THIS Valentine’s Day, join the world-renowned Philharmonia Orchestra as it performs some of the most romantic film scores and unforgettable love songs of all time at The Anvil.

On Wednesday, 14 February, Philharmonia at the Movies: Love Stories from the Silver Screen brings you the music that has defined some great moments of cinema, performed live by an orchestra of world-class musicians and conducted by celebrated film composer and conductor Carl Davis.

Themes of love and passion shine through the music from great classics like West Side Story, Gone with the Wind and Love Story alongside music from blockbusters like La La Land, and the most tragic love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.

If you would like to add some extra sparkle to this already very romantic evening, there are two extra special packages available including award-winning Hampshire sparkling wine and indulgent chocolates on arrival, and even a meet and greet with the conductor.

The Anvil Arts box office has more details.

For a pre-Valentine treat, enjoy La Traviata at The Anvil on Sunday 11 February.

La Traviata is Verdi’s outstanding interpretation of one of the most popular love stories of the 19th century, La Dame aux Camelias by Alexander Dumas; a tragic tale of searing passion and memorable music.

This operatic version of the book tells the romantic story of the passionate consumptive Violetta and her doomed love for the aristocratic Alfredo. There are many echoes of Verdi’s own life in Traviata and he threw himself into the music. The highlights include the Brindisi, the best known drinking song in opera, the duet Un Di Felice, and the haunting aria Addio Del Passato.

Producer Ellen Kent says: “The clarity of the plot is matched by a single moral idea – that enduring love can and does survive despite all efforts to corrupt it.

“In Traviata it is Alfredo’s dogged determination to stand by his fallen woman, against all odds, which brings out a sense of redemption. Brilliantly, only in death, are Violetta’s bourgeois values relinquished, and she is redeemed, ultimately, not as a fallen woman, but a risen one.”

This production will be sung in Italian with English subtitles.

A favourite with Anvil audiences, violinist Nicola Benedetti joins the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and conductor Marin Alsop on Thursday 8 February for a concert of two Beethoven masterpieces – his Fourth Symphony and Violin Concerto.

For more information or for tickets, visit anvilarts.org.uk or call the Anvil Arts box office on 01256 844244.