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An opera for babies, Russian music for families, and concert hall favourites by Gershwin and Shostakovich, plus all things piano
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The ideal opening to the new season, The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote brings sunshine, fun and simply glorious dancing to Covent Garden
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Donizetti's opera about a love potion fizzes right out of the bottle at Covent Garden
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When a mother loses her child, she sets out to find one truly happy person in her changed world...
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It's messy play time at Covent Garden in a madcap revival of Verdi's action-packed opera
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The despoliation of the Earth and the humiliation of women are underlying themes in a new production launching Covent Garden 2023/24
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After a 35-year absence from London’s premier dance house, The Australian Ballet took to the stage at Covent Garden with Balanchine’s glamorous, glittering Jewels
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Tickets are now on general sale for The Royal Ballet's Autumn season
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Booking opens on Wed 2 Aug for operas by Wagner, Verdi, Donizetti, Handel and more
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Proving he’s still got it at 50 years old, the Cuban superstar Carlos Acosta returns to the ROH with a programme that celebrates a long, illustrious career in dance
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Superb singing breathes new life into a classic production of a Verdi grand opera
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Young dancers from the UK and abroad join forces for the Next Generation Festival at the Linbury Theatre this summer
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Outstanding singing from the heroine of Massenet's evening raises the roof. Aigul Akhmetshina is Covent Garden's big star
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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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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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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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In the Linbury Theatre, rising Jette Parker Artists bring Handel into the modern world
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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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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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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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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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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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The ruined life of a hidden Kennedy is vividly and movingly re-created in a powerful and imaginative opera
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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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Freddie De Tommaso and Natalya Romaniw bring youth and promise to a fine production of Puccini's opera
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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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A new production in the Linbury Theatre of Benjamin Britten's opera is unsparing in its depiction of toxic masculinity
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A glamorous and witty new production of Handel's opera is a great all-round theatrical experience
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Dance at its most varied this month
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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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World Ballet Day returns to our screens, bringing a wealth of behind-the-scenes live footage from a record number of international companies