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From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna Rose O'Sullivan

At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as the prima donna....

Genre: Music

Cast: María Callas

In a village in a country far away, the community live well and support each other. But when civil war breaks out this idyll of existence is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sting

The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fumi Kaneko

Coppélia, a mechanical doll made by the toy-maker Dr. Coppelius, is so life-like that some believe she is his daughter. The mistake leads to...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Leanne Benjamin

Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's totalitarian nightmare, where "Big Brother" is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Simon Keenlyside

In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers correctly,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna Pirozzi

Antonio Pappano conducts a full performance of the second opera in Richard Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen. During a storm, Sieglinde...

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Cast: Emily Magee

The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring Marianela Nunez as Odette/Odile and Vadim...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marianela Núñez

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired since its first performance at the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Roberto Alagna

Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christine Rice

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Danielle de Niese

This historic performance from 1968 captures Rudolf Nureyev at the peak of his career. Nureyev's legendary performance makes this the definitive...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Rudolf Nureyev

Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice...

Genre: Music

Cast: Asmik Grigorian

“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. His striking looks make him very much...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

Tchaikovsky’s much-loved music is matched to a story of magic on Christmas Eve, and the journey of Clara and her Nutcracker to the Land of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cesar Corrales

The 2015 production of "The Nutcracker" by the Royal Ballet

Genre: Music

Cast: Lauren Cuthbertson

Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Deon van der Walt

The priestess Norma loves Pollione, leader of the occupying force suppressing her people, and has borne two children by him. But Pollione’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonio Pappano