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Tosca
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 1st - 21st Jul 2024
Set in Rome, 1800, this gripping opera tells the story of Floria Tosca – a tempestuous opera singer who is used to being in the spotlight.
Lucia di Lammermoor
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 19th Apr - 18th May 2024
Caught in a family feud, and cornered by the men around her, Lucia becomes haunted by memories of the past.
Carmen
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 5th Apr - 31st May 2024
Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware.
Madama Butterfly
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 14th Mar - 18th Jul 2024
When the young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, marries American Naval Officer Pinkerton, she believes she is entering a real, binding marriage for life.
La bohème
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 24th Jan - 16th Feb 2024
Puccini’s opera of passion, friendship and heartbreak is brought to life in Richard Jones’ vivid and evocative production.
Manon
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 17th Jan - 8th Mar 2024
Torn between her desire for a life of splendour and riches, and her devotion to her true love Des Grieux, Manon pays the ultimate price.
Hansel and Gretel - Royal Opera House
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 16th Dec 2023 - 7th Jan 2024
A great family opera sung in English – Antony McDonald’s exquisite production of Humperdinck’s fairytale masterpiece returns in time for Christmas.
Rigoletto
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 9th - 28th Nov 2023
Rigoletto is the loyal jester to the Duke of Mantua – a powerful, dangerous man who is secretly seducing Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda, along with several countesses.
Island Movements
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 27th Oct 2023
Darren Panton, alongside Patrick Williams of the Alvin Ailey and Paris Opera companies, Island Movements is a short ballet that tells the story of Windrush and explores the impact …
Anemoi/The Cellist
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 1st - 2nd Nov 2023
This award-winning mixed programme features two stunning ballets.
L'elisir d'amore
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 28th Sep - 5th Oct 2023
Expect sun, fun and vocal acrobatics in Laurent Pelly’s much-loved staging of Donizetti’s intoxicating and witty comedy.
La forza del destino
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 27th Sep - 9th Oct 2023
Torn apart by a tragic accident on the night of their elopement, Leonora and Don Alvaro seek refuge in spirituality and solitude.
Andrea Chenier
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 20th May - 9th Jun 2019
The poet Andrea Chénier attends a party at the Countess di Coigny's mansion.
Within the Golden Hour, New Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Flight Pattern
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 8th - 21st May 2019
Seven couples dance in shifting groups.
Billy Budd
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 23rd Apr - 10th May 2019
Three new recruits join the warship HMS Indomitable, commanded by the scholarly Captain Vere.
La forza del destino
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 17th - 22nd Apr 2019
The Marquis of Calatrava forbids his daughter Leonora to marry the South American nobleman Don Alvaro.
Faust
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 11th Apr - 6th May 2019
Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him.
Romeo And Juliet - The Royal Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 26th Mar - 11th Jun 2019
The story is set against a wonderful evocation of 16th-century Verona, and includes a bustling marketplace that erupts into a violent sword fight, and a lavish ball held in an eleg…
Frankenstein
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 5th - 23rd Mar 2019
Victor Frankenstein is about to leave home for university, away from his family and Elizabeth, the woman he loves.
Cosi Fan Tutte
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 25th Feb 2019 - 10th Jul 2024
Thomas Allen and five young operatic talents star in Mozart's theatrical and tuneful comedy about love and fidelity.
The Royal Ballet School
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 12th - 16th Feb 2019
The dancers of the future bring their talent to the Royal Opera House main stage for three special performances.
Asphodel Meadows/The Two Pigeons
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 5th - 13th Feb 2019
Ballets by Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and Royal Ballet Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett share the stage in this mixed programme with music by Messager and Poulenc.
Katya Kabanova
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 6th - 26th Feb 2019
Rising stars Amanda Majeski and Pavel Cernoch make Royal Opera debuts in Richard Jones's production of the second work in The Royal Opera's Janácek cycle.
Hansel and Gretel
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 21st - 29th Dec 2018
Hansel and Gretel's parents have fallen on hard times.
The Unknown Soldier - Mixed Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 20th - 29th Nov 2018
The classical and the contemporary meet in this programme of three complementary works.
Simon Boccanegra
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 15th Nov - 10th Dec 2018
The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter.
La Bayadere
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 3rd - 17th Nov 2018
Nikiya, a temple dancer, is in love with the warrior Solor.
