The Royal Opera House has announced a series of live performance broadcasts, together with some repertory favourites from both The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera, throughout the November lockdown period. Opera A live-streamed concert performance of Ariodante will be broadcast on on Friday 20 November at 7.30pm GMT, available … [Read more...] about Royal Opera House announces live performance broadcasts during November lockdown
The Royal Ballet
Interviews with 3 Royal Ballet principals: Nuñez, Cuthbertson, Naghdi
I hope you have enjoyed, or still are enjoying, World Ballet Day 2020. During the long segment from The Royal Ballet you will have seen Marianela Nuñez and Yasmine Naghdi during class and in rehearsal. Lauren Cuthbertson is in the last stages of her pregnancy so this year wasn't present as she chose probably the best time in the history of the company to take time off. … [Read more...] about Interviews with 3 Royal Ballet principals: Nuñez, Cuthbertson, Naghdi
#WorldBalletDay 2020: The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi and Australian Ballet itineraries for 29 October
World Ballet Day 2020 on 29 October, will be the biggest ever celebration of global dance with 40 dance companies participating in this year’s live streamed event. Dance companies from around the world will join the Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet and The Royal Ballet including Singapore Dance, Joburg Ballet, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre and Ballet Concierto de Puerto … [Read more...] about #WorldBalletDay 2020: The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi and Australian Ballet itineraries for 29 October
#WorldBalletDay 2020
World Ballet Day returns on 29 October 2020 for a global celebration to unite the dance community as it faces the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. World Ballet Day was launched in 2014 and now returns for its seventh year, showing the best of global dance and allowing audiences to go behind the scenes at The Australian … [Read more...] about #WorldBalletDay 2020
[Interview] The Royal Ballet’s director, Kevin O’Hare, on returning to the Covent Garden stage
The Royal Ballet’s director, Kevin O’Hare, says about lockdown, I needed [the dancers] as much as they probably needed me. I think we have managed to keep the company spirit. Of course, we have missed each other, but I don’t think it’s naive to say that through it all, the Zoom classes, the Pilates, the daily updates, we’ve constantly made sure we’re all in it together. It … [Read more...] about [Interview] The Royal Ballet’s director, Kevin O’Hare, on returning to the Covent Garden stage
Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years
1910 saw George V ascend to the throne, the trial and execution of Dr Crippen, the publication of E M Forster’s Howard’s End and the birth of Alice Marks, later Alicia Markova, the country’s first prima ballerina. 1910 was also the year that Phillip J S Richardson founded Dancing Times – it was the first independent magazine devoted solely to dance. The magazine soldiered on … [Read more...] about Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years
The Royal Opera House unveils its programme for live audiences this autumn
#OurHouseToYourHouseThe Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet present: 4/4 and New Dark Age – two brand-new opera productions Current, Rising – world’s first new opera in hyper-realityMeet the Young Artists Week The Royal Ballet: Live Concert performances of Ariodante and Falstaff The Royal Ballet: Back on Stage The Nutcracker and The Royal Opera in … [Read more...] about The Royal Opera House unveils its programme for live audiences this autumn
The new Royal Opera House Pocket Photobook
The Royal Opera House is one of the world’s leading performing arts venues, so there is naturally much interest in the production of the performances. The new Pocket Photo Book from Thames & Hudson has 120 photographs by the landscape photographer Harry Cory Wright “that capture the charm and the splendour of this London landmark”. The photographs capture architect … [Read more...] about The new Royal Opera House Pocket Photobook
Marquee TV launches a free Summer Shorts Festival on 3 August
The performing arts streaming service Marquee TV has partnered with the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Screen.dance Festival, Scottish Ballet, and others, for a month-long festival from 3 August. During its Summer Shorts Festival, the service will debut a curated selection of 28 short films from around the world each day, focused on dance and music, that will be free for … [Read more...] about Marquee TV launches a free Summer Shorts Festival on 3 August
Marquee TV – the Netflix for the arts – now streaming MacMillan’s Mayerling
Marquee TV has been called “the new Netflix for the arts” with its global streaming TV service for dance, opera and theatre. It has a pleasing interface and, more importantly, some great content collaborating with The Royal Opera House, English National Ballet, the Royal Shakespeare Company and many others. As part of a collaborative response to the COVID-19 lockdown, since … [Read more...] about Marquee TV – the Netflix for the arts – now streaming MacMillan’s Mayerling