The Royal Ballet

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Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan’s potent real-life tale of love, lust and death, returns to Covent Garden as part of the Royal Ballet’s autumn season

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The Royal Ballet has programmed a series of Insight events to complement its brand new production of Swan Lake

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The Royal Ballet’s much anticipated new production of Swan Lake – its first in 30 years – comes to the Royal Opera House soon

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Tickets for the Royal Ballet's 2018/19 Live Cinema Relays go on sale on 4th April. They sell out quickly, so don't delay booking!

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On the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, his daughter Nina remembers a musician who ‘lived many lives in one' and left behind a tremendous legacy

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As they prepare to debut in a principal ballet role in The Winter’s Tale, Reece Clarke and Matthew Ball talk to Culture Whisper about the complex figure of Polixenes

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The Royal Ballet revives a masterpiece of modern ballet as Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon returns to the Royal Opera House stage

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Go behind the scenes with the Royal Ballet’s Insights programme for an illuminating look at what goes into making memorable performances

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The Royal Ballet’s last mixed bill of the current season consists of three strongly contrasting works with something for everyone

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The enthralling ballerina Zenaida Yanowsky returns to the stage in Elizabeth, choreographer Will Tuckett’s reading of the life of Queen Elizabeth I

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The Royal Ballet unites all three of its associate choreographers for a triple bill celebrating the centenary year of American composer Leonard Bernstein’s birth

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The amorous adventures of the gods will be depicted through dance when The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s opulently-staged Sylvia

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Kids 

Primary schoolchildren throughout Britain are in for a treat, when a special BBC programme inspired by the Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker is streamed live to schools in November

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The epitome of Romantic ballet, Giselle, returns to the Covent Garden stage this Winter. Not to be missed!

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The Royal Ballet presents an intriguing triple bill that brings together the contrasting talents of Twyla Tharp, Arthur Pita and Hofesh Shechter

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TV 

BBC Four is broadcasting Wayne McGregor's award-winning ballet Woolf Works, recorded during a live performance at Covent Garden

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Two short homage works conclude the Royal Ballet’s celebration of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan on the 25th anniversary of his death

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It's just been announced that Sergei Polunin has pulled out of two Covent Garden dates where he was due to return to the Royal Ballet to dance with Natalia Osipova

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Many of Britain’s top dancers come together for an unforgettable evening to support and divulge the work of One Dance UK

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The Royal Ballet kicks off its autumn season with a mighty treat for adults and children alike: Christopher Wheeldon's zany treatment of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland