de la Parra, the first Mexican to have conducted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, has also established her name in the UK through concerts with the London and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras. The concert opens with Debussy?s sen...
Trio Farben
Thursday 25 January 2024
Sponsored by Alison Wilkinson...
ABC & Southbank Sinfonia
Friday 26 January - Friday 16 February 2024
To celebrate 40 years since the release of their lauded and timeless debut album The Lexicon of Love, ABC have announced they will perform the iconic album in its entirety with the Soutbank Sinfonia, and conducted by Anne Dudley. Martin Fr...
BBC Philharmonic - Paths to a Princess
Saturday 27 January 2024
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote some of the 20th?century?s most passionate and colourful music and our Chief Conductor John Storg?rds opens the book on Shostakovich?s world of pain and parody. Even the youthful First Symphony is a tragicomedy ? n...
The Hallé - Desert Music
Thursday 1 February 2024
Colin Currie, described by The Spectator as ?The world?s finest and most daring percussionist?, and Hall? percussionists begin this exciting mini-fest of Steve Reich?s music with his celebrated Music for Pieces of Wood. Here Reich aimed to ...
The Hallé - Radio Rewrite at Hallé St. Peters
Friday 2 February 2024
Reich?s wonderfully lambent Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ was, he recalls, ?a piece that grew very spontaneously from one marimba pattern to many patterns played by other mallet instruments.? Colin Currie?s recording of Rei...
Wet Wet Wet + Go West
Sunday 4 February 2024
Two of the most iconic bands of their era, Wet Wet Wet and Go West, unite for the first time ever on a co-headline UK tour. The Best of Both Worlds tour will see the legendary bands perform their seminal songs from a combined treasure-trove...
RNCM Opera Gala
Monday 5 February 2024
Showcasing five exceptional postgraduate students from the Royal Northern College of Music, this programme from Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society will comprise arias and ensemble pieces from the operatic repertoire. The Royal Northern...
The Magic of Motown
Friday 9 February 2024
Get ready for all the hits, glittering costumes, dazzling dance routines and outstanding musicianship in this breath-taking live concert spectacular. You will be going Loco down in Acapulco as we take you back down memory lane with all the ...
BBC Philharmonic - Cathedral in Sound
Saturday 10 February 2024
First, a call to arms. Composed during the Napoleonic Wars, revolution was spreading across Europe, and you can hear it in Beethoven?s Egmont overture with its growling basses, stormy strings, and heraldic brass. Injustice, heroism, and reb...
The World According to Kaleb
Sunday 11 February 2024
Chipping Norton's finest celebrity farmer, Kaleb Cooper - who shot to fame after starring in Prime Video series, Clarkson's Farm - is embarking on his first ever tour with his show, The World According to Kaleb. Audiences can look forward t...
Hallé’ - Chamber Series at Hallé St Peter’s
Saturday 17 February - Wednesday 22 May 2024
The Halle's lunchtime Chamber Series at Halle St Peter's provides a unique opportunity to hear players and guest artists perform in more intimate surroundings. ...
BBC Philharmonic - Sound and Fury
Saturday 17 February 2024
With over 100 to his name, it?s little wonder that Haydn is known as the ?Father of the Symphony?. With names like ?Miracle?, ?Surprise? and ?Drumroll?, his campaign storms to a century with this symphony, the ?Military?. Here the symphony ...
Rick Wakeman
Sunday 18 February 2024
Legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman is well known for being a member of the rock band Yes as well as having his own successful solo career. He made chart history in 2017 when his Piano Portraits album became the first solo piano album to...
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
