Season : Royal Opera
Royal Opera House Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Synopsis: Showing Thursday 28th March 2013 The world premiere of a new full-length ballet created by Christopher Wheeldon for The Royal Ballet is a major highlight of the entire Season. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will bring a famous story and its equally famous characters to the ballet stage. The Victorian childhood of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and her encounters with extraordinary people, strange creatures and unusual events gives The Royal Ballet an entire new world to create, and also gives a great chance to see the whole Company...
Royal Opera House Les Troyens
Starring: Jonas Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Westbroek
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Synopsis: Showing November 2012 Les Troyens is truly epic opera. The sheer scale of its story, music, passions, staging and performers make this a Royal Opera event of the decade and a highlight of the Cultural Olympiad. Berlioz’s great work is one of the most fabulously rich of all operas, a tour de force of passion in music and an extraordinarily demanding one for its central characters. The story is from the great Classical myths, dramatizing the fall of Troy and Enée’s (Aeneas’s) doomed aff air with...
Royal Opera House The Nutcracker Live
Starring: Roberta Marquez, Steven McRae
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Synopsis: Showing Thursday 13th December 2012 The Nutcracker is classical ballet at its most approachable and visually entrancing. It is a seasonal favourite with something for everyone to enjoy, from the youngest in the family to the oldest. E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story tells of one Christmas Eve, when young Clara creeps downstairs for one of her presents, but instead finds herself at the start of a night of magical adventures as the Christmas tree magically grows and the toy soldiers come to life to fight the Mouse King! The...
Royal Opera House's Eugene Onegin, The
Starring: Simon Keenlyside, Krassimira Stoyanova
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Synopsis: Showing Wednesday 20th February 2013 The Bolshoi Opera represents the quintessence of Russian operatic heritage. Tchaikovsky’s supreme masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1879 . Now, for the first time on the stage of the Royal Opera House, the Bolshoi brings its powerful 2006 production directed by the award-winning Dmitri Tcherniakov. The Bolshoi’s incomparable singers, including the sensational Ekaterina Scherbachenko, perform Pushkin’s tragic story of the passion of the innocent, ardent Tatiana for the charismatic Onegin, in scenes of torment, intimacy,...
Royal Opera House's Swan Lake, The
Starring: Zenaida Yanowsky, Nehemiah Kish
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Synopsis: Showing Tuesday 23rd October 2012 With the instantly recognizable music of Tchaikovsky virtually a signature of classical ballet and the wonderfully dark story of good set against evil, Swan Lake is one of the most famous and loved of all works in the repertory. It is impossible to imagine the ballet world without it. The production by Anthony Dowell for The Royal Ballet is an especially appealing and popular one, using beautiful designs inspired by the intricacy and brilliance of Fabergé. The glamour of the palace...