Soloman
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 11th Oct 2018
Handel’s glorious oratorio rejoices in the wisdom of Solomon, one of Israel’s greatest kings.
Falstaff
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 7th - 21st Jul 2018
Old, large and lecherous, Sir John Falstaff can’t resist the ladies.
Don Giovanni
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 29th Jun - 17th Jul 2018
The impulsive, charismatic Don Giovanni is a serial seducer, accompanied by his long-suffering servant Leporello.
Lessons in Love and Violence
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 10th - 26th May 2018
A king is forced to choose between love and political expediency.
Antonio Pappano Concert
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 23rd Apr 2018
Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts the internationally renowned Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in a concert of orchestral works on the main stage.
Obsidian Tear Mixed
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 14th Apr - 11th May 2018
The imaginative world of the ballet is both archaic and futuristic in its exploration of the tribal behaviour of its all-male group.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 12th - 27th Apr 2018
Downtrodden housewife Katerina is seduced by Sergey.
Macbeth - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 2nd - 10th Apr 2018
The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth an…
Manon
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 29th Mar - 16th May 2018
Manon’s brother Lescaut is offering her to the highest bidder when she meets Des Grieux and falls in love.
New Wayne McGregory / The Age of Anxiety / New Christopher Wheeldon
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 15th Mar - 9th Apr 2018
The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein programme from the Company’s three associate choreographers, Wayne McGregor…
From The House Of The Dead
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 7th - 24th Mar 2018
From the House of the Dead is Janáček’s final work and arguably his most powerful.
The Winter's Tale - Royal Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 13th Feb - 21st Mar 2018
King Leontes, possessed by a mad jealousy, believes his pregnant wife Hermione to be having an affair with his childhood friend King Polixenes.
Carmen - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 6th Feb 2018 - 20th Jul 2019
Barrie Kosky directs Bizet’s much-loved opera, with Jakub Hrůša and Christopher Willis conducting two casts led by Anna Goryachova and Gaëlle Arquez in the title…
Giselle - Royal Ballet
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 19th Jan - 9th Mar 2018
The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised to another.
Tosca - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 15th Jan 2018 - 20th Jun 2019
Three casts, led by Adrianne Pieczonka, Angela Gheorghiu and Martina Serafin and conducted by Dan Ettinger and Plácido Domingo, star in The Royal Opera’s production of…
Salome
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 8th - 30th Jan 2018
Richard Strauss brought an extravagant intensity to his adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé.
Rigoletto - Royal Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 14th Dec 2017 - 16th Jan 2018
Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter.
Cavalleria/Pagliacci
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 6th Dec 2017 - 13th Jan 2018
Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (The Players) are today Italian opera’s most famous double act, but t…
The Nutcracker
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 5th Dec 2017 - 15th Jan 2019
A young girl’s enchanted present leads her on a wonderful Christmas adventure in this beautiful classical ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score.
Sylvia
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 23rd Nov - 16th Dec 2017
Frederick Ashton’s delightful full-length classical ballet is a charming feast for the senses, set to Delibes’ marvellous score.
Illustrated 'Farewell'/The Wind/Untouchable
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 6th - 17th Nov 2017
Twyla Tharp and Arthur Pita create new works for The Royal Ballet, in a programme that includes the first revival of Hofesh Shechter’s 2015 work for the Company.
Lucia Di Lammermoor
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 30th Oct - 27th Nov 2017
Lucia’s brother Enrico is horrified to learn she has fallen in love with his sworn enemy Edgardo.
Les Vepres Siciliennes
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 12th Oct - 4th Nov 2017
Hélène longs for vengeance on Montfort, who murdered her brother.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 27th Sep - 23rd Oct 2017
Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography.
Die Zauberflote
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 26th Sep - 14th Oct 2017
Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the enchanter Sarastro.
La Boheme
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 25th Sep 2017 - 20th Jul 2018
When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, meets Mimì, a seamstress, they fall instantly in love.
La Bayadere - Mariinsky Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 10th - 12th Aug 2017
The Mariinsky Ballet dance Petipa’s great classical ballet of love, betrayal and ultimate redemption.
Contrasts - Mariinsky Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 8th - 9th Aug 2017
The Mariinsky Ballet dances a mixed programme of Alonso’s Carmen Suite, McGregor’s Infra and Petipa’s Paquita Grand pas.
Anna Karenina - Mariinsky Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 3rd - 4th Aug 2017
The Mariinsky Ballet presents the highly anticipated revival of Alexei Ratmansky’s acclaimed Tolstoy adaptation.
