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
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
Chiedo di inviarmi notizie Sulla stagione di opera al cinema 2015-2016; grazie!
The complete Royal Opera House opera and ballet programme is here: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/royal-opera-house-live-cinema-season-201516. The other main companies (Bolshoi, Paris, Met etc) have all got sections on their sites or on the sites of the distributors. Happy viewing!