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Performer: The Royal Ballet

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LondonLa Fille mal gardée

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Oct 31, Nov 05 mat, eve, 08 mat, eve, 11, 13
Hérold: La Fille mal gardée
Sir Frederick Ashton; The Royal Ballet; Jonathan Lo; Osbert Lancaster; John B. Read
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LondonPerspectives: Balanchine, Marston and Peck

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Nov 14, 15 mat, eve, 18, 20, 25, 28, Dec 02
Tchaikovsky, Britten, Stevens
George Balanchine; Cathy Marston; Justin Peck; The Royal Ballet; Martin Georgiev; Chloe Lamford; Barbara Karinska; John B. Read
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LondonThe Nutcracker

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Nov 22, 26 mat, eve, 27, 29 mat, eve, Dec 01, 03, 04 mat, eve, 05, 10, 12, 13, 16 mat, eve, 18 mat, 20 mat, 22 mat, eve, 23, 24 mat, 27, 29, 30 mat, eve, 31 mat, 2026 Jan 02, 03 mat, eve, 05
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Sir Peter Wright; The Royal Ballet; Koen Kessels; Julia Trevelyan Oman; Mark Henderson
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Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée: the most joyous of ballets

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Amanda Jennings, 18 Oct
If you’re in need of a pick-me-up, get thee to the Royal Opera House and see La Fille mal gardée, a gem of a ballet. There’s a long roster of impressive casts to choose from.
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Black History Month Draft Works: intriguing mix of ideas and styles

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Amanda Jennings, 06 Oct
Curated by Marcelino Sambé, Black History Month Draft Works at the Clore Studio gifted us an intriguing mix of ideas and styles providing food for thought as well as theatrical interest.
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The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

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Amanda Jennings, 01 Oct
The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.
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Miyako Yoshida brings National Ballet of Japan to London

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Deborah Weiss, 07 Jul
Miyako Yoshida talks about her deep connection to Giselle, bringing her own production to London with the National Ballet of Japan, and the challenges of being an artistic director.
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Ralph Fiennes to direct new staging of Eugene Onegin in Paris

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Bachtrack, 02 Apr
A longtime connoisseur of Pushkin’s novel, Fiennes’ production will hit the boards at Palais Garnier in February 2026.
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Oral history project Voices of British Ballet launches new podcast

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Bachtrack, 07 Mar
Encompassing over 500 interviews with people involved in the dance world, Voices of British Ballet aims to preserve important oral testimony from people instrumental to the development of ballet in the UK.
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