Review: The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance – 100 years producing dancers of the very highest calibre
Jonathan Gray sees the Summer Performance, celebrating The Royal Ballet School a century after its formation by Ninette de Valois.
Peter Wright
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The Royal Ballet School’s 100th graduate year achieves a 100% employment rate
In The Royal Ballet School’s 100th graduating class, this year consisting of 30 students, all have secured contracts with companies as they start their professional journeys.
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Interview: Darcey Bussell on her time at Birmingham Royal Ballet and Frederick Ashton’s Birthday Offering
Dame Darcey Bussell reflects on the start of her career with Birmingham Royal Ballet, performing Birthday Offering, and its technical demands.
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The Royal Ballet – complete 2026-2027 Season
The complete presentation, calendar and production details of the full Royal Ballet 2026-2027 Season.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrates Sir Peter Wright’s Centenary with Gala Performance
Sir Peter Wright Centenary on 18 June will feature highlights from the director and choreographer’s most beloved works, and a return by Carlos Acosta.
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Review: Mayara Magri’s ‘revelatory’ debut as Giselle with Matthew Ball and The Royal Ballet
Lily Hyde sees Mayara Magri’s debut as Giselle and thinks it ‘will go on to be regarded as timeless and perennial as Wright’s ballet itself’.
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Review: Marianela Nuñez and William Bracewell in The Royal Ballet’s Giselle
Jonathan Gray sees Marianela Nuñez (sincerity that touches the heart) and William Bracewell (his dancing and partnering was magnificent) in Peter Wright’s Giselle.
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Patricio Revé joins The Royal Ballet as Principal dancer
Director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare, today announced that Patricio Revé will join the Company as a Principal dancer from the start of the 2026/27 Season.
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Review: The Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker – the most elaborate and grandiose of all UK stagings – with Sasaki, Rovero, Zambon, Junker, and Hay
Jonathan Gray finds much to enjoy in Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker with an impressive young cast.
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Interview: The Royal Ballet’s Mariko Sasaki and Giacomo Rovero on preparing for the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince
I talked to Mariko Sasaki and Giacomo Rovero about preparing to dance The Sugar Plum Fairy and The Prince in The Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
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Review: Valentino Zucchetti’s The Nutcracker for New English Ballet Theatre
Lily Hyde sees Valentino Zucchetti’s production of The Nutcracker for New English Ballet Theatre – it’s a show with heart.
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Interview: Valentino Zucchetti, choreographer and Royal Ballet First Soloist, talks about his new Nutcracker
Lily Hyde talks to choreographer and Royal Ballet First Soloist Valentino Zucchetti as his new production of The Nutcracker for New English Ballet Theatre tours to the Bahamas before a pre-Christmas run in London.
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Sir Peter Wright celebrates his 99th birthday onstage with The Royal Ballet
On the opening night of The Nutcracker season, the Royal Ballet and Opera celebrated choreographer Sir Peter Wright’s 99th birthday.
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Review: The Royal Ballet is back with The Nutcracker – the magic really sings
Matthew Paluch sees The Nutcracker with the Royal Ballet and Opera – top-notch entertainment of quality, where the gold sparkles more than anywhere else.
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Review: Giselle with the National Ballet of Japan at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London
Jonathan Gray sees the National Ballet of Japan’s “triumphant” opening in London – excellent dancers in an impressive company debut.
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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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The Royal Ballet 2025/26 Season
The Royal Ballet’s 2025/26 Season with world premieres by Wayne McGregor, Cathy Marston, Akram Khan and Sol León and Paul Lightfoot.
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Voices of British Ballet’s new podcast and platform to celebrate the history of dance in Britain
Voices of British Ballet, the oral history project that began in 2002, will now be available online with podcasts from its vast library of interviews.
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Laurent Hilaire announces the Bayerisches Staatsballett’s 2025-2026 season
Laurent Hilaire has presented the Bayerisches Staatsballett’s 2025-2026 season, which sees three new mixed bills, world premieres, and house debuts.
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Review: Cinderella with Birmingham Royal Ballet – a company on glittering, reenergised form
Paul Arrowsmith sees Birmingham Royal Ballet in David Bintley’s Cinderella – told with dramatic and theatrical flair
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Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker, a much-loved production
Graham Watts kicks off the Christmas season seeing Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker with “oohs” and “ahhs” from a suitably enchanted audience.
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[Interview] Margaret Barbieri, assistant director of Sarasota Ballet, on the eve of the company’s performances at The Royal Opera House
Prima Ballerina and assistant director of Sarasota Ballet, Margaret Barbieri, talks to Paul Arrowsmith as the company celebrates Frederick Ashton in London.
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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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[Review] César Morales’ farewell performances in Sleeping Beauty with Birmingham Royal Ballet
Jonathan Gray sees César Morales in The Sleeping Beauty as he says farewell to Birmingham Royal Ballet
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The National Ballet of Canada: a farewell to Guillaume Côté, and a “hello London” with the National Ballet on tour
Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté will retire after 26 years with the National Ballet of Canada, and the company tours to London.
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The Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker with Anna Rose O’Sullivan and Marcelino Sambé – cinema audiences are in for a treat
Jonathan Gray returns to Nutcracker “on this special evening I was very glad to become acquainted with it all over again – cinema audiences are in for a treat”.
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NutcrackAR – Birmingham Royal Ballet’s augmented reality countdown to Nutcracker time
Birmingham Royal Ballet introduces the world’s first Nutcracker-themed augmented reality walk trail, ‘The 12 Days of NutcrackAR’, available on smart devices.
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Royal Ballet casting for autumn performances 2023 with role debuts
The Royal Ballet casting for main roles is announced for all performances from 30 September 2023 until 13 January 2024.
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Principal Brandon Lawrence to leave Birmingham Royal Ballet to join Ballett Zürich
Birmingham Royal Ballet will say farewell to Principal dancer Brandon Lawrence at the end of the 2022/2023 season when he leaves to join Ballett Zürich.
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[Review] Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake with guest Polina Semionova
Jonathan Gray returns to the lake to see “brilliant and fearless” Polina Semionova and the “magnificent” Brandon Lawrence with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.
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