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Listen: Monteverdi’s Orfeo on BBC iPlayer
Christopher Lowrey, Gyula Orendt, Mary Bevan and Anthony Gregory in Orfeo © ROH. Photo by Stephen Cummiskey, 2015. [This performance is no longer available on BBC iPlayer, but you can watch the...
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Watch: Members of The Royal Opera on Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Anne Sofie Von Otter,Trinity Moses and Peter Hoare as Fatty in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny © ROH.Clive Barda 2015 John Fulljames’ Royal Opera production of Rise and Fall of the City of...
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Dance Woking and Revelation St. Mary's join ROH Links
A performance at Dance Woking's Innovate © Dance Woking, 2013 Two new organizations have joined ROH Links, a skills sharing and capacity building programme offered by the Royal Opera House to smaller...
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‘His ballets are classical and always very beautiful. He would know the music absolutely inside out', says Guest Principal Ballet Master Christopher Carr of working with The Royal Ballet’s Founder...
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Semyon Bychkov, Richard Jones and Aleksandra Kurzak among the winners at the...
Aleksandra Kurzak as Fiorilla and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo as Selim in Il turco in Italia © ROH/Clive Barda, 2010 A number of Royal Opera artists have won prizes at the Opera Awards 2015. The awards, now...
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Opera Europa live streaming platform launches with a relay of La traviata...
Ermonela Jaho and Francesco Demuro in David McVicar's Teatro Real production of La traviata © Javier del Real, 2015 Teatro Real, Madrid will be the first theatre to broadcast a production via Opera...
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Casting Announced for The Royal Ballet’s Summer 2015 US Tour
Tristan Dyer in Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety ©ROH.Bill Cooper 2014 Casting for the Royal Ballet’s summer 2015 tour to the USA has now been announced. The first stop will be The Kennedy Center...
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Ready, Set, Go: Principal Violist Andriy Viytovych leads the Orchestra of the...
Violist Andriy Viytovych On Monday 25 May, Andriy Viytovych, Principal Violist of The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, will treat audiences to a charity recital of three concertos from William...
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Claus Guth’s production of Die Frau ohne Schatten wins Best Opera at The...
Emily Magee as the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten © ROH / Clive Barda 2014 Claus Guth’s production of Die Frau ohne Schatten has won Best Opera at The South Bank Sky Arts Awards. The new production...
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Christopher Wheeldon wins over Broadway at the 2015 Tony Awards
Christopher Wheeldon in rehearsals for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland © ROH/Johan Persson, 2011 Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has won his first Tony Award at the 69th annual ceremony in New...
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The Bachtrack Opera Awards 2015 open for voting
Aleksandra Kurzak as Fiorilla © ROH. Tristram Kenton, 2015 Voting is now underway for the Bachtrack Opera Awards 2015, run by the online guide to classical music, opera and dance. An audience poll...
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Watch: John Copley on La bohème - ‘It was the first proper opera I’d seen and...
La bohème © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper John Copley is joined by BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny in the ROH’s Clore Studio to discuss the first time he heard Puccini’s heart-breaking...
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BBC celebrates the classical voice with three weeks of special programming
Antonio Pappano© ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda, 2014 The BBC has launched a three-week season of programming celebrating the classical voice and the skill required to master and develop the human...
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Young Artist profile: Lauren Fagan - ‘Being an opera singer isn’t a normal...
Lauren Fagan and Yuriy Yurchuk in La Scala di Seta © ROH. Mark Douet, 2014 ‘I didn’t grow up listening to opera but when I was little I loved to sing along with my mum’s CDs. I think I was able to hit...
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New book to celebrate Carlos Acosta's 17 years with The Royal Ballet
Carlos Acosta Swan Lake curtain call ©Johan Persson A new book looking back on Carlos Acosta’s 17-year-career dancing with The Royal Ballet will be released in November 2015. The book, published by...
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Sky Arts set to broadcast seven ROH productions during autumn 2015
Lauren Cuthbertson as Juliet and Federico Bonelli as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012 Sky Arts have announced that a number of Royal Opera House productions will be broadcast via the...
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Na’ama Zisser to become Doctoral Composer-in-Residence at Guildhall School of...
Na'ama Zisser, second Doctoral Composer-in-Residence © Guildhall School. 2014. Photograph by Mariana Kazarnovsky This September, Na’ama Zisser will become the second Doctoral Composer-in-Residence at...
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Le nozze di Figaro to be relayed live to cinemas around the world on 5...
Anita Hartig as Susanna and Erwin Schrott as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, The Royal Opera © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Mark Douet Update (5/10/2015): In a change to casting, Sophie Bevan will now sing...
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The Opera Machine nominated for a prestigious Lovie Award 2015
The Opera Machine, a new interactive experience allowing you to see backstage at the opera © ROH 2014 The Royal Opera House’s Opera Machine has been nominated for the Lovie Awards 2015. The Opera...
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Watch: Members of the cast and creative teams on Le nozze di Figaro
Kate Lindsey as Cherubino and Krystian Adam as Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, The Royal Opera © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Mark Douet David McVicar’s Royal Opera production of Mozart's Le nozze di...
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