The new RPO anniversary season 2026-7 will see many new milestones for the Orchestra. One important personal milestone for Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, will be his debut at London’s Cadogan Hall. Vasily comments: “This is the first season in which I will be performing with the RPO at all three of our London venues. The Royal Albert Hall has always felt like our great cathedral, the place for the large, epic symphonic statements, where the sheer scale of the music can fill every corner. The Royal Festival Hall brings its own tradition and grandeur. But what excites me especially this year is Cadogan Hall. It is more on the chamber scale, and that changes everything. The audience feels closer to the music, more included in the process, more genuinely part of what is happening on stage. And for a conductor, working in a smaller hall demands a different kind of discipline: you are attending to details of balance and ensemble that simply cannot be heard from eighty metres away in the Albert Hall. There is something very beautiful about that.”
For more details on the 2026-7 RPO season visit: https://www.rpo.co.uk/tickets-memberships/season-26-27-tickets
