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Dance

The Best Winter Dance and Opera at the Royal Opera House 2018/19

By Claudia Pritchard on 29/10/2018

Enjoy skating moves and fantastical drama from the dancers, and Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Janáček from the singers, all with one of the best orchestras in town.

General booking for the Spring Season opens from 9am on Wednesday 31 October 2018.

The Royal Ballet, The Concert Laura Morera & Bennet Gartside (c) ROH Bill Cooper 2014

The Royal Ballet: Les Patineurs Triple Bill, ROH

For dance lovers who may have overdosed on Nutcrackers over the past few years, The Royal Ballet is offering a wonderfully wintry mixed programme this season, beginning on a joyous high with Sir Frederick Ashton’s skating ballet, Les Patineurs.

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WHEN
18 Dec 2018 – 04 Jan 2019, 19:30 mat Thur 20 Dec 14:30 Dur.: TBC
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Mystery and ambition are at the heart of Tchaikovsky's opera 'The Queen of Spades'. Photo: ROH

The Queen of Spades, Royal Opera House

The much-loved Eugene Onegin is uppermost in most music-lovers' minds when they think of Tchaikovsky's operas, but only just behind is the great The Queen of Spades, in which a man gambles everything on just three cards, a trick learnt from a mysterious countess.

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WHEN
13 Jan 2019 – 01 Feb 2019, six evening performances; one at 3PM, 13 Jan
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Asphodel Meadows (c) ROH Johan Persson

Asphodel Meadows/ The Two Pigeons, The Royal Ballet

When The Two Pigeons shares the Royal Opera House stage with Asphodel Meadows, audiences will be treated to creations from two of the company's biggest names – its Founder Choreographer, Frederick Ashton, and current Artist in Residence of The Royal Ballet, Liam Scarlett.

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WHEN
18 Jan 2019 – 13 Feb 2019, 19:30 Fri 18 Jan & Sat 2nd Feb 19:00; mats Sat 19 Jan 12:00, 2 Feb 14:00 Dur.: TBC
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
In Katya Kabanova, a young woman is crushed by a loveless marriage. Photo: ROH

Katya Kabanova, Royal Opera House

The operas of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček broke new ground with both their subject matter and their music, looking at the everyday reality of small-town life and ordinary, working people. Here a young woman trapped in a pointless marriage grasps her one chance.

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WHEN
04 Feb 2019 – 26 Feb 2019, six performances, no interval
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
The Royal Ballet, Sarah Lamb & Federico Bonelli (c) ROH Johan Persson 2013

Don Quixote, The Royal Ballet, ROH

The ballet of Don Quixote is a much-loved 19th century classic. With a plot loosely based on an episode from Miguel de Cervantes’ novel and an exotic score by Ludwig Minkus, it has long been acclaimed as a feel-good fiesta of virtuoso dance and character comedy.

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WHEN
15 Feb 2019 – 04 Apr 2019, 19:30 Sat mats 13:30, Sat eve 19:00 Dur.: 2hours 50 mins approx (TBC)
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
'Così Fan Tutte' has shades of 'Brief Encounter' at Covent Garden. Photo: Stephen Cummiskey

Così Fan Tutte, Royal Opera House

In Jan Philipp Gloger's excellent production of Mozart's comic opera with its Brief Encounter look, and now with a lively new cast, two couples swap partners for a laugh, and to test fidelity. But who is in on the joke, and who is fooling whom?

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WHEN
25 Feb 2019 – 16 Mar 2019, six performances
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
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