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Highlights from the recent World Ballet Day stream are now available on demand via YouTube.
World Ballet Day saw The Royal Ballet partner with The Australian Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and San Francisco Ballet for 20 hours of live-streaming on YouTube from the companies' respective home theatres.
There were over 300,000 views of the live-stream and each company has uploaded highlights to their channels, offering another chance to catch rehearsals, interviews and behind the scenes glimpses from the day.
Highlights from The Royal Ballet's four hours of streaming included:
Daily class in full
Each company offered glimpses into their morning class. In London, Ballet Master Brian Maloney took gave a glimpse into the barre and floor work that dancers begin each day with, accompanied by a live pianist.
Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli on Manon
Royal Ballet Principals Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli gave an insight into what it takes to dance Kenneth MacMillan's dramatic ballet Manon. As well as this, an extended pas de deux rehearsal is available to watch to those who access the free World Ballet Day guide (claim yours using the code 'worldballet14').
Don Quixote in rehearsal
Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet and choreographer, Carlos Acosta coached Principal Vadim Muntagirov through one of Basilio's solos from Carlos's production of Don Quixote. Vadim will make his Royal Ballet role debut as Basilio later this Season.
Pirouettes from around the world
We asked for your pirouette clips and you sent them in by the thousand, from as far afield as Russia, Japan, Australia and Brazil. We received over 14,000 pirouette clips via Instagram alone!
...And if you're still after more
Other highlights on our World Ballet Day YouTube playlist include a rehearsal of Christopher Wheeldon's Olivier Award-winning Aeternum, and Liam Scarlett interviewed alongside his cast about the process of creating a new work:
To ensure you don't miss out on further clips and information about future live-streams, subscribe to our YouTube channel:
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[Updated 2 October 2014]
FULL LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE (Times in UK BST)
You can watch the full livestream here:
Swan Lake in rehearsal
Swan Lake in rehearsal (pas de deux)
Ostinato in rehearsal
La Bayadère in rehearsal
Interview with Alexander Vetrov and Ludmila Semenyaka, Senior Ballet Teachers
Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Rodkin in rehearsal, Principal Dancer and Leading Soloist
Interview with Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Rodkin
"Hero of our time" in Bauprobe
Interview with Yuri Grigorovich, Resident choreographer
"A Legend of Love" in rehearsal (corps de ballet)
"La Sylphide" in rehearsal
Interview with Artem Ovcharenko and Anna Tikhomirova, Principal Dancer and First Soloist
Interview with Anton Getman, Deputy General Director
"Taming of the Shrew" in rehearsal
Interview with Jean-Christophe Maillot, Choreographer; Director - Choreographer of the Ballet de Monte-Carlo;
Interview with Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov, Principal Dancers
Interview with Sergey Filin, Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Ballet
Interview with Vladimir Urin, General Director, The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Age of Anxiety in rehearsal
Manon in rehearsal
Interview with Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor
Cassandra in rehearsal
Interview with Kevin O'Hare. Director, The Royal Ballet
Don Quixote in rehearsal
Aeternum in rehearsal
Scènes de ballet in rehearsal
Manon Act 1 in rehearsal
Manon Act 2 in rehearsal
Nijinsky in rehearsal
Interview with Helgi Tomasson
Don Quixote in rehearsal
RAkU in rehearsal
Concerto Grosso in rehearsal
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude in rehearsal
The World Ballet Day live-stream on 1 October will see extraordinary and unprecedented access behind the scenes from five of the world's leading ballet companies - The Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and San Francisco Ballet.
The day will begin in Sydney at 3am BST and finish in San Francisco at 11pm BST. Each Company will start their day with Class and then open their rehearsal studios to the cameras to see what really goes on in the hours before curtain up.
The Royal Ballet's section runs 11am-3pm BST and will be hosted by TV and radio presenter George Lamb.
During the four hours from Covent Garden, viewers around the world will see Carlos Acosta coach Principal Vadim Muntagirov in the role of Basilio in Don Quixote. Carlos's production was first performed to acclaim last year and will be revived by The Royal Ballet in November.
Principals Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli will rehearse Kenneth MacMillan's Manon in preparation for the ROH Live cinema screening being relayed around the world on Thursday 16 October.
Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett will rehearse his new work The Age of Anxiety with Principals Laura Morera and Steven McRae prior to its premiere on on Friday 7 November. The ballet is inspired by W.H. Auden's poem about four disparate characters in a wartime New York bar trying to make sense of their shifting worlds.
The full Company will be seen in rehearsal for Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon's latest one act work for The Royal Ballet, his award winning Aeternum, which had its premiere in 2013; and Frederick Ashton's Scènes de ballet, the ballet Ashton himself claimed to be his favourite.
Company First Artist and choreographer Ludovic Ondiviela will rehearse his first Royal Ballet commission Cassandra which will have its premiere in October as part of the Company's Linbury Studio Programme.
As well as rehearsals, artistic insights will also be given through interviews. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor will be interviewed about creating Woolf Works, his first full-length work for the Company based on the writings and life of the seminal English author Virginia Woolf; and Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare will talk about what he and the Company are most excited about over the Season ahead.
Highlights from other companies include:
Exact timings will be available soon.
