Royal Opera House
The week in dance: Nutcracker; Ruination; Cinderella review – sugar plums, hard centres and off to the ball
ENB’s new Nutcracker recaptures the joy, while Royal Ballet finesse shines through the bling in a Frederick Ashton classic. Plus, a searing festive antidote from Ben Duke
Sarah Crompton
22, Dec, 2024 @10:00 AM
The week in classical: La bohème; London Contemporary Music festival – review
Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska is an unforgettable Mimì in Richard Jones’s ever sumptuous Puccini production. And mischief rules at this year’s LCMF
Fiona Maddocks
21, Dec, 2024 @1:00 PM
New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music
It was a thrilling year with glittering new works, an electrifying Proms season, Puccini in a laundry and Britten on a trapeze
Imogen Tilden
17, Dec, 2024 @5:33 PM
La Bohème review – action rather than angst in lively revival
Richard Jones’s 2017 staging returns to Covent Garden with a young and light-hearted group of bohemians. In the pit Speranza Scappucci keeps things moving musically
Martin Kettle
17, Dec, 2024 @3:59 PM
The week in classical: Opera triple bill: Britten, Weill and Ravel; Hänsel und Gretel; Tosca – review
Two opera studio shows find the next generation of stars in rude health, while the Royal Opera’s latest Tosca revival is the ultimate class act
Fiona Maddocks
30, Nov, 2024 @1:00 PM
Tosca review – Bryn Terfel’s lustful Scarpia returns to intimidate and compel
Natalya Romaniw brings vulnerability and depth to Tosca and, in the pit, Eun Sun Kim conducts with subtlety and delicacy in this revival of Jonathan Kent’s staging
Martin Kettle
27, Nov, 2024 @4:03 PM
‘Opera should be an unstoppable art form’: Royal Opera announce Netia Jones as associate director
The Royal Ballet and Opera have created a new role, allowing Jones to drive development and new commissions
Imogen Tilden
26, Nov, 2024 @12:01 AM
The week in dance: MaddAddam; Gigenis: the Generation of the Earth – review
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian vision provides rich inspiration for Wayne McGregor, while Akram Khan goes back to his Indian classical roots to transfixing effect
Sarah Crompton
24, Nov, 2024 @10:00 AM
The week in classical: The Tales of Hoffmann; Philharmonia/ Salonen; Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko – review
Wild fantasies take hold in Offenbach’s compellingly strange opera; Lawrence Power is more than a match for Magnus Lindberg’s new Viola Concerto; and to the underworld with the Berlin Phil
Fiona Maddocks
16, Nov, 2024 @1:00 PM
‘Take anything, but please not my voice!’: the Royal Opera’s Sound Voice Project
In a space that usually rings with opera, a poignant and moving video installation examines the intimate connection between our voices and our selves
Flora Willson
15, Nov, 2024 @4:08 PM
MaddAddam review – an epic dance through Margaret Atwood’s dystopia
Wayne McGregor’s take on the novelist’s complex tale is ambitious, beautiful and, though wanting in some parts, redeemed by incredible performances
Lyndsey Winship
15, Nov, 2024 @10:28 AM
Ballet Black: Heroes review – double bill explores everyday heroism and the purgatory of daily life
Sophie Laplane’s If at First switches so fast stylistically that it might be garbled, while Mthuthuzeli November’s The Waiting Game stages an existential crisis
Lyndsey Winship
08, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM
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