
Venue Preview Night: BBC Radio 3's This Classical Life: Live!
FREE EVENT
Thursday 28th August 2025
TICKETS ON SALE AT 07 AUG 2025 10:00AM
As our reopening draws closer, we’re very excited to announce our special FREE Preview Night with the BBC Concert Orchestra, who will return to the Watford Colosseum stage for a dress rehearsal performance of BBC Radio 3's This Classical Life: Live! on Thursday 28 August.
Your first chance to preview our newly refurbished space ahead of Official Reopening Night on Friday 29 August.
Free tickets will be limited and available to reserve from Thursday 7 August. Sign up to the Watford Colosseum Newsletter below to be able to reserve tickets once released.
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This Classical Life: Live!
A night packed with music for the curious listener with presenter and saxophonist Jess Gillam, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and composer, Nico Muhly. Joining them for this special live special dress rehearsal performance OR preview of the show which will be recorded for broadcast on the following day s the BBC Concert Orchestra and their Principal Guest Conductor and Curator Edwin Outwater.
Jess Gillam is a saxophone player with a difference: a fearless musical explorer, and This Classical Life takes the music she loves - and the people who make it - and spreads that love nationwide in an evening of music and conversation. It’s a night for both classical music fans and those at the start of exploring the world of orchestral music
“Good music is good music” says Jess