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The magic of Christmas is alive and well and dazzling audiences at the Royal Opera House in The Royal Ballet’s sparkling production of The Nutcracker

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As The Nutcracker takes to the stage at Covent Garden, director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare talks to Culture Whisper about staging a Covid-compliant Christmas ballet

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The Royal Ballet Live new programme, Within the Golden Hour, shows a company in glorious form determined to overcome the constraints of Covid

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The Royal Ballet streams a recording of the Ashton signature ballet, Enigma Variations, as part of the ROH Friday premieres series

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The Royal Ballet welcomed its first paying audience to the ROH with a mixed bill that offered a glimmer of light on the eve of renewed darkness

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Opera 

The Royal Opera House has announced its autumn programme, jam-packed with new opera and classic ballet, and available to live and online audiences

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Opera 

An operatic Italian double bill, a fresh take on a classic, and dance of intoxicating beauty are highlights from Covent Garden

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Opera 

The Royal Opera House has unveiled its autumn/winter programme of ballet and opera to be screened in cinemas worldwide

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Opera 

The ROH has announced two major opera and ballet events to be streamed live from its Covent Garden stage this autumn

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Opera 

Ballet and opera from the Royal Opera House will be available to view in drive-in cinemas around the UK this summer

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Opera 

The Royal Opera House’s second Live From Covent Garden event was an emotion-laden performance, bringing together a Mahler masterpiece and a short but dazzling ballet

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The Royal Ballet’s The Metamorphosis, an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s harrowing novella, becomes available online this week as part of the ROH’s programme of free curated broadcasts

CANCELLED

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Due to significant global travel disruption as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, The Royal Ballet has announced the cancellation of International Draft Works at the Linbury Theatre.

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Choreographer Cathy Marston’s dramatic first work for the ROH’s main stage, The Cellist, is paired with Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering in the Royal Ballet’s new Double Bill

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Acosta Danza’s Up Close is a mixed programme by Carlos Acosta’s superb company now installed at the ROH’s Linbury Theatre for a short residency

Postponed

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The highlight of The Royal Ballet’s spring schedule is the world premiere of Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, an ambitious work assembling key figures of dance, music and theatre

CANCELLED

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The Royal Ballet’s Spring Triple Bill brings together works by associate artists Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, and a powerful vintage piece by George Balanchine

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Dance 

Dance Umbrella’s The Future Bursts In at the Linbury Theatre is a feast of contemporary dance and a fitting tribute to Merce Cunningham on the centenary of his birth

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Immersive 

World Ballet Day 2019 sees 24 hours of non-stop ballet from all corners of the earth live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube

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Dance 

Astana Ballet, Kazakhstan’s newest ballet company, makes its UK debut at the Linbury Theatre in the Autumn with a varied programme that finds inspiration far and wide

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The Royal Ballet’s The Firebird triple bill blends tradition, high emotion and neo-classicism in an exciting end of season programme

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The Canadian dance company Cas Public celebrates difference in 9, a family show inspired by a dancer’s hearing impairment, now on at the ROH’s Linbury Theatre

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Yorke Dance Project TWENTY at the ROH Clore Studio is an anniversary programme that features MacMIllan’s Playground and a new work by the 94-year-old Robert Cohan

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The Royal Ballet’s Within the Golden Hour Triple Bill offers a mix of pure delight, a heart-rending comment on our world and a big disappointment

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The inaugural programme of the Royal Ballet’s International Draft Works, at the Linbury Theatre, threw up a heady mix of new work from across Europa and America

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The Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta gets the biopic treatment in Yuli, the uneven but often gripping tale of a rebel child forced to accept his destiny

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Dance 

National Dance Company Wales’ Awakening is a triple bill of strikingly original dance-theatre now making an all too brief visit to the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre

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Opera 

Some of the Royal Opera House’s top ballet and opera productions will be available for on-demand streaming for the first time through the digital streaming service Marquee.TV

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Opera 

Tickets for the ROH hit-packed Spring period are now on sale. Here are some of the highlights

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Dance 

The Royal Opera House’s newly refurbished Linbury Theatre opened its doors to live performance with TRIO Concert/Dance, a short programme featuring the sublime ballerina Alessandra Ferri

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Musical works never before set to dance come together with new choreographies in an enticing programme at the ROH’s Linbury Theatre, New Work, New Music

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The ROH's LInbury Theatre hosts Primeiro Bailarino (Principal Dancer), an affectionate filmed portrait of Royal Ballet Principal Thiago Soares by his fellow Brazilian director Felipe Braga