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| Address | Bow Street,
Covent Garden London WC2E 9DD United Kingdom |
| Contains | Royal Opera House, Clore Studio Upstairs Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House: The Crush Room |
| Google maps | 51° 30' 48.136" N 0° 7' 20.640" W |
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LondonBRB2: Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection
Rachmaninov, Bizet, Løvenskiold, Dove, Saint-Saëns
Sir Frederick Ashton; Carlos Acosta; August Bournonville; Marius Petipa; Mikhail Fokine; BRB2; Royal Ballet Sinfonia
LondonCinderellaNew production
Prokofiev: Cinderella
Sir Frederick Ashton; The Royal Ballet; Koen Kessels; Jonathan Lo; Tom Pye; Alexandra Byrne
LondonArminioNew production
Handel: Arminio
André Callegaro; Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol; The Royal Opera; Noemi Daboczi; DM Wood; Early Opera Company Orchestra
LondonInnocenceNew production
Saariaho: Innocence
Susanna Mälkki; Simon Stone; The Royal Opera; Chloe Lamford; Mel Page; James Farncombe; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
LondonAidaNew production
Verdi: Aida
Sir Mark Elder; Robert Carsen; The Royal Opera; Miriam Buether; Annemarie Woods; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
LondonThe Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marius Petipa; The Royal Ballet; Oliver Messel; Mark Jonathan; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
LondonThe Dark Crystal: Odyssey
Cadbury: The Dark Crystal: Odyssey
Wayne McGregor; Company Wayne McGregor
LondonWozzeckNew production
Berg: Wozzeck
Deborah Warner; The Royal Opera; Hyemi Shin; Nicky Gillibrand; Adam Silverman; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Handel’s Arminio: a Rhineland rebel firing Baroque blanks
The Royal Opera presents another Handel rarity for its Jette Parker Artists in the Linbury Theatre, the but action thriller approach is ill-suited to the ancient tale.
Urgent and intense: Innocence opens at the Royal Opera House
Kaija Saariaho's opera – staged by Simon Stone and the hit of the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival – makes its UK debut.
Cinders returns to the ball in resplendent new clothing
With sumptuous new set designs and costumes, The Royal Ballet are in splendid form in Sir Frederick Ashton's Cinderella.
Andrei Serban's Turandot returns once more to the Royal Opera House
Riddle me this: what is the result of combining Andrei Serban's beloved staging of Turandot with Antonio Pappano's first stage outing of the piece? Answer: a thrilling evening.
Enchanting Alessandra Ferri returns in Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works
Every decade or so, The Royal Ballet creates a new work that will endure in its signature collection, and there's little doubt that Woolf Works deserves its place among that elite.
Semyon Bychkov leads a musically superior Rusalka at Covent Garden
Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami give Rusalka an ecological reading, but it's the musical side of things that really takes flight in The Royal Opera's new production.
The Linbury: Pam Tanowitz is becoming a fixture of the UK dance scene
While Secret Things was notable for its outlandish costumes, Everyone Keeps Me remains a rare gem of modern dance to be cherished
Unfaltering opera buffa: The Barber of Seville at the ROH
Two outstanding performances by young singers light up a splendidly crafted revival of Caurier and Leiser's colourful production.