Swan Lake: The Royal Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 27th Jul 2017 - 21st Jun 2018
Konstantin Sergeyev’s entrancing production of Swan Lake, based on Petipa and Ivanov’s timeless masterpiece, creates a lyrical, mysterious world where Prince Siegf…
Don Quixote - Mariinsky Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 24th Jul 2017 - 4th Apr 2019
The Mariinsky Ballet opens its London season with the company’s sparkling production of Petipa and Gorsky’s exuberant classic, Don Quixote.
The Merchant of Venice
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 19th - 20th Jul 2017
André Tchaikowsky’s Shakespeare-inspired opera is an important rediscovery in 20th-century opera and receives its London premiere in Welsh National Opera’s produ…
Otello
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 8th - 15th Jul 2017
Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera, conducts a new production by Keith Warner of Verdi’s great setting of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Turandot
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 5th - 16th Jul 2017
Christine Goerke and Lise Lindstrom take the title role in Andrei Serban’s striking staging of Puccini’s final opera.
Mitridate, re di Ponto
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 26th Jun - 7th Jul 2017
Farnace and Sifare, sons of the mighty warrior Mitridate, both love their father’s fiancée Aspasia.
The Dream Mixed
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 2nd - 10th Jun 2017
A programme of three great works by Frederick Ashton closes The Royal Ballet’s Season.
L'elisir d'amore
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 27th May - 22nd Jun 2017
Village boy Nemorino is besotted with the wealthy Adina.
The Vertiginous Thrill Mixed
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 18th - 31st May 2017
A stunning contemporary programme from The Royal Ballet presents four contrasting choreographic personalities.
Don Carlo
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 12th - 29th May 2017
Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty between the two kingdoms.
Mayerling
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 28th Apr 2017 - 30th Oct 2018
Rudolf, the emotionally unstable Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, is forced to marry Princess Stephanie against his will.
The Exterminating Angel
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 24th Apr - 8th May 2017
Guests are invited to an exclusive dinner after a night at the opera.
Jewels
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 1st - 21st Apr 2017
Jewels uses three gem stones as starting points to explore an array of musical and dance styles, each intimately connected to Balanchine’s own life and career.
Mixed Ballet: The Human Seasons, After the Rain and New Crystal Pite
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 16th - 24th Mar 2017
The Royal Ballet celebrates contemporary ballet with a programme that includes a world premiere from Crystal Pite and works by Christopher Wheeldon and David Dawson.
Adriana Lecouvreur
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 10th Feb - 2nd Mar 2017
Angela Gheorghiu and Hrachuhi Bassenz star in the first revival of David McVicar’s sumptuous production of Cilea’s tragic opera.
Woolf Works
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 21st Jan - 14th Feb 2017
The first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music by Max Richter, inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf and starring Alessandra Ferri and …
La Traviata
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 16th Jan - 4th Jul 2017
Joyce El-Khoury, Ekaterina Bakanova and Corinne Winters lead three excellent casts in Richard Eyre’s much-loved production of Verdi’s most famous opera.
Written on Skin
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 13th - 27th Jan 2017
A powerful Protector commissions a young artist to create an illuminated book to celebrate his power.
The Nutcracker - Royal Opera House
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Albert Hall / Royal Opera House
- 4th Jan 2017 - 31st Dec 2019
The Nutcracker is classical ballet at its most approachable and visually entrancing – Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without it! A young girl’s enchanted present…
Der Rosenkavalier
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 22nd Dec 2016 - 24th Jan 2017
Andris Nelsons conducts two starry casts including Renée Fleming, Alice Coote and Rachel Willis-Sørensen in Robert Carsen’s new production of Richard Strauss&rs…
Il Trovatore
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 13th Dec 2016 - 9th Feb 2017
The first revival of David Bösch’s new production for The Royal Opera, with two casts including Maria Agresta, Lianna Haroutounian, Anita Rachvelishvili and Dmitri Hvoro…
Manon Lescaut
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Royal Opera House
- 12th Dec 2016
Antonio Pappano conducts Sondra Radvanovsky and Aleksandrs Antonenko in the first revival of Jonathan Kent’s thought-provoking production of Puccini’s first operatic …
The Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms / Royal Opera House
- 27th Aug 2016 - 14th Mar 2017
Cinema screening of live performance.
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