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| Address | Bow Street,
Covent Garden London WC2E 9DD United Kingdom |
| Contains | Royal Opera House, Clore Studio Upstairs Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House: The Crush Room |
| Google maps | 51° 30' 48.136" N 0° 7' 20.640" W |
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LondonCommunion of Light – Joburg Ballet
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Shostakovich, Various
Tumelo Lekana; Dada Masilo; Jorge Pérez Martinez; Veronica Paeper; Dane Hurst; Joburg Ballet; Tammy Higgins; Latoya Mokoena; Revil Yon; Thando Mgobhozi
LondonThe Magic Flute
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Marie Jacquot; Sir David McVicar; The Royal Opera; Finnegan Downie Dear; John Macfarlane; Paule Constable
LondonThe Makropulos CaseNew production
Janáček: The Makropulos Case (Věc Makropulos)
Jakub Hrůša; Katie Mitchell; The Royal Opera; Vicki Mortimer; Sussie Juhlin-Wallén; James Farncombe; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
LondonLa Fille mal gardée
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Hérold: La Fille mal gardée
Sir Frederick Ashton; The Royal Ballet; Jonathan Lo; Osbert Lancaster; John B. Read
LondonPerspectives: Balanchine, Marston and Peck
Tchaikovsky, Britten, Stevens
George Balanchine; Cathy Marston; Justin Peck; The Royal Ballet; Martin Georgiev; Chloe Lamford; Barbara Karinska; John B. Read
LondonRebirth: Robbins, Page, Ratmansky, Chu
Copland, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky
Jerome Robbins; Ashley Page; Alexei Ratmansky; Tasha Chu; London City Ballet
LondonThe Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Sir Peter Wright; The Royal Ballet; Koen Kessels; Julia Trevelyan Oman; Mark Henderson
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Communion of Light: Joburg Ballet makes a promising UK debut
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Joburg Ballet makes a promising, if somewhat initially tentative, UK debut with a programme of five works, four by South African choreographers.
Northern Ballet's Little Red Riding Hood: a fully engaged audience
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Northern Ballet's Little Red Riding Hood gives young ones a perfect introduction to ballet, without any teeth.
Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée: the most joyous of ballets
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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.
The Magic Flute returns in triumph to the Royal Opera House
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Sir David McVicar's classic staging of The Magic Flute, now over 20 years old, shines afresh in a stylish performance conducted by Marie Jacquot, making her Covent Garden debut.
Black History Month Draft Works: intriguing mix of ideas and styles
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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.
The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex
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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.
Hrůša’s ambitious but uneven Night at Covent Garden
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Dvořák’s rarely heard oratorio The Spectre’s Bride fails to ignite, leaving a performance caught uneasily between respect and restlessness.
Diminishing returns in The Royal Opera’s Sicilian Vespers
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Joyce El-Khoury saves the day in The Royal Opera’s second revival of The Sicilian Vespers in Stefan Herheim’s paint-by-numbers production.