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Dance
Dance returns to the stage on 2021
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Dance
Matthew Bourne's multi-award-winning The Car Man gets a make over as part of the Royal Albert Hall's 150th anniversary celebrations
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Classical Music
All the Christmas favourites are back, as the Kensington venue unveils a festive season, including carols and Messiah
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Dance
English National Ballet's Wednesday Watch Parties come to an end with two charming works, Bournonville's La Sylphide and Wheeldon's Cinderella-in-the-round
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Dance
A new date has been announced for Sergei Polunin and Alina Cojocaru's Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Albert Hall, which was postponed because of the Covid-19 lockdown
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Dance
Birmingham Royal Ballet brings its much-loved production of The Nutcracker to the Royal Albert Hall for a short run this winter
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Classical Music
From festive sing-alongs to Hollywood scores, there’s plenty you won’t want to miss at the Royal Albert Hall this winter
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Classical Music
Isata Kanneh-Mason, Sir Bryn Terfel and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra headline in the three-week festival
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Classical Music
Enjoy at home this year's top international artists, the secret lives of musicians and Queen Victoria's piano
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Dance
Tickets are on sale for English National Ballet’s glorious Swan Lake in-the-round, which makes a welcome return to the Royal Albert Hall in 2020
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Cinema
For the first time since the 1982 release, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner will be screened in sync with a performance of Vangelis' electrifying score
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Dance
English National Ballet’s Cinderella-in-the-round adapts the much loved rags to riches fairy tale to the vast space of the Royal Albert Hall with mixed results
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Classical Music
'Come seek us where our voices sound': experience the fourth Harry Potter film with a live orchestra in the historic Royal Albert Hall
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Classical Music
A festival of classical music with top names, rising stars and musical fun for all the family
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Opera
From festive sing-alongs to Hollywood scores, there’s plenty you won’t want to miss at the Royal Albert Hall this winter
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Dance
With A Celebration Carlos Acosta – the incomparable ballet superstar – marks 30 years in dance supported by his own young Cuban company, Acosta Danza, at the Royal Albert Hall
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Classical Music
Enjoy classical music in informal surroundings, and with coffee and pastries too
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After a somnolent summer, the autumn sees London dance come alive with a myriad of unmissable events. Here are some of the highlights
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Dance
Following a hugely successful run last Christmas, Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to the Royal Albert Hall with its magical production of The Nutcracker
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Opera
Symphonies at the heart of classical music and inventive new sounds herald the first whole week of Proms
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Classical Music
Screening of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind at the Royal Albert Hall before a live orchestra
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Classical Music
Star Trek at the Royal Albert Hall is accompanied live by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
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Classical Music
Star Trek Beyond screened at the Royal Albert Hall before live music by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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The screen has never sounded so good: soak up the biggest blockbusters, from Star Trek to Harry Potter, alongside a live orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall
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Best of
The world's finest orchestras, conductors, singers and instrumental soloists head for London for the biggest music festival on the planet
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Dance
Birmingham Royal Ballet transform the Royal Albert Hall’s rather unforgiving stage into a magical set for its production of the Christmas favourite, The Nutcracker
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Classical Music
Big band favourite Guy Barker returns with swinging, soulful celebration of big band music with a Christmas twist at the Royal Albert Hall
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Classical Music
Ripping through pop classics and dynamic TV and film scores, the smooth, soothing cello will never sound antiquated again
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Unity, the centenary of the Russian Revolution, and religious works come with ways to get up close and personal to the music
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Kids
An interactive vibrant show for little ones this February half term at the Royal Albert Hall
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Classical Music
From a free exhibition to a gala concert with Nigel Kennedy, this feast of classical music has something for everyone
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Classical Music
Four superb soloists join together with Goldsmiths Choral Union, the English Concert Chorus and the Highgate Choral Society for this performance of the yuletide perennial