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Manon Lescaut's production was updated and it worked. Highly professional production with two of the best performances I've ever witnessed in any...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kristine Opolais

The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring Marianela Nunez as Odette/Odile and Vadim...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marianela Núñez

This staging of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur features John Tomlinson, Johann Reuter, Christine Rice, and Andrew Watts in the main roles....

Genre: Music

Cast: Antonio Pappano

The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bryn Terfel

This historic performance from 1968 captures Rudolf Nureyev at the peak of his career. Nureyev's legendary performance makes this the definitive...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Rudolf Nureyev

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new production of Handel’s Theodora in an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Julia Bullock

Modest Mussorgsky's opera in prologue and four acts is performed by the Kirov Opera with performances from Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Valery Gergiev

The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised to another. This is one of The Royal...

Genre: Music

Cast: Natalia Osipova

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna Caterina Antonacci

Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Susan Bullock

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio Grigolo

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christine Rice

Live from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde –...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nadja Michael

A modern Mexican classic of magic realism provides the basis for The Royal Ballet’s new full-length work, reuniting Artistic Associate...

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Cast: Francesca Hayward

The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; the Royal Opera Chorus and the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Angela Gheorghiu

Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiveness of which is appropriate for the occasion--and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiri Te Kanawa

In a village in a country far away, the community live well and support each other. But when civil war breaks out this idyll of existence is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sting

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly...

Genre: Music

Cast: Asmik Grigorian

Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved of classical ballets, combining in a single work all the enchantment and virtuosity that...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alina Cojocaru