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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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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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Dance
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opera
Freddie De Tommaso and Natalya Romaniw bring youth and promise to a fine production of Puccini's opera
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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
Essential
Opera
Family encounters with the orchestra, contemporary music and seasonal favourites, including Mozart's musical pantomime
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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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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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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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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