The day's streaming will be repeated on YouTube in full, giving viewers around the world the opportunity to catch up on any parts of the day they missed.]]>
Rising choreographic talent Charlotte Edmonds is creating her first dance film for Deloitte Ignite 2014.
The film will be screened at the Royal Opera House during the month-long festival of contemporary arts, which includes many free events.
The Indifferent Beak – inspired by W.B. Yeats's poetic adaptation of Leda and the Swan – will have its world premiere as part of Sampling the Myth on 5 September. The film will also be broadcast live and free on giant screens in the Paul Hamlyn Hall alongside two other new film commissions from choreographers Kim Brandstrup and Robert Binet.
In the Leda and the Swan myth, the god Zeus seduces Leda by transforming himself into a swan. Royal Ballet dancers Claire Calvert and Eric Underwood will play the parts of Leda and Zeus in this new film adaptation of the tale.
'[The dancers] have a really good chemistry', says Charlotte. 'I think it's important to have that, especially with this story.'
Charlotte studied at The Royal Ballet School before continuing her training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. This short film for Deloitte Ignite will be a career-first for the young choreographer.
'If I am choreographing something on stage, I have this blank canvas, a box; and it's easy to map out positions and structures', says Charlotte about the process. 'But with film, you've got to think about what the camera angle is going to be, where the location is going to be…It's really made me grow as a choreographer.'
Sampling the Myth runs until 7 September and includes a collaboration between Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili and dancer-choreographer Aakash Odedra; extracts from Mikhail Fokine's The Firebird and The Dying Swan, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, George Balanchine's Apollo and Wayne McGregor's Raven Girl; and the world premiere of a new dance piece by Rambert's Miguel Altunaga.
Deloitte Ignite, curated by The Royal Ballet with the National Gallery's Minna Moore Ede, runs 5–28 September and includes a wide range of free and ticketed events. Tickets are still available.]]>
'I enjoy choreographing on males,' says Royal Ballet Soloist Kristen McNally. 'They have a grounded way of movement that doesn't come as easily to classical female dancers; that grounded, strong movement is what I enjoy making.'
Kristen has been dancing with The Royal Ballet for 14 years, and contributes regularly to Draft Works, a platform for experimental choreography by Royal Ballet dancers. Now, she is creating a new work for all-male dance company BalletBoyz theTALENT as part of Deloitte Ignite 2014, a month-long festival of dance and visual art featuring a number of free events.
'This is a complete change for me,' she says. 'I have done most of my work with my Royal Ballet colleagues, and now I've got ten men to choreograph on, who are not all classically trained.'
Kristen will demonstrate her approach to choreography in open rehearsals with BalletBoyz theTALENT during the opening weekend of the festival. Her piece will then be performed in a mixed programme with work by Royal Ballet's Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon and Choreographic Affiliate Alexander Whitley, opening on 16 September in the Linbury Studio Theatre. Tickets are now available.
Deloitte Ignite, a contemporary arts festival curated by The Royal Ballet and Minna Moore Ede of the National Gallery, runs throughout September. This year's festival is inspired by myth.
'The Deloitte festival includes art, film, photography, choreography, workshops,' says Kristen. 'It's a great way to let people come to the opera house without having to pay for a ticket. The Royal Opera House is an amazing place that involves so many talented people, and Deloitte opens it up and shows people that.'
Deloitte Ignite runs from 5-28 September 2014 and includes a wide range of free and ticketed events. Reserve your tickets now.
'Be prepared' is most famous as the motto of the Scouts, but it's a maxim that is equally as embraced by ballet dancers.
A dancer's ballet bag is an essential bit of kit that they take with them wherever they go – in rehearsals, during breaks and in their dressing rooms; it's always to hand. But what do they contain? We asked two Royal Ballet dancers – Marianela Nuñez and Yasmine Naghdi – what their ballet bag essentials are:
The Royal Opera House Shop stocks a range of dance wear and beauty products.
Watch films on our YouTube channel about how pointe shoes are made, and how dancers prepare them for the stage.
For Royal Ballet dancers, rehearsals take up a significant portion of the working day. In a Company that performs up to twenty ballets a Season, an intensive schedule is vital if the dancers are to learn the choreography for the works in their repertory – whether that is the corps de ballet mastering steps in perfect formations, or principals perfecting taxing solo roles. But rehearsals are so much more than cramming sessions. Time spent in the studio is often integral to the development of new works, as choreographers take inspiration from their dancers and the individual qualities of their bodies.
Serenade was the first piece George Balanchine choreographed in America and was created in 1934 as a graduation exercise for the first students of his School of American Ballet. The School was taught in evening sessions that by all accounts could be quite chaotic. And so studio mishaps – such as one girl arriving late and another falling over and bursting into tears – were incorporated into the choreography, breaking up the ballet's orderly formations and providing some of its most dramatic moments. Balanchine also built the rehearsal environment right into the structure of Serenade by casting it for 17 dancers – all the dancers he had. He later willfully explained:
'I have seventeen dancers...If I had only sixteen, [an] even amount, there would be two lines. And now people ask me, why do you place them that way? Because I have seventeen.'
