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Dance
Director of the Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare tells Culture Whisper he’s excited to announce details of the 2021/22 programme, his first full season in a while
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Ashton's The Dream, the choreographer's masterful condensation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is the next stream in the Royal Opera House's Friday Premieres programme
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Good news at last: the Royal Opera House will open its doors on 17 May for a new season of live ballet and opera
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The Royal Ballet brings a measure of jollity to the ROH #OurHouseToYourHouse streaming platform with Kenneth MacMillan's ragtime work Elite Syncopations
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The Royal Ballet's gorgeous production of The Sleeping Beauty is to be streamed as part of the ROH's programme of Friday Premieres
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Ashton's sunny and delightful La Fille Mal Gardée is the next offering from The Royal Ballet in the Royal Opera House's #OurHouseToYourHouse series
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The Royal Opera House continues its online #OurHouseToYourHouse ballet programme with Nureyev's eye-filling production of Raymonda Act III
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Dance
The magic of Christmas is alive and well and dazzling audiences at the Royal Opera House in The Royal Ballet’s sparkling production of The Nutcracker
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As The Nutcracker takes to the stage at Covent Garden, director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare talks to Culture Whisper about staging a Covid-compliant Christmas ballet
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The Royal Opera House has unveiled a bumper programme of streamed ballet just in time for the festive season
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A couple of Nutcrackers join other seasonal productions in the cornucopia of dance on show in London this Christmas
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Dance
The Royal Ballet Live new programme, Within the Golden Hour, shows a company in glorious form determined to overcome the constraints of Covid
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The Royal Ballet streams a recording of the Ashton signature ballet, Enigma Variations, as part of the ROH Friday premieres series
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Dance
The Royal Ballet welcomed its first paying audience to the ROH with a mixed bill that offered a glimmer of light on the eve of renewed darkness
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Dance
World Ballet Day returns on Thursday 29 October, uniting companies the world over to celebrate an art form grievously affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
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Opera
The Royal Opera House has announced its autumn programme, jam-packed with new opera and classic ballet, and available to live and online audiences
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Opera
An operatic Italian double bill, a fresh take on a classic, and dance of intoxicating beauty are highlights from Covent Garden
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Opera
The Royal Opera House has unveiled its autumn/winter programme of ballet and opera to be screened in cinemas worldwide
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Opera
The ROH has announced two major opera and ballet events to be streamed live from its Covent Garden stage this autumn
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Opera
Ballet and opera from the Royal Opera House will be available to view in drive-in cinemas around the UK this summer
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Dance
The Royal Ballet streams choreographer Frederick Ashton’s sunniest ballet, La Fille Mal Gardée, as part of the Royal Opera House’s #OurHouseToYourHouse programe
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Dance
Culture Whisper talks to Marcelino Sambé and César Corrales, two of the Royal Ballet’s golden generation of male dancers featured in the BBC’s forthcoming documentary Men at the Barre
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Dance
Hailed as the Royal Ballet’s first classic for the 21st century, Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is the next big event in the ROH online programme
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s The Metamorphosis, an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s harrowing novella, becomes available online this week as part of the ROH’s programme of free curated broadcasts
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The Royal Ballet principal dancer Marcelino Sambé stars in Hello Marcelino, a thrilling short dance film coming to our small screens this Easter weekend
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Dance
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s full-evening ballet Mayerling, introduced by Darcey Bussell and Ore Oduba, is now available on BBC iPlayer
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Dance
Due to significant global travel disruption as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, The Royal Ballet has announced the cancellation of International Draft Works at the Linbury Theatre.
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Dance
Choreographer Cathy Marston’s dramatic first work for the ROH’s main stage, The Cellist, is paired with Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering in the Royal Ballet’s new Double Bill
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Dance
Aisha and Abhaya at the ROH’s Linbury Theatre is an ambitious multifaceted collaboration that fails to gel into any kind of coherent proposition
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Dance
A dream cast brought Onegin to life in the first night of the Royal Ballet’s revival of John Cranko’s powerful dance drama
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The Royal Ballet’s Spring Triple Bill brings together works by associate artists Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, and a powerful vintage piece by George Balanchine
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Culture Whisper sits in on a rehearsal of the Royal Ballet’s Onegin and talks to Principal Dancer Ryoichi Hirano about his debut in the demanding title role