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The country house opera season begins, London goes baroque, and there's a last chance to catch English National Opera's big hit, Blue

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A. new Ring Cycle begins in Sir Antonio Pappano's final year as music director, and favourite operas return alongside other new productions

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In the Linbury Theatre, rising Jette Parker Artists bring Handel into the modern world

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A tense drama unfolds when a bereaved mother finds herself amid the family of the boy who killed her daughter, in Kaija Saariaho's hard-hitting opera

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Mozart, Verdi and Massenet bring to a close the spectacular 22/23 season in four must-see productions. Stand by to book from 9am on Thurs 13 April

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The Royal Ballet’s new production of Cinderella, one of the Ashton jewels in its repertoire, is sumptuous, enchanting and thoroughly entertaining

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After a ravishing start, this often handsome production of Dvorak's opera loses momentum and falls short of its laudable ambitions

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Superstar Lise Davidsen sings the forsaken sweetheart of a talented singer who swops true love for sex, in Wagner's opera

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The ruined life of a hidden Kennedy is vividly and movingly re-created in a powerful and imaginative opera

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Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, adapted from Laura Esquivel’s best-selling Mexican family saga for The Royal Ballet, will be shown in cinemas nationwide

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Freddie De Tommaso and Natalya Romaniw bring youth and promise to a fine production of Puccini's opera

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The Royal Ballet’s glorious production of the Christmas ballet par excellence, The Nutcracker, is now firmly installed on the main stage at Covent Garden

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A new production in the Linbury Theatre of Benjamin Britten's opera is unsparing in its depiction of toxic masculinity

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A glamorous and witty new production of Handel's opera is a great all-round theatrical experience

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Dance at its most varied this month

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Tickets are now on general sale for The Royal Ballet's Winter Season, featuring two 'big beasts' and a few smaller but no less enticing programmes

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World Ballet Day returns to our screens, bringing a wealth of behind-the-scenes live footage from a record number of international companies

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Light of Passage, choreographer Crystal Pite’s reworking of her award-winning piece on the refugee crisis for The Royal Ballet, has had its world premiere at the ROH

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The Royal Ballet opened its new season with a star-studded near-perfect performance of Kenneth MacMillan’s emotionally devastating Mayerling

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A promising opening of the 2022-23 season

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Robert Carsen's prescient new production of Verdi's opera finds parallels in today's headlines

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Ballet Black continues its 20th anniversary celebrations by bringing its double bill Say it Loud to the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre

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Passions run high and jealousy proves deadly in this award-winning, heat-soaked double bill

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A superb performance in the title role is a thrilling addition to a fine production of Puccini's moving opera

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Young dancers from across the globe join forces in the Next Generation Festival, hosted by the ROH Linbury Theatre to celebrate young talent

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The Royal Ballet's sumptuous production of the much-loved Swan Lake comes to a cinema near you in a live relay from Covent Garden

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What's in a name? Everything, when Elsa falls for a mysterious stranger in Wagner's romantic opera. Jennifer Davis reprises a landmark role in this revival of David Alden's production

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There's light and shade, and old and new in the packed 2022/23 Royal Ballet season, which has just been announced

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The American choreographer Kyle Abraham talks to Culture Whisper about The Weathering, his first major commission by the Royal Ballet, and his approach to artistic creation

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The Royal Opera House puts on a series of performances in aid of the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

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Deborah Warner directs a new production of Benjamin Britten's opera. A Suffolk village rises up when a lone fisherman loses an apprentice at sea

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The Royal Opera House joined Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels with Ola Maciejewska’s Bombyx Mori, which had its UK premiere at the Linbury Theatre