Jerome Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun, set in a dream-world rehearsal studio, is at once sardonic and haunting. Robbins was inspired by watching New York City Ballet dancers rehearsing. A man and a woman come together in a pas de deux, each entirely absorbed in their own reflections in an invisible downstage mirror. The opening of the ballet, where the young man dozes languidly on the floor, was an explicit quotation from Robbins's environment, as Bart Cook, a former New York City Ballet dancer who was present when Robbins staged the work, explained: 'the story goes that [Robbins] walked by one of the studios and saw Eddie Villella [then a new dancer in the company] sleeping in the sun'.
The practice of being influenced by the rehearsal room isn't just confined to the work of these two choreographers, however: Kenneth MacMillan once described his rehearsal process as 'sort of improvisation', and said that anything else would be like 'painting by numbers'. Christopher Wheeldon explained how 'Once everything's mapped out on pages – music, story – then we come into the studio and we begin working quite spontaneously on the dance, in the moment, making wonderful little discoveries here and there. Mistakes happen and sometimes those mistakes are great'. And Wayne McGregor often takes his inspiration from the 'physical signatures' of his dancers, describing how 'the point for me of making a piece is to find something out that's new for me with those dancers… [in the studio] I'm not rehearsing, I'm really making'.
Today's ballet audiences are privileged to have frequent access to the rehearsal room through a wealth of online resources and insight events. We can now observe first-hand the kind of experimentation and collaboration that allowed choreographers such as Balanchine and Robbins to produce some of their greatest works, and which continues to inspire dance-makers and contribute to the ever-ongoing evolution of ballet.
The Royal Ballet's mixed programme of Serenade, Sweet Violets and DGV: Danse à grande vitesse runs from 14 to 26 May 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>
Soprano Elizabeth Watts is the focus of a specially-commissioned film following her through the process of learning, rehearsing and performing the role of Zerlina in Kasper Holten's Royal Opera production of Don Giovanni.
The film, originally shown as part of Inside Opera LIVE, offers a unique behind-the-scenes glimpse at what it takes to learn a new role and achieve the high standards required of a professional opera singer.
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Former Royal Ballet Principal Jonathan Cope recently coached The Royal Ballet's Nicol Edmonds through a section from George Balanchine's Apollo.
The session was watched by a live ROH Insights audience.
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Former Director of The Royal Ballet Anthony Dowell recently coached The Royal Ballet's Yuhui Choe and Benjamin Ella through a pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty.
The session was watched by a live ROH Insights audience.
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The General Rehearsal for The Winter's Tale at 12.30pm on 10 April will now be closed.
Due to the scale and complexity of the new production, the amount of rehearsal time available, and the added pressure of a performance in front of a full house, the creative team have opted for a closed rehearsal to ensure the best possible result for an important, large-scale new production.
Tickets for General Rehearsals are only available to Friends of Covent Garden.
If you hold a ticket for this event you will automatically receive a refund – there is no need to contact the Royal Opera House box office.
The Winter's Tale runs from 10 April – 8 May 2014. Tickets are still available. The performance on 28 April will be relayed live to cinemas around the world. Find your nearest cinema and sign up to our mailing list.
The production is a co-production with the National Ballet of Canada. It is generously supported by The Monument Trust with additional philanthropic support from Mrs Susan A Olde OBE, Celia Blakey, Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman, Simon & Virginia Robertson, The Taylor Family Foundation, Lady Ashcroft, Mr and Mrs Edward Atkin CBE, the Metherell Family, Richard and Delia Baker, Kenneth and Susan Green, D W Hancock, Randa Khoury, Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson, Doug and Ceri King, Gail and Gerald Ronson through The Gerald Ronson Foundation, Victoria Sharp, John and Susan Burns, The Winter's Tale Production Syndicate and an anonymous donor.]]>
With not long to go until the opening night of Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale on 10 April, The Royal Ballet is putting the final touches to the Company's first new Shakespeare adaptation in almost 50 years.
Christopher has reunited the creative team that made Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with Bob Crowley designing and Joby Talbot composing another memorable score.
The production features two casts, each with six Principal roles.
Sarah Lamb, Lauren Cuthbertson and Edward Watson in rehearsal for The Winter's Tale © ROH/Johan Persson, 2014
Christopher Wheeldon and Zenaida Yanowsky in rehearsal for The Winter's Tale © ROH/Johan Persson, 2014
The Winter's Tale runs from 10 April - 8 May 2014. Tickets are still available.
The performance on 28 April will be relayed live to cinemas around the world. Find your nearest cinema and sign up to our mailing list.
The production is a co-production with the National Ballet of Canada. It is generously supported by the Monument Trust with additional philanthropic support from Mrs Susan A Olde OBE, Celia Blakey, Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman, Simon & Virginia Robertson, The Taylor Family Foundation, Lady Ashcroft, Mr and Mrs Edward Atkin CBE, the Metherell Family, Richard and Delia Baker, Kenneth and Susan Green, D W Hancock, Randa Khoury, Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson, Doug and Ceri King, Gail and Gerald Ronson through The Gerald Ronson Foundation, Victoria Sharp, John and Susan Burns, The Winter's Tale Production Syndicate and an anonymous donor
Star bass-baritone Bryn Terfel has recorded the voice of Méphistophélès for Matthew Herbert's The Crackle, a contemporary operatic adaptation of Faust that mixes live music with bespoke electronics.
