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Opera: Tosca at Royal Opera House from 07 June to 17 July 2011
Powerful music, a gripping story and a tragic end: Puccini’s ever-popular Tosca returns to The Royal Opera with two fabulous casts. Among the star singers in this revival are Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Martina Serafin, Marcello Giordano and Juha Uusitalo. The Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House are [...]
Continue reading...Cinderella at Royal Opera House from 7 April 2011 to 6 May 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
The combination of story, music and dance in The Royal Ballet’s Cinderella is a great way for all ages to discover the joy of great ballet. The famous fairytale elements are there: the spiteful Step-sisters, the Fairy Godmother, the ball, the striking clock. And at the centre is Cinderella whose rags-to-riches journey finally unites her [...]
Continue reading...Latest and Current Performances and events at the Royal Opera House
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building is often referred to as simply “Covent Garden”, after a previous use of the site of the opera house’s original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The [...]
Continue reading...Adriana Lecouvreur at Royal Opera House!
Monday, November 22, 2010
A stellar cast under the baton of Mark Elder, a new production by David McVicar, and an opera not seen at the Royal Opera House since 1906: Adriana Lecouvreur is one of the major highlights of the Royal Opera Season. Anyone who loves Puccini will find this opera by Francesco Cilea, a contemporary and fellow [...]
Continue reading...Cinderella at Royal Opera House from 20 Nov 2010 to 29 Dec 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The combination of story, music and dance in The Royal Ballet’s Cinderella is hard to beat. All the elements of the story are there: the spiteful Step-sisters, the fairy godmother, the ball, the striking clock. And at the centre is Cinderella whose rags-to-riches journey unites her with her handsome prince. Frederick Ashton created a ballet [...]
Continue reading...Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia at Royal Opera House
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Only restored in its entirety in 2004, Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia at once showed itself a fine combination of all the ingredients of the best of classical ballet. The story, from Greek myth, has Sylvia at the centre of dramatic events that have a statue come to life, Sylvia’s abduction by the evil hunter Orion, and [...]
Continue reading...Opera: Romeo Et Juliette at Royal Opera House
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Shakespeare’s tragedy of doomed young love receives a wonderful interpretation in Gounod’s opera, combining all of the drama of the well-known story and the emotional and stirring music typical of the composer of Faust. Not presented by The Royal Opera for a decade, Nicolas Joël’s production is revived with a fantastic cast conducted by French [...]
Continue reading...John Cranko’s Onegin at Royal Opera House
Saturday, August 7, 2010
The full company of The Royal Ballet are on stage for the drama and passion of John Cranko’s Onegin. At the heart of the story – taken from Pushkin’s great novel Yyvgeny Onegin – are Tatiana and Onegin himself. While she blooms from provincial young girl to sophisticated St Petersburg aristocrat, he descends from high-handed [...]
Continue reading...Mixed Programme-La Valse at Royal Opera House
Saturday, August 7, 2010
A mixed programme of sheer variety and breadth draws the wonderful potential of ballet into one great event, under the baton of Barry Wordsworth, Music Director of The Royal Ballet. Classic dance in Ashton’s evocative response to Ravel’s haunting La Valse, brings waves of dancers into an elegant ballroom setting. This gives way to the [...]
Continue reading...Hansel und Gretel at The Royal Opera House from 23 December 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
What better Christmas treat for everyone than one of the most famous of all fairytales and one of the most richly tuneful of all operas. The Royal Opera brings back to the stage the beautiful and delightful production by the favourite directing team of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier. Charles Mackerras and Rory Macdonald conduct [...]
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