Back at the Octagon again, The Charlatans are on the road celebrating new album We Are Love.

Claire Booth kicks off the 2026 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival in style. Guest Curator Claire Booth opens with a one-woman opera retelling the story of ‘the last real Viking’, Harald Hardrada, by Judith Weir.

A children's opera telling the folk tale of a young chicken who believes the sky is falling when an acorn lands on its head. Composed by Julian Phillips and performed live for the very first time, with a choir of Sheffield primary children.

For this ‘relaxed’ concert of storytelling music, doors will be left open, lights raised, a break-out space provided, and there will be less emphasis on the audience being quiet during the performance.