Interview: Steven McRae and Vasko Vassilev talk about their Royal Ballet project at the Linbury Theatre
The Royal Ballet opens its 2026/27 Linbury Theatre season on 11 September with The McRae / Vassilev Project, a unique evening of music and dance.
Antonio Pappano
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The Royal Opera – complete 2026-2027 Season
The complete presentation, calendar and production details of the full Royal Opera 2026-2027 Season.
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Interview: Angela Gheorghiu, betrayed by Pappano and Kaufmann, and still loving Alagna
Angela Gheorghiu never hides her true thoughts… here she talks about Callas, Pappano, Kaufmann, Alagna’s jealousy and her present happiness.
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Teatro La Scala pays tribute to Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani – who died yesterday in Milan at the age of 91 – was a pillar of Milanese cultural life, including his support for opera and ballet at Teatro della Scala.
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Royal Ballet and Opera announces 2025/26 Cinema Season
The Royal Ballet and Opera will bring nine productions from London to 1,500 cinema screens in 50 countries for 2025/26.
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Dance impresario Daniele Cipriani to direct the Spoleto Festival
The Italian Minister of Culture has nominated dance impresario Daniele Cipriani to direct the Spoleto Festival from 2026.
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The Royal Opera 2025/26 Season
The Royal Opera 2025/26 Season with its new musical director, Jakub Hrůša, and 8 new productions.
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Royal Ballet and Opera announces 2024-2025 Cinema Season
The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2024-2025 Cinema Season including two new opera productions: The Tales of Hoffmann and Die Walküre.
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The Royal Opera announces its 2024-2025 Season
The Royal Opera season 2024-2025 with presentation, casting, dates and a new name.
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Royal Opera House announces 2023-2024 opera and ballet Cinema Season
The Royal Opera House has announced its next Cinema Season with 13 productions, eight of which will be broadcast to screens around the world.
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Royal Opera House Stream goes live with 130 titles
The Royal Opera House has launched its new streaming service with 45 performances and 85 behind-the-scenes features.
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Royal Opera House Ballet and Opera season 2022-2023 in brief
The Royal Opera House’s Opera and Ballet programming for 2022-2023 with new productions and world premieres.
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Royal Opera House dance and opera initiatives for Ukraine
Today, the Royal Opera House unveiled fundraising initiatives in support of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
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The Royal Opera House: opera, ballet, cinema in 2022
The Royal Opera House in 2022 – opera, ballet, cinema. Covent Garden continues its first full season since 2019.
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The Royal Opera House 2021-2022 opera season
The Royal Opera House announces its 2021/22 Season, the first full Season since 2019, opening on Monday 13 September.
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Pappano to leave The Royal Opera and take over at the LSO
The Royal Opera House has confirmed that Antonio Pappano will continue as Music Director of The Royal Opera until the end of the 2023/24 Season, after which he will join the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) as Chief Conductor.
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The Royal Opera reveals plans for the 2021-2022 season
In the first complete season since 2019, The Royal Opera has announced its early plans for its 2021-2022 season.
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[Interview] Antonio Pappano on adapting in strange times
Antonio Pappano talks about his work with the Orchestra and Chorus of Santa Cecilia in Rome (and not cashing in his paycheque).
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Full Royal Opera House TV and streaming times for the Christmas period
The Royal Opera House has announced its biggest ever programme of streaming and digital content, across a large range of platforms, “brought straight from our house to your house” over the Christmas period.
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The Royal Opera House unveils its programme for live audiences this autumn
The Royal Opera House has announced “an exciting, wide-ranging new line-up” for its autumn programme.
For the first time, performances will be accessible online for a global audience through live streams and for socially distanced audiences at Covent Garden. In a “global first” there will be a new opera in hyper-reality, alongside repertory favourites from both artistic companies.
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#OurHouseToYourHouse: tonight’s Royal Opera House’s 2nd live concert and next week’s programme
Tonight is the second of the Live from Covent Garden concerts at 7.30pm BST which will be broadcast via the Royal Opera House website from Covent Garden. These are the first live performances at the Royal Opera House since the building closed its doors to the public on 17 March.
Tonight’s concert includes a performance of Albert Schönberg’s reduction of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with tenor David Butt Philip, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and soloists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet Vadim Muntagirov will perform Frederick Ashton’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits. The solo was initially created in 1978 for Anthony Dowell and is a showcase of balance and poise.
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Royal Opera House announces its first live performances since lockdown
The Royal Opera House has announced its ‘Live from Covent Garden’ project: a series of three unique performances to be broadcast live via YouTube and Facebook from Covent Garden.
The first concert, on 13 June at 7.30 pm, will be hosted by the BBC’s Anita Rani and the Royal Opera House’s Director of Music, Antonio Pappano. A select group of musicians, artists and performers will be part of the first live concerts since the theatre closed its doors to the public on 17 March.
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Designer Luisa Spinatelli’s Le Corsaire team fêted in Milan
The Amici della Scala association (Friends of La Scala) are always ready to celebrate: maybe it’s a question and answer session with Antonio Pappano, a talk by Placido Domingo, a presentation of one of the association’s newly published books (they have an extensive collection) – whatever, evenings always finish with an upheld glass and the cutting…
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Interview with Angela Gheorghiu on Draculina, Kaufmann, capriciousness and corruption
The autobiography of outspoken soprano Angela Gheorghiu — Angela Gheorghiu: A Life for Art — comes out in October. Her candidness will obviously make for fascinating reading. In an interview with the Corriere della sera she was as unbuttoned as ever. If I am the black sheep of my profession because I have my own…
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Daniela Barcellona collects Olivier Awards for Semiramide
Daniela Barcellona and Joyce DiDonato have won Olivier Awards for Best Achievement in Opera for their roles in The Royal Opera House‘s production of Semiramide. Semiramide was also the winner of Best New Opera Production at the annual award ceremony, this year held at the Royal Albert Hall. Barcellona accepted both of the awards on behalf of…
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#OperaPassion from the BBC with a live streaming day, events on TV and radio, and the V&A’s “Opera: Passion, Power and Politics”
Tony Hall, currently the Director-General of the BBC but previously the Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House from 2001 until 2013, is bringing his opera experience to broadcasting in a bold new collaborative project. Across the season, which starts on 30 September, the BBC will work with 12 UK partners, including major cultural organisations…
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Cecilia Bartoli and Antonio Pappano in conversation and concert in Rome
Cecilia Bartoli and Antonio Pappano celebrated Mozart’s 261st birthday with a concert in Rome. Pappano was conducting his orchestra and chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at the Parco della Musica auditorium, which is Bartoli’s choice venue on the few occasions when she sings in her home town. ANSA wrote that, Mozart couldn’t…
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ROYAL OPERA SEASON 2016 – 2017: theatre, cinema and radio
All the details of the 2016-2017 Opera Season at London’s Royal Opera House: skip to section: ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON – IN BRIEF THE ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON THE ROYAL OPERA SEASON 2016-2017 – IN FULL BBC RADIO 3 AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LIVE CINEMA SEASON ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON…
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Carlo Colombara answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? When I was 21. Why did you start singing? For fun. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Ettore Bastianini. Which singer do you most admire? Boris Christoff. What’s your favourite role? Boris Godunov. What role have you never played but would have liked to?…
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Marco Berti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? More or less I’ve always sung. First at my local church, then one day my cousin, who sung Ave Marie for weddings, gave me the chance to try and I did. Since then I’ve never stopped. Why did you start singing? Like almost all singers, for passion,…
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