Bryn Terfel and members of the creative team in a recording session for The Crackle © ROH / Lottie Butler 2014
Bryn Terfel and members of the creative team in a recording session for The Crackle © ROH / Lottie Butler 2014
Bryn, who is also performing the role of Méphistophélès on the main stage in Gounod'sFaust, attended a recording session with Matthew, conductor Tim Murray, assistant conductor Tim Burke, and tenor Andrew Dickinson last week. The recording of his voice will be sampled and played throughout the opera.
Matthew has chosen to explore the Faustian myth in the context of a technological revolution, and incorporates new digital technologies into the music, including a data-sharing app called Chirp
The Crackle is performed alongside Luke Bedford's Through His Teeth as part of Faustian Pack, a series that explores fascinating legend of Faust. Find out more from Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames.
The Crackle runs from 5-12 April 2014. Tickets are still available.
Through His Teeth runs from 3-11 April 2014. Tickets are available.
The production is staged with generous philanthropic support from The John S Cohen Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Boltini Trust and the RVW Trust, with Research and Development generously supported by PRS for Music Foundation.]]>
Royal Ballet First Soloist Bennet Gartside has directed a short film for Channel 4's Random Acts series.
The film, entitled Sarah, gives an insight into Principal Sarah Lamb's warm up and rehearsal process.
'I was approached by the BalletBoyz to shoot a film on Sarah', says Bennet. 'My inspiration really was how she works - she's so meticulous. Even though it seems perfect to most, in her head she's always fine tuning. It's such a private process until the dancer takes it to the stage.
'I'd very much love to do more short films, it's just finding the time.'
Bennet is not the first Royal Ballet dancer to be involved in the Random Acts series: Former First Artist Jonathan Watkins choreographed two films for the series - Bunker and Sofa - while BalletBoyz (AKA former Principals Michael Nunn and William Trevitt) have contributed a number of films to the series.
Watch Sarah at the Channel 4 website]]>
Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet Wayne McGregor recently coached Lauren Cuthbertson, Natalia Osipova, Eric Underwood and Edward Watson through a section of his new ballet Tetractys - The Art of Fugue.
The session was watched by a live ROH Insights audience.
Tetractys - The Art of Fugue runs until 15 February. Tickets are sold out though 67 day tickets will be released on the morning of each performance. Returns may also be available.
The production is staged with support from Outset and The Luxury Collection as well as generous philanthropic support from David Hancock, Linda and Philip Harley and two anonymous donors
The Royal Ballet's Giselle was screened live across the world on 27 January as part of our Live Cinema Season 2013/14. During the relay a series of backstage films were shown, featuring rehearsal footage and interviews with the cast and creative team. In case you missed them last night, or just want to find out more about Giselle, here they are again:
Corps de ballet rehearsals for Giselle
Follow the corps de ballet as they rehearse for Giselle with Ballet Mistress Samantha Raine. The corps play the Wilis - girls who've died of a broken heart. First Artist Nathalie Harrison and Annette Buvoli, the Company's youngest dancer at 18, explain the complexities and challenges of the scenes involving the corps.
The Romance of Giselle
Producer Peter Wright rehearses with Natalia Osipova and Carlos Acosta and discusses the story, the characters and legacy of the ballet.
A Giselle digital guide is available to buy containing specially selected films, articles and exclusives to bring you closer to the production. This performance of Giselle will be released on DVD in autumn 2014.
The next relay as part of the ROH Cinema Season will see The Royal Opera's Don Giovanni screened live around the world on 12 February 2014. Find your nearest cinema.
To see more films like this, subscribe to our YouTube channel:]]>
A tale of betrayal, enduring love and the supernatural, Giselle follows the story of a young peasant girl who falls in love with a villager, who later is revealed to be a nobleman in disguise.
Royal Ballet Principals Roberta Marquez and Steven McRae, who will perform the lead roles of Giselle and Count Albrecht on 18 and 30 January, have been in rehearsals with producer Peter Wright.
'The two leading roles are marvellous, especially the role of Giselle - every ballerina wants to do it', says Peter. 'In all the roles, you have to build up the characters and know how each relates to one another. It's not easy, and it takes a lot of thought and work, but The Royal Ballet are wonderful at that.'
The most influential of all Romantic ballets, Giselle was a huge success on its premiere in Paris in 1841, and has remained at the centre of classical repertory every since. Peter Wright's production for The Royal Ballet has received more than 550 performances since it had its premiere in 1985.
'Although I've been doing this ballet for years and years all over the world, I'm really quite excited about how it's developing again,' says Peter. 'I always like to get that feeling that it's happening for the first time, which can be difficult when the Company has done it for many years, but they have responded just wonderfully.'
The Royal Opera House has produced a Digital Guide to Giselle, which contains specially selected films, articles and exclusives, including a full-length interview with Peter Wright. Buy the Royal Opera House Digital Guide for £2.99.
