Arctic Monkeys are coming to Brixton Academy and Notting Hill Carnival is in town...

THE OPERA
GRIMEBORN
Arcola Theatre
Monday
The Grimeborn season — which promises to rip apart classics, show raw new work and rearrange modern music to get to the heart of opera — is the antithesis of stuffy old Glyndebourne. It opens with a gala tonight and 26 companies will perform in various guises until 5 September.

THE PROM
LSO/GERGIEV
Royal Albert Hall
Monday
Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in the UK premiere of Nagasaki, Schnittke's early oratorio, all but banned in the Soviet Union as an impassioned expression of solidarity with the victims of the second atomic bomb. Shostakovich's Symphony No 8 in C minor completes the bill.

THE GIG
ARCTIC MONKEYS
Brixton Academy
Wednesday
Sheffield's finest are back with a new album — Humbug — and a newfound enthusiasm for playing live (Alex Turner and co haven't performed in the UK for two years). Humbug was recorded in a studio owned by Josh Homme of dirty American rockers Queens of the Stone Age — a far cry from Turner's side project last year, when he recorded Sixties orchestral pop with The Last Shadow Puppets.

THE CARNIVAL
NOTTING HILL
W11
Sunday and Monday
Europe's largest street parade makes its vibrant way through the roads of W11. Floats, more than 40 static sound systems and hundreds of food stalls will attract more than a million revellers over two days.