Join us for: ✨ a special preview of our BBC Proms programme ✨ and the world premiere of Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel Symphony! 📅 Wed 4 Aug, 8pm at Symphony Hall B:Music, responsible for Symphony Hall & Town Hall 🎟️ buff.ly/2VFu8XX

The Rhinemaidens get a pretty good view for the end of RhineGold 🧜🏻‍♀️ Dress rehearsal Birmingham Opera Company this evening with the sublime CBSO 💛✨

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "the production was a triumph" - The Telegraph Birmingham Opera Company's production of #RhineGold closes this evening with a sold out performance. Share your reviews with us below.

When the CBSO plays live in Symphony Hall, you’re hearing the best sound system on Broad Street! cbso.co.uk/news/season-hi…

They say you learn something new every day - well we've got Friday sorted for you! Join Richard Bratby at the Lichfield Festival for an insight into the rich and varied history of the #CBSO. lichfieldliteraturefestival.org/events/2021-09… #WhatsOn #Lichfield #WhatsOnBirmingham

Good luck to our dear friend Richard Bratby, giving his talk on the history of the CBSO at Lichfield Festival this morning!

Newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor (April 2023) Kazuki Yamada welcomes audiences to our Autumn Season opening concert tonight! 山田和樹の指揮棒 Anna Lapwood Carolyn Sampson 🇪🇺

Beresford King-Smith (1931-2021) - ⁦CBSO⁩ cbso.co.uk/news/beresford…

📅 #OnThisDay in 1912 #Sibelius was mobbed by autograph hunters at the #Birmingham Triennial Festival. He was staying with the composer Granville Bantock in Kings Norton; a keen #Shakespeare fan, he’d earlier taken a day off to visit Stratford-upon-Avon.

🎶 Become ‘maestro of the moment’ at Birmingham’s New Street Station on Fri 15 Oct! Try your hand at conducting a live 80-piece orchestra as we serenade shoppers & travellers as part of an eclectic city-wide events programme supported by HSBC UK. #HSBCUK cbso.co.uk/out-and-about

📅 #OnThisDay in 1891 #Dvorak conducted the world premiere of his Requiem in #Birmingham Town Hall. He was impressed by Birmingham, ‘this immense industrial town where they make excellent knives, scissors, springs, files – and besides these, music too!’

🎶 Comment below with the words "Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!" for your chance to HAVE A GO AT CONDUCTING THE ORCHESTRA this Friday! 🙌 More info 👉 cbso.co.uk/event/pop-up-i…

📅 #OnThisDay in 1901 Edward #Elgar conducted the first performance of his Pomp and Circumstance March No.1, in #Liverpool. Born near #Worcester, he would later urge the City of #Birmingham to found its own City Orchestra.

Lest we forget.

We're an orchestra that loves getting out and about beyond the concert hall. Here's a little snapshot of just some of the things we did last month, kindly supported by HSBC UK More soon! #CBSOoutandabout

🦊 We began our run of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen last night in Birmingham! Next stop, Germany! 📅 Sun 21 Nov: @Konzerthaus_DO, Dortmund 📅 Tue 23 Nov: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 📅 Wed 24 Nov: @TCEOPERA, Paris

Ready for #CBSOVixen - the grand finale!

🎄 We've been bringing some festive cheer to Three Snowhill today!

It's Choral Christmas week! Keep an eye on Instagram and Twitter this week for a CBSO Chorus takeover 👀 orchestral rehearsal done ahead of our first concert tomorrow at B:Music, responsible for Symphony Hall & Town Hall Symphony Hall at 7:30pm! 🎄🎶

Mirga, Mahler and the beginning of a long goodbye... Richard Bratby explores Mirga's time with the CBSO and what's in store this season: cbso.co.uk/news/mirga-mah…