Steven McRae was the subject of a recent Twitter Q&A, in which he answered questions about tap dancing, motor racing and future choreographic plans.
Giselle runs from 18 January-10 February 2014. A small number of tickets are still available. The ballet will be broadcast live to cinemas worldwide on 27 January 2014. Find your nearest cinema.
The production is staged with generous philanthropic support from Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet, Celia Blakey and the Jean Sainsbury Royal Opera House Fund.]]>
The process of getting an opera on to the stage is a lengthy one - operas generally take 2–5 years to gestate and write and we have a large number of projects under commission and in development at any one time.
The Royal Opera presents many new operas each year and so of course we are also very active in the development of that work through its many stages, the first of which is the research and development (or 'R&D') stage.
R&D can take many different forms – each project is different as each writing team has their own way of working; some artists just need a secluded bunker to write while other composers are keen for a long workshop process. Sometimes it's focused on learning about particular technology or instruments, sometimes it's about addressing specific dramaturgical questions or engaging with specific audiences. It's clear, though, that there is no formula – every opera is made differently. We try to shape the development process around the artists rather than proscribe how opera should be written. Case in point are some of the operas currently in development.
Workshops with young people recently helped director Katie Mitchell and composer Mark-Anthony Turnage understand how young people respond and listen to opera and music in advance of a new opera for young audiences; while Luke Bedford, David Harrower and Bijan Sheibani spent time together with a group of actors at the the Royal Opera House reading the latest draft of David's libretto for their new opera, Through His Teeth, which comes to the Linbury in April 2014.
Technology is increasingly used, for example in some invaluable studio sessions between video artist Tal Rosner and composer Chris Mayo, in which a lot of computers and projectors were used in the first exploratory stages of an opera closely integrating music and video technologies.
We also work closely with partners - Opera North's Noye's Fludde offered composer David Bruce a full orchestral workshop earlier in the year for his opera The Firework-Maker's Daughter, which played in the Linbury Studio Theatre April 2013, and together with both Aldeburgh Music and Opera North we are developing five operas that will have their premieres over the next three years.
Of course such work is closed to the public, as it's important we create a safe and private space for exploration and learning – but sometimes we find ways to show work-in-progress to an audience. It was a joy to see excerpts from Julian Joseph's new opera presented to a packed Linbury audience as part of Deloitte Ignite recently and increasingly we're seizing on opportunities for composers to talk about and share reflections on process. Last Season, Sound and Music lead a fantastic event for composers and writers here and and we are looking forward to other events like this in the future.
There are many ways of supporting the development of new work at ROH and seeing inside the journey of an opera from the first seed of an idea to the first performance. Email to find out more.
We're grateful to the PRS Foundation for supporting our new work development activity.
Stephen Langridge's new Royal Opera production of Richard Wagner's final opera Parsifal opens on 30 November. Before curtain up, we went into rehearsals for a glimpse of the new production.
Parsifal is based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval romance Parzifal. It tells the story of an innocent young man who arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail. As well as an inventive new staging designed by Alison Chitty, Covent Garden audiences will be treated to some of Wagner's most gorgeous music including Kundry's Act II seduction of Parsifal and a score inspired in part by church music. The production stars Simon O'Neill, Angela Denoke, René Pape, Gerald Finley and Willard White. All performances will be conducted by Antonio Pappano.
View rehearsal photos:
Parsifal runs from 30 November to 18 December 2013. Tickets are still available. It will be screened live in cinemas on 18 December. Find out full details of a screening near you.
Parsifal is staged with generous philanthropic support from The Metherell Family, Roland & Sophie Rudd, Dr and Mrs Michael West, Marina Hobson MBE, Ian and Helen Andrews, Peter and Fiona Espenhahn, Annie Frankel, Malcolm Herring, Dr L Mikheev and N Mikheev, Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson, The Wagner Circle and The Parsifal Production Syndicate and generously supported in memory of Simon Tullah.]]>
The Rite of Spring was the focus of a recent ROH Insight session with the original 'Chosen One' Monica Mason, Royal Ballet Artist Claudia Dean, and conductor Barry Wordsworth.
'Today we're more used to seeing contemporary dance so perhaps it doesn't look as odd now on classical dancers as it must have done but it's really not like anything else.' said former Director of The Royal Ballet Monica Mason as she rehearsed with Claudia.
The Rite of Spring is a ballet filled with discombobulating and revolutionary rhythms, intentionally incorporated in to the score by its composer Igor Stravinsky: 'He had bits of paper with 'two' and 'three' [written on them], so that the score would be completely without a pattern; he threw them up in the air, picked them up and wrote this piece in the order of the pieces that he picked up off the floor,' Royal Ballet Music Director Barry Wordsworth told the audience of a particular section examined at the Insight session, 'Suffice to say that this passage never gets any easier because he wrote it so that you couldn't predict where the twos and threes come...it's that which gives it the tension and excitement'
Watch our playlist of Rite of Spring films:
The Chroma/Human Seasons/Rite of Spring Mixed Programme runs from 9 – 23 November. Tickets are sold out, though returns may become available.]]>
Last night Stefan Herheim's new Royal Opera production of Les Vêpres siciliennes was screened live across the world as part of our Live Cinema Season 2013/14. As part of the screening a series of backstage films were shown, featuring rehearsal footage and interviews with the cast and creative team. In case you missed them last night, or just want to find out more about Les Vêpres siciliennes, here they are again.
