City Halls

SCO 2025/26: From Darkness to Light (Season Opener)

SCO 2025/26: From Darkness to Light (Season Opener)
Tickets
£41.50, £35.50, £30.50, £23.50, £16.50 (includes restoration fund)
Box office telephone
Dates and times
Friday 3rd Oct 2025
7:30pm
Age
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season).

Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025

Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025

Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025


From Darkness to Light

2025/26 Season Opener


STRAUSS Metamorphosen

MACMILLAN Veni, Veni Emmanuel

BEETHOVEN Symphony No.5

Maxim Emelyanychev conductor

Colin Currie percussion


To launch our vibrant new Season, join the SCO players and our electrifying Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev on an unforgettable journey from darkness to light.

Few can be left unmoved by the pity of Richard Strauss’ deeply cathartic Metamorphosen, a profoundly poignant reflection on the destruction of World War Two.

From its famously gripping opening, however, Beethoven’s best-loved Symphony - the Fifth - forges a path from compelling conflict to the blazing radiance of triumph.

In between, superstar Scottish percussionist Colin Currie makes the first of his appearances this Season as central protagonist in Sir James MacMillan’s joyful, theatrical, visionary percussion concerto Veni, Veni Emmanuel – a dazzling celebration of new life and new hope.

Kindly supported by Donald and Louise MacDonald in memory of Euan MacDonald


Booking Information

Person with Disability: £21.50, £18.50, £16, £12.50, £9 (includes restoration fund) Accompanying Carer: £0 Student: £7.50 (includes restoration fund) Universal Credit £7.50 (includes resotration fund) Under 26: £7.50 (includes restoration fund) Child / Under 18: £0

Dispatch Charges

E-tickets - Free of charge
Fulfilment Fee - £1.95

Transaction Charges apply as follows

Online up to £1.50
Phone up to £1.75
Counter/ In Person: Free

Tickets Booking Line:
0141 353 8000.
Lines open Monday-Saturday 09:00-17:00 (excluding Bank Holidays). Please check opening hours over any Bank Holiday period.

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Restoration fund

From 1 September 2024, for any new events going on sale at our Concert Halls venues (Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, City Halls and Old Fruitmarket and Kelvingrove Bandstand), a new Restoration Fund of £1.50 per ticket may be added at checkout. To view the full Restoration Fund T&Cs please click here

 

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Assistance dogs

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Wheelchair access

Lift access to all areas. 

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Baby changing

There are baby changing facilities next to the cloakroom on level 2. One in the ladies toilet and an adjacent additional area in our first aid room.

Baby feeding

Available on request

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Parking

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