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Tried and Tested
Dance
It’s official! Christmas started on Monday, 3 December, with the first performance of the Royal Ballet’s magical The Nutcracker at Covent Garden relayed to almost 1,000 cinemas in 50 countries.
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Barrie Kosky is one of the most exciting directors, and Carmen one of the best works in the repertoire. Theirs is a marriage made in heaven, if you love vaudeville
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Tried and Tested
Opera
The welcome return to Covent Garden of a moving Verdi grand opera staged in the grandest style, wonderfully sung
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Preview
Opera
The Royal Opera House Cinema Festival presents films of some of its most memorable ballet and opera performances in the newly refurbished Linbury Theatre
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In the Know
Opera
Drop into Covent Garden for a daytime musical refreshment from the best of the Royal Opera House's rising singers and instrumentalists
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Best of
Enjoy skating moves and fantastical drama from the dancers, and the music of Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Janáček from the singers
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Opera
A classic and beautiful production of Verdi's moving opera returns with two starry casts
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Preview
Dance
Carlos Acosta’s vibrant production of the full-length ballet Don Quixote, created for The Royal Ballet in 2013, returns to the Royal Opera House stage
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Preview
Opera
A thrilling and terrifying card game has deadly consequences in Tchaikovsky's great opera
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Opera
Youthful casting helps make perfect sense of an opera where nothing is as it seems
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Opera
A determined girl sets out against all odds – and the gods – in a new opera for all the family
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Immersive
The Royal Opera House opens the doors to its transformed Covent Garden home, and to mark the occasion re-joins Open House London Weekend (21-23 Sep)
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In the Know
Opera
The world-class tenor on music-induced injuries, the good life in London, and unwinding at 200mph
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Opera
Opera for all the family, based on the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm, with a pop-up picturebook set
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Essential
Opera
The most popular of Wagner's four Ring cycle operas is staged at Covent Garden, and screened across the capital
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Essential
Opera
Exciting new productions and some old stalwarts make up a varied Autumn of opera and dance at the Royal Opera House. Here are the highlights in chronological order
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Essential
Best of
Curtain up on the productions that will get the music world talking. Stand by for amazing music from Bizet to Britten, with lots of tuneful Verdi too
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Best of
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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Last Chance
Classical Music
Thrilling world premiere after 180 years of a tragic opera by Donizetti
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Classical Music
The international opera star talks about singing in secret, her breakthrough as an understudy, and a world premiere, 180 years on
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Opera
An immersive opera inspired by ancient cave paintings, and set in a dystopian future
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Immersive
A leading composer of her generation, Tansy Davies ranks a healthy lifestyle with harmonic skills in her working life
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Opera
Maverick director Richard Jones salutes tradition in a spirited and moving reading of Puccini's heart-breaker
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Tried and Tested
Opera
George Benjamin's latest opera, Lessons in Love and Violence, has had its triumphant premiere at the Royal Opera House
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Tried and Tested
Opera
The scheming wife becomes a central character in her own right in Shostakovich's opera about frustration and infidelity
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In the Know
Opera
Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and more ... Top singers head for London for a rollcall of outstanding productions
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Opera
The devil wears tartan in Shakespeare's murderous Macbeth bewitched by Verdi's music
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Essential
Opera
Masterpieces by Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi bring to a close a spectacular year at Covent Garden
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Last Chance
Opera
Janáček's last opera is rarely staged. Will this new production bring it to the fore?
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In the Know
Opera
Opera's elder statesman, the baritone Willard White, on Mozart, Janáček, and 40 years at Covent Garden
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In the Know
Opera
From Ed Sheeran to Hamilton, and from Monteverdi to Mozart and Tchaikovsky, singer and composer Roderick Williams draws no boundaries in music
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Opera
Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out