Members of the cast and creative team introduce Les Vêpres siciliennes
Conductor Antonio Pappano, director Stefan Herheim, Erwin Schrott, Michael Volle, Lianna Haroutounian and Bryan Hymel introduce the music and characters in the opera. Featuring exclusive rehearsal footage, the film also looks at Stefan's artistic vision, resetting the action from the 1280s to the Paris Opéra of the 1850s.
The ballet in Les Vêpres siciliennes
The creative team opted to incorporate dance into all five acts of Les Vêpres siciliennes by incorporating dance into all the acts, rather than including a centrepiece ballet in the third act as originally intended by Verdi. Stefan Herheim, choreographer André de Jong and dancer Cherese Binedell reveal how they incorporated ballet into the production.
Read audience reactions to the live cinema screening.
Find out more details about the Live Cinema Season 2013/14. The next live screening will be The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker on 12 December]]>
Audiences will have another chance to see Phyllida Lloyd's Royal Opera production of Verdi's Macbeth when it is screened in UK cinemas on Monday 29 July.
The production stars Simon Keenlyside making his role debut in the lead part and Liudmyla Monastryrska as the murderous Lady Macbeth.
Simon Keenlyside as Macbeth and Liudmyla Monastyrska as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth © ROH / Clive Barda 2011
Simon Keenlyside as Macbeth and Liudmyla Monastyrska as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth © ROH / Clive Barda 2011
The story
When witches prophesize that Macbeth will become King of Scotland, he struggles with his conscience. The formidably ambitious Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband's uncertainty and pursues the kingship with murderous intent.
'There is this friction between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth,' says Simon Keenlyside when discussing the role of the ill-fated Macbeth, 'this grinding irritation between them grown into something a lot worse because Lady Macbeth is endlessly needling'.
Watch an interview with Simon and The Royal Opera's Director of Music Antonio Pappano:
Verdi and Shakespeare
Despite never having seen Macbeth on stage, Verdi carefully preserved the drama Shakespeare's original play and the opera was an instant success on its premiere in 1847. He subsequently made several revisions in 1865 after he had seen the play several times, creating a vivid adaptation that combines fantasy and politics.
A Shakespeare fanatic, Verdi drew inspiration from the great playwright throughout his career. Macbeth was the first of Verdi's three Shakespearian operas. It was followed by Otello and then Falstaff, the latter based on the character from The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV.
Find out more about the connection between Verdi and Shakespeare.
The music
'Verdi has captured the world of the Macbeth family in this music,' says Antonio Pappano. 'It's lurid, it's violent, it's extravagant and it's certainly dramatic.'
Watch a stage and orchestra rehearsal for Macbeth with Antonio Pappano:
Verdi's dramatic genius has been likened to that of Shakespeare himself; his expansive melodies, eerie silences and driving rhythms capture the powerful drama of Macbeth. He specified that the soprano in the role of Lady Macbeth should sing with 'hard, stifled and dark' tones in order to reflect 'something devilish' in her voice, prioritizing characterization and drama over beauty of tone.
Verdi was so focused on the drama of the piece that, on the opening night, he was still rehearsing the duet between the two leads, instructing them to sing more softly during the scene where they plot the murder of King Duncan.
Watch Jette Parker Young Artist Jihoon Kim rehearsing Banco's aris from Macbeth in a vocal masterclass with Antonio Pappano
Selected cinemas are also showing Macbeth on 30 and 31 July, and 12 August as well as 29 July. Find out full details of screenings.
The final Royal Opera House production screened as part of the Summer Cinema Season cinema will be The Royal Ballet's La fille mal gardée on 5 August.
Rehearsals are underway for Don Quixote, a new piece by Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta, inspired by Marius Petipa's original ballet. Based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes, the ballet follows the adventures of the bumbling knight Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza.
The new production, Carlos's first work for The Royal Ballet, will open the 2013/14 Season at The Royal Ballet with a gala performance on 30 September. It will also be screened live in cinemas on 16 October.
Carlos has been performing at Covent Garden as a Principal Guest Artist since 2003, and is already established as an exciting choreographer: his first work, Tocororo - A Cuban Tale, was a sell-out success when it had its premiere at Sadler's Wells in 2003.
Don Quixote, which will feature designs by Tim Hatley and lighting by Hugh Vanstone, promises to bring Spanish flair and colour to the main stage.
Don Quixote runs 24 November 2014–22 January 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production is generously supported by the Friends of Covent Garden.
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The Royal Ballet tours to Japan have always been legendary among the Company with lots of hard work and lots of adventure. This is my fourth tour to the land of the rising sun but it hits me every time I arrive in Tokyo that this is a city entirely different to home - weirdly wonderful with its pace, energy and spirit.
Following a short stint in Monaco, we arrived in Tokyo excited for the Company's first staging of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland outside Covent Garden. Because of this we've run through the production a number of times at the Tokyo Ballet's studios. Though we battle the initial jet lag hurdle on long haul tours, we always want to deliver fantastic performances, such is the incredible reception from the ballet-mad Japanese audiences.
