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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, the rooms above pubs where things start, and the booth on Leicester Square that sells off what the West End has not. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
Blomfield's red-brick conservatoire opposite the Albert Hall, with a 468-seat concert hall, an opera house and a museum of 800 instruments.
ClassicalOperaFree to hearWorth it for the building
Arthur Blomfield built it in Flemish Mannerist style - red brick dressed with buff stone - between 1892 and 1894, on Prince Consort Road, facing the back of the Albert Hall. There are five performance rooms inside. The Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall is barrel-vaulted, dates from 1901, seats 468 and was restored in 2008. The Britten Theatre, opened by the Queen in 1986, seats 400 and is a working opera house. A forty-million-pound rebuild finished in 2021 added a 140-seat performance hall and a studio, and there is a 150-seat recital room and three Parry Rooms with organs in them.
Most of what happens in those rooms is open to the public and a great deal of it is free, which is the point worth knowing: the players are at the end of a conservatoire training rather than the start of one, and a free lunchtime recital here is not a lesser version of a paid concert.
The museum is separate and worth its own hour: more than 14,000 items, over 800 instruments, manuscripts in the composers' hands, and 600,000 concert programmes going back to 1730.
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