There are loads of venues in Sheffield that host brilliant musicians, bands, artists and DJs from all genres throughout the year.
Enjoy well-known names in some of the city's bigger venues, catch the next big thing in a pub backroom, or delve into the pioneering electronic scene... whatever you choose, you'll never be short of a great performance. Delve into our music event listings to see what’s coming…
Music events
London Concertante: A Night at the Opera by Candlelight
Step inside the beautiful Sheffield Cathedral for a uniquely spellbinding concert. The prolific London Concertante presents a sensational evening at the opera with an array of the finest opera arias and overtures.
Madama Butterfly
One of the world’s most popular operas, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly tells the heart-breaking story of the beautiful young Japanese girl who falls in love with an American naval lieutenant – with dramatic results.
Bellini's The Capulets And Montagues
Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues is a gritty re-working of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, where loyalty and love are put to the test amidst political violence, set to exquisite bel canto operatic music that brings the story’s tragedy to the fore.
La Boheme
La Bohème is one of the most romantic operas ever written. It tells the tragic tale of the doomed, consumptive Mimi and her love for a penniless writer.
Dead Cat Bounce
Dead Cat Bounce is an exhibition about an experimental opera by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera that imagines parallel realities of environmental and financial catastrophes across time and space.
