The Royal Opera House has launched a streaming service that offers 45 performances from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera's archives. Together with these are also 85 behind-the-scenes features, trailers, talks and Insights.
Royal Opera House Stream costs £9.99 a month or £99 annually.
Brand-new titles will be made available monthly, along with more behind-the-scenes content. The first selection contains two of last season's most celebrated productions: Wayne McGregor's The Dante Project, available from launch; and Oliver Mears' Rigoletto with Carlos Álvarez and Lisette Oropesa, which will be available from Thursday 20 October 2022. Both are available in UHD and come complete with ‘wrap-around material': an opera masterclass, artists in conversation, and a sneak peek at The Royal Ballet's rehearsals ahead of their world premiere.
Alongside those new titles, Royal Opera House Stream offers a 45-performance catalogue, which includes full-length performances from the past two decades: Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée, Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale, Wagner's Die Walküre, Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole and Puccini's Tosca. The titles can be accessed on a mobile, computer or Smart TV.
Back-stage films and masterclasses include Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann who discuss their debuts in Manon Lescaut; Antonio Pappano explores Puccini's La bohème; Roderick Williams discovers Opera: Passion, Power and Politics at the V&A ahead of The Magic Flute; and playwright Martin Crimp, composer George Benjamin and stage director Katie Mitchell describe their sell-out production of Written on Skin.
The Royal Ballet offers Alice in Wonderland rehearsals, a feature on costume designs with Bob Crowley; principal dancers Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov discussing Peter Wright's Giselle, their first narrative ballet together; and Kenneth MacMillan's insights into Manon, relayed by his wife Deborah.
“Find something new; experience the magic; feel inspired.”
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE STREAM
NEW TITLES
The Royal Opera
RIGOLETTO (2021)
Available from Thursday 20 October 2022
The Royal Ballet
THE DANTE PROJECT (2021)
Available from launch
BACK CATALOGUE
The Royal Ballet
DANCES AT A GATHERING (2020)
RAYMONDA ACT 3 (2019)
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY (2020)
WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR (2019)
FLIGHT PATTERN (2019)
THE WINTER'S TALE (2018)
MANON (2018)
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (2017)
GISELLE (2016)
SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS (2017)
THE DREAM (2017)
RHAPSODY (2016)
INFRA (2008)
DON QUIXOTE (2013)
LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE (2005)
COPPÉLIA (2019)
SWAN LAKE (2018)
YUGEN (2018)
CORYBANTIC GAMES (2018)
ENIGMA VARIATIONS (2019)
ANASTASIA (2016)
ELITE SYNCOPATIONS (2010)
THE JUDAS TREE (2010)
CONCERTO (2010)
The Royal Opera
LA BOHÈME (2020)
DON GIOVANNI (2019)
ANNA NICOLE (2011)
LA TRAVIATA (2019)
FAUST (2019)
DIE WALKÜRE (2018)
THE MAGIC FLUTE (2017)
TOSCA (2011)
MANON LESCAUT (2014)
WRITTEN ON SKIN (2013)
ANDREA CHÉNIER (2015)
NORMA (2016)
CENDRILLON (2011)
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (2007)
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (2015)
PARSIFAL (2013)
HANSEL AND GRETEL (2008)
DON PASQUALE (2019)
MACBETH (2011)
COSÌ FAN TUTTE (2016)
NABUCCO (2022)
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.