Bunka Kaikan is a quirky venue with an underground backstage that makes you feel like you are heading down into an air raid shelter. A lovely tradition at this theatre is every performer writes their name on the concrete pillars and walls underground. It's a who's who's of the last 25 years in the dance world and everyone is distracted by reading and doodling on this wall of fame. Also by the stage, every company leaves a poster signed by every member. It's Japanese to honour past performers and performances in this way.
We find all the Alice props strategically squeezed into the stage side dock area. This is a much smaller stage than Covent Garden and the ballet involves many major scenery changes. The afternoon rehearsal is quite slow, despite the Japanese extras and crew being amazingly efficient. It's a big ballet to piece together and get looking slick. We don't quite complete the first run through before we break, but the second one (with orchestra) goes amazingly smoothly. As the ballet saying goes, 'never work with animals, props or children' this production has two of those three!
One of the highlights of the first few days was the Japanese children playing the hedgehogs in Alice, and stealing everyone's hearts. These adorable children are only six (we use ten-year-olds at home) and in the wings they impress us with their little ballet demonstrations.
Away from the rehearsal routine, it's important to recover and refresh ourselves from the long flight - sleep is a hot topic of conversation but some of the girls (myself included) attempt to stay awake and jolt ourselves into a new time-zone. Many of the dancers seek out massages or treatments to aid this and we're in the right place, as cheap, high-quality treatment is available all over the city, which has a wonderful combination of a strong work ethic and an understanding of the importance of relaxation.
Tokyo is a wonderful place to roam around and I've impressed myself with my memory of routes and places. On a break, a few of us went for a stroll in the tranquil gardens at the Nezu Institute of Fine Art. It's a place that I've been to on a number of visits here and, such is its beauty, I always make a point of visiting. UenoPark is another one of my favourites. In between a matinee and evening performance the Company decamps down the hill to gorge on the delicious gyoza and sushi as well as to shop for market gifts and treats.
Though the city is very different from London, there are some similarities (with a slight twist). This is most noticeable when travelling on Tokyo's bustling underground system - we spent a day travelling on the Chiyoda Line (which traverses a cross town District Line-esque route), and our commute to the theatre is on the Ginza Line (a loop that apes the Circle Line). We smile at these comparisons.
Find out more about The Royal Ballet's tour to Japan.]]>
Benjamin Britten's Gloriana starring Susan Bullock and Toby Spence will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 6.45pm this Saturday (29 June).
The story and its origins
The opera, which was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Queen in 1953, is based on Lytton Strachey's Elizabeth and Essex and depicts the public and private trials of Elizabeth I at the end of her reign. Find out more about the story with our Opera Essentials guide, and take a look at politically-themed operas.
Gloriana was written, like many of Britten's operas, in Aldeburgh. Watch Susan Bullock and Britten biographer John Bridcut on the coastal town that inspired Britten.
View rehearsal photos from the original 1953 production:
Joan Cross, Basil Coleman (producer) and Benjamin Britten during rehearsals for 'Gloriana' (1953) at Orme Square. ©1953 ROH / Roger Wood
Basil Coleman (producer), Benjamin Britten and Joan Cross during rehearsals for 'Gloriana' (1953) at Orme Square. ©1953 ROH / Roger Wood
Joan Cross, Basil Coleman (producer) and Benjamin Britten during rehearsals for 'Gloriana' (1953) at Orme Square. ©1953 ROH / Roger Wood
The opera is a famous example of depicting the monarchy on stage. Find out more about the history of royalty on stage, including a look at the historical role of the censor.
The staging and rehearsals
Richard Jones's production is set in 1953 and features a stage within a stage. Watch footage from rehearsals featuring conductor Paul Daniel working with the cast:
Review the show
Read audience reactions to the opening night and live cinema relay, and add your own review.
Gloriana runs until 6 July. Tickets are still available.
It will also be screened live in cinemas on 24 June, marking the close of the ROH live Cinema Season 2012/13. It will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 6.45pm on 29 June.
This production has been made possible thanks to the generous philanthropic support of the Britten-Pears Foundation, the Boltini Trust and Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson.]]>
Mara Galeazzi and Edward Watson, The Royal Ballet Principals fronting this year's Pointe Shoe Appeal, recently took time out of rehearsals to explain the importance of footwear in ballet.
'Our shoes are so important to us,' says Edward, ' You have to feel like you're in the right shoes - sometimes if I'm wearing the wrong shoes it's like I've got someone else's legs on - it's a really odd feeling!'
All the shoes worn by The Royal Ballet are handmade and many of the dancers have their shoes custom-made by one shoemaker throughout their career, such are the precise demands of the art form. Jane Latimer from the Pointe Shoes Room explains: 'Mara, until recently, has been completely reliant on Bob Martin who made her shoes from the moment she came into the Company. It was a terrible day when Bob retired because the dancers get very used to their particular maker'
That said, he did make a huge surplus for Mara and she will be dancing out her Royal Ballet career in his Innovation shoes. You can win one of the two pairs she wears in her final performance by making a donation, of any size, to the appeal.
Find out more about the Pointe Shoes Appeal and make a donation now]]>
The Royal Ballet's Mayerling will be screened live, for free, to BP Big Screens around the UK next Thursday (13 June).
The annual BP Big Screen events attract thousands, many of whom bring picnics to enjoy while they soak up the unique atmosphere.
A shocking true story
This summer, audiences will have the chance to see one of The Royal Ballet's signature works; a dark drama of political intrigue, twisted romance and morbid obsession. Kenneth MacMillan's ballet, set to a score by Franz Liszt, is based on the true story of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who entered into a suicide pact with his teenage lover Mary Vetsera. Find out more about the real-life events behind Mayerling.
The work featuring a number of real-life characters, from emperors and princes, to baronesses and mistresses. Read our essential guide to who's who.
Rehearsals and preparations
The cast for this relay will include Edward Watson and Mara Galeazzi, who are fronting this year's Pointe Shoe Appeal. The live relay of Mayerling will be Mara's final Covent Garden performance with the Company before her retirement at the end of the Season. The duo recently gave an insight into rehearsals for the work. Watch our Mayerling Masterclass rehearsal film.
The role of Crown Prince Rudolf is one of the hardest male roles in the repertory. Find out how Edward Watson prepares for the role.
Tell us what you think
On the day of performance, we'll be giving an exclusive look into preparations through our social media activity so be sure to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook before the big day. We'll be using the hashtag #BPbigscreens so tweet us your thoughts, as well as a picture of your picnic to be in for a chance of winning a picnic hamper.
Read audience thoughts about the production, and add your own.
Watch the trailer
Mayerling is staged with generous philanthropic support from Celia Blakey, Lady Ashcroft, John and Susan Burns and Gail and Gerald Ronson through the Gerald Ronson Foundation.]]>
La donna del lago runs until 11 June. Tickets at Covent Garden are no longer available though the performance on 27 May will be relayed live into cinemas around the world.
The production is sponsored by the Peter Moores Foundation and the Friends of Covent Garden with generous philanthropic support from Celia Blakey, Hélène and Jean Peters, Judith Portrait and Susan and John Singer. The Production Director generously supported by Hamish and Sophie Forsyth.]]>
Raven Girl, a dark fairytale produced in collaboration between Wayne McGregor, author/visual artist Audrey Niffenegger (Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry) and composer Gabriel Yared (The English Patient) premieres at the Royal Opera House later this month. The work is based upon Audrey's illustrated novella of the same name.
Before curtain up, Wayne and Audrey took part in an ROH Insights session featuring the ballet in rehearsal. Sarah Lamb and Eric Underwood worked with Wayne on a scene from Raven Girl. Following this, Wayne and Audrey spoke about their creative process and what it was like for Audrey to create a piece for the stage, as opposed to a novel or visual art work.
'I tried to make the characters a little more psychologically complex than you find in your average Grimm story,' said Audrey, 'I tried to make the characters bulletproof so the story could be pushed and pulled.'
Of Audrey's images for the book that has inspired the ballet, Wayne said: 'Audrey draws very physically. Her drawings have an implicit visual grammar and I found that extremely useful in translating those [illustrated] plates into dance'. As part of the session, Audrey explained the complex process of creating an aquatint, used by the artist and author to create the illustrations.
Wayne also spoke of the three stages intended for the Raven Girl project: a book which would have its own life, the stage version which would deviate in some ways from the book ('Some characters are absent. The bones of the story are there but we're telling it in a different way', noted Wayne), and a film version.
There's a lot that happens in the story. From a practical point of view, how is it that you tell the major story points? We want to make it like a piece of visual theatre; a series of visual images that stack up against each other. One of the things that Audrey spoke to me about early on was the anatomy of a fairytale; you don't have to do all the explanation.'
Watch highlights from the event:
Watch Audrey Niffenegger reading an extract from Raven Girl
Raven Girl will be performed in a Mixed Programme with George Balanchine's Symphony in C. The production opens on 24 May and runs until 8 June. Tickets are still available.
Generous philanthropic support has been provided for the production from The Taylor Family Foundation, Mr and Mrs Brian Capstick, David Hancock, Linda and Philip Harley, one anonymous donor and The New Ballet Works Syndicate.]]>
The Kingdom of the Shades, Act III of Petipa's La Bayadère, is one of the most celebrated moments in classical ballet. Mesmerizing and dream-like, the sequence involves the entire corps de ballet dancing across the stage in perfect unison. The dance, which reflects Solor's opium-fuelled hallucination, demands absolute synchronization and is one of the ultimate tests for the dancers. Ballet Mistress Samantha Raine is currently in the middle of rehearsals. We caught up with her to find out more.
Why is The Kingdom of the Shades so well known?
It's famous for the entrance of the 24 shades, where the girls perform a series of 39 arabesques. This is followed by a difficult adage sequence where they need to breathe and dance as one. It's beautiful when you see it and looks stunning when all of the girls appear from behind the cloth.
How do you go about preparing the corps de ballet for such a sequence?
We start by teaching each step with the music so that everyone knows exactly how it works musically: when you step, when you lift your leg to the arabesