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Opera
The Royal Opera House has announced its autumn programme, jam-packed with new opera and classic ballet, and available to live and online audiences
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Opera
An operatic Italian double bill, a fresh take on a classic, and dance of intoxicating beauty are highlights from Covent Garden
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Opera
The Royal Opera House has unveiled its autumn/winter programme of ballet and opera to be screened in cinemas worldwide
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Opera
The ROH has announced two major opera and ballet events to be streamed live from its Covent Garden stage this autumn
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Opera
Ballet and opera from the Royal Opera House will be available to view in drive-in cinemas around the UK this summer
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Dance
The Royal Ballet streams choreographer Frederick Ashton’s sunniest ballet, La Fille Mal Gardée, as part of the Royal Opera House’s #OurHouseToYourHouse programe
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Dance
Culture Whisper talks to Marcelino Sambé and César Corrales, two of the Royal Ballet’s golden generation of male dancers featured in the BBC’s forthcoming documentary Men at the Barre
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Dance
Hailed as the Royal Ballet’s first classic for the 21st century, Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is the next big event in the ROH online programme
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s The Metamorphosis, an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s harrowing novella, becomes available online this week as part of the ROH’s programme of free curated broadcasts
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Dance
The Royal Ballet principal dancer Marcelino Sambé stars in Hello Marcelino, a thrilling short dance film coming to our small screens this Easter weekend
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Dance
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s full-evening ballet Mayerling, introduced by Darcey Bussell and Ore Oduba, is now available on BBC iPlayer
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Dance
Due to significant global travel disruption as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, The Royal Ballet has announced the cancellation of International Draft Works at the Linbury Theatre.
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Dance
Choreographer Cathy Marston’s dramatic first work for the ROH’s main stage, The Cellist, is paired with Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering in the Royal Ballet’s new Double Bill
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Dance
Aisha and Abhaya at the ROH’s Linbury Theatre is an ambitious multifaceted collaboration that fails to gel into any kind of coherent proposition
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Dance
A dream cast brought Onegin to life in the first night of the Royal Ballet’s revival of John Cranko’s powerful dance drama
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s Spring Triple Bill brings together works by associate artists Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, and a powerful vintage piece by George Balanchine
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Dance
Culture Whisper sits in on a rehearsal of the Royal Ballet’s Onegin and talks to Principal Dancer Ryoichi Hirano about his debut in the demanding title role
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Dance
They say Christmas is not Christmas without The Nutcracker ballet, so The Royal Ballet is bringing its landmark production to cinemas nationwide over the festive season
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Dance
The Royal Ballet serves up a sumptuous feast of pure dancing with its revival of The Sleeping Beauty, now in repertoire at the Royal Opera House
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Dance
The Royal Ballet honours its heritage with a varied triple bill that illustrates the range of its repertoire and gives both corps and soloists ample opportunities to shine
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Immersive
World Ballet Day 2019 sees 24 hours of non-stop ballet from all corners of the earth live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube
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Dance
The Royal Ballet joins the commemorations of Merce Cunningham’s centenary with the fascinating Cross Currents triple bill at the Linbury Theatre
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Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, an engrossing tale of love, greed and tragedy, is as fresh and cogent as ever, and a powerful opener to The Royal Ballet’s new season
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London offers dance for the whole family this Christmas, with new works alongside classsics
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s The Firebird triple bill blends tradition, high emotion and neo-classicism in an exciting end of season programme
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s Within the Golden Hour Triple Bill offers a mix of pure delight, a heart-rending comment on our world and a big disappointment
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The inaugural programme of the Royal Ballet’s International Draft Works, at the Linbury Theatre, threw up a heady mix of new work from across Europa and America
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The Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta gets the biopic treatment in Yuli, the uneven but often gripping tale of a rebel child forced to accept his destiny
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The Royal Ballet opened this season’s lengthy run of Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful Romeo and Juliet by showcasing the first of a wide range of casts
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The Royal Ballet gives Liam Scarlett’s first full-length work Frankenstein another outing; sadly it's as unsatisfactory as the work’s first run two years ago
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Dance
A crowd-pleaser, if ever there was one, The Royal Ballet’s sunny, funny production of Don Quixote is wowing audiences at the Royal Opera House
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The Royal Ballet marks the centenary of Margot Fonteyn’s birth with a special programme that commemorates one of the defining figures of British Ballet