Kensington Symphony Orchestra returns to the Barbican to mark its 70th anniversary with a performance of Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt (1917-20), based on a psychological drama exploring love, lust and grief.

The orchestra gave the UK première of the work in January 1996, when its performance — celebrating KSO’s 40th anniversary — was hailed as ‘a feast of brilliant playing’ (The Evening Standard). Now, Russell Keable again takes the baton to conduct Korngold’s sweepingly romantic score, which was one of the biggest hits of the 1920s before being banned by the Nazi regime.