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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s up-and-coming choreographer Valentino Zucchetti talks to Culture Whisper about his brand-new ballet Anemoi, which opens the company’s final programme of the season
In the Know
Dance
The Royal Ballet streams Lyssa, a new short film choreographed by Lynne Page, featuring the company's female dancers and music by Nadine Shah
Preview
Dance
With Royal Opera House preparing to re-open its doors to live audiences, The Royal Ballet has announced an exciting programme of works for the spring season
Preview
Dance
Symphonic Variations, one of Frederick Ashton's most emblematic works, is the next streamed ballet in the ROH's programme of Friday Premieres
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Opera
Good news at last: the Royal Opera House will open its doors on 17 May for a new season of live ballet and opera
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Dance
The Royal Ballet brings a measure of jollity to the ROH #OurHouseToYourHouse streaming platform with Kenneth MacMillan's ragtime work Elite Syncopations
Tried and Tested
Dance
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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Dance
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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Dance
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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Dance
The Royal Ballet streams a recording of the Ashton signature ballet, Enigma Variations, as part of the ROH Friday premieres series
Tried and Tested
Dance
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
In the Know
Opera
Ballet and opera from the Royal Opera House will be available to view in drive-in cinemas around the UK this summer
Tried and Tested
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
Tried and Tested
Dance
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
Preview
Dance
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.
Tried and Tested
Dance
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
Tried and Tested
Dance
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
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Dance
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
Tried and Tested
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
Tried and Tested
Dance
The Royal Ballet’s The Firebird triple bill blends tradition, high emotion and neo-classicism in an exciting end of season programme
Tried and Tested
Dance
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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Dance
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
Tried and Tested
Dance
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
Tried and Tested
Dance
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
Tried and Tested
Dance
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
Tried and Tested
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