The Best Winter Dance and Opera at the Royal Opera House 2018/19
Enjoy skating moves and fantastical drama from the dancers, and the music of Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Janáček from the singers
The Royal Ballet: Les Patineurs Triple Bill, ROH
For dance lovers who may have overdosed on Nutcrackers over the past few years, The Royal Ballet is offering a wonderfully wintry mixed programme this season, beginning on a joyous high with Sir Frederick Ashton’s skating ballet, Les Patineurs.
Read more ...The Queen of Spades, Royal Opera House
The much-loved Eugene Onegin is uppermost in most music-lovers' minds when they think of Tchaikovsky's operas, but only just behind is the great The Queen of Spades, in which a man gambles everything on just three cards, a trick learnt from a mysterious countess.
Read more ...Asphodel Meadows/ The Two Pigeons, The Royal Ballet
When The Two Pigeons shares the Royal Opera House stage with Asphodel Meadows, audiences will be treated to creations from two of the company's biggest names – its Founder Choreographer, Frederick Ashton, and current Artist in Residence of The Royal Ballet, Liam Scarlett.
Read more ...Katya Kabanova, Royal Opera House
The operas of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček broke new ground with both their subject matter and their music, looking at the everyday reality of small-town life and ordinary, working people. Here a young woman trapped in a pointless marriage grasps her one chance.
Read more ...Don Quixote, The Royal Ballet, ROH
The ballet of Don Quixote is a much-loved 19th century classic. With a plot loosely based on an episode from Miguel de Cervantes’ novel and an exotic score by Ludwig Minkus, it has long been acclaimed as a feel-good fiesta of virtuoso dance and character comedy.
Read more ...Così Fan Tutte, Royal Opera House
In Jan Philipp Gloger's excellent production of Mozart's comic opera with its Brief Encounter look, and now with a lively new cast, two couples swap partners for a laugh, and to test fidelity. But who is in on the joke, and who is fooling whom?
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