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Tried and Tested
Opera
A superbly sung new production of Verdi's great drama has a picturebook quality and a big star in Jamie Barton
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Tried and Tested
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Wayne McGregor’s UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, his take on the worrying state of our planet, fills the Linbury Theatre with powerful images of despair and redemption
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Australian Ballet returns to London with Balanchine's glittering Jewels and a one-off 60th anniversary gala
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Dance
Young dancers from the UK and abroad join forces for the Next Generation Festival at the Linbury Theatre this summer
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The country house opera season begins, London goes baroque, and there's a last chance to catch English National Opera's big hit, Blue
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Opera
A. new Ring Cycle begins in Sir Antonio Pappano's final year as music director, and favourite operas return alongside other new productions
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Opera
In the Linbury Theatre, rising Jette Parker Artists bring Handel into the modern world
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A tense drama unfolds when a bereaved mother finds herself amid the family of the boy who killed her daughter, in Kaija Saariaho's hard-hitting opera
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Dance
The great Carlos Acosta returns to the Royal Opera House with Carlos at 50, a programme that celebrates another landmark in his illustrious life and career
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Mozart, Verdi and Massenet bring to a close the spectacular 22/23 season in four must-see productions. Stand by to book from 9am on Thurs 13 April
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Tried and Tested
Dance
The Royal Ballet’s new production of Cinderella, one of the Ashton jewels in its repertoire, is sumptuous, enchanting and thoroughly entertaining
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Opera
Operas set in France, Italy, Germany, China and Ancient Egypt, three striking fifth symphonies and, to raise a smile, Edward Lear nonsense verse set to music
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Tried and Tested
Opera
After a ravishing start, this often handsome production of Dvorak's opera loses momentum and falls short of its laudable ambitions
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Superstar Lise Davidsen sings the forsaken sweetheart of a talented singer who swops true love for sex, in Wagner's opera
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Drama and comedy at the opera, music for children, and Paris in song
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Tried and Tested
Opera
The ruined life of a hidden Kennedy is vividly and movingly re-created in a powerful and imaginative opera
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Dance
Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, adapted from Laura Esquivel’s best-selling Mexican family saga for The Royal Ballet, will be shown in cinemas nationwide
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The big sounds of Rachmaninov herald an anniversary year packed with the Russian-born composer's music. Plus, the forgotten Kennedy, and a Wagner fantasy
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Freddie De Tommaso and Natalya Romaniw bring youth and promise to a fine production of Puccini's opera
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Tried and Tested
Dance
The Royal Ballet’s glorious production of the Christmas ballet par excellence, The Nutcracker, is now firmly installed on the main stage at Covent Garden
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Essential
Opera
Family encounters with the orchestra, contemporary music and seasonal favourites, including Mozart's musical pantomime
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A new production in the Linbury Theatre of Benjamin Britten's opera is unsparing in its depiction of toxic masculinity
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Opera
A glamorous and witty new production of Handel's opera is a great all-round theatrical experience
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Dance
Dance at its most varied this month
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Dance
Tickets are now on general sale for The Royal Ballet's Winter Season, featuring two 'big beasts' and a few smaller but no less enticing programmes
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An opera based on a timeless movie, a chance for audiences to take charge, and musical answers to winter
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Dance
World Ballet Day returns to our screens, bringing a wealth of behind-the-scenes live footage from a record number of international companies
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Tried and Tested
Dance
Light of Passage, choreographer Crystal Pite’s reworking of her award-winning piece on the refugee crisis for The Royal Ballet, has had its world premiere at the ROH
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Tried and Tested
Dance
The Royal Ballet opened its new season with a star-studded near-perfect performance of Kenneth MacMillan’s emotionally devastating Mayerling
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Dance
A promising opening of the 2022-23 season
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Robert Carsen's prescient new production of Verdi's opera finds parallels in today's headlines
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Marking the arrival of autumn in music, two 50th anniversary concerts, and an exciting conducting debut
