The Royal Opera and Ballet in Cinema 2015-2016

Romeo and Juliet, 22 September at 7.15pm
The Royal Ballet
By Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Sergey Prokofiev

Le nozze di Figaro, 5 October at 6.45pm
The Royal Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dir: David McVicar
Cond: Ivor Bolton
Cast includes Erwin Schrott and Anita Hartig

Viscera / Afternoon of a Faun / Tchaikovsky pas de deux / Carmen, 12 November at 7.15pm
The Royal Ballet
By Liam Scarlett / Jerome Robbins / George Balanchine / NEW Carlos Acosta
Music: Lowell Liebermann / Claude Debussy / Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky / Georges Bizet

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci NEW, 10 December at 7.15pm
The Royal Opera
Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo
Dir: Damiano Michieletto
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Cast includes Eva-Maria Westbroek, Dimitri Platanias, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Carmen Giannattasio

The Nutcracker, 16 December at 7.15pm
The Royal Ballet
By Peter Wright, after Lev Ivanov
Music: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

Rhapsody / The Two Pigeons, 26 January at 7.15pm
The Royal Ballet
By Frederick Ashton
Music: Sergey Rachmaninoff / André Messager, arranged by John Lanchbery

La traviata, 4 February at 6.45pm
The Royal Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Dir: Richard Eyre
Cond: Yves Abel
Cast includes Venera Gimadieva and Saimir Pirgu

Boris Godunov NEW, 21 March at 7.15pm
The Royal Opera
Modest Musorgsky
Dir: Richard Jones
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Cast includes Bryn Terfel, Kostas Smoriginas and John Tomlinson

Giselle, 6 April at 7.15pm
The Royal Ballet
By Marius Petipa, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot
Music: Adolphe Adam, revised by Joseph Horovitz

Lucia di Lammermoor NEW, 25 April at 7.15pm
The Royal Opera
Gaetano Donizetti
Dir: Katie Mitchell
Cond: Daniel Oren
Cast includes Diana Damrau and Charles Castronovo

Frankenstein NEW, 18 May at 7.15pm
The Royal Ballet
By Liam Scarlett
Music: Lowell Liebermann

Werther, 27 June at 7.15pm
The Royal Opera
Jules Massenet
Dir: Benoît Jacquot
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Cast includes Vittorio Grigolo and Joyce DiDonato

Gramilano( Editor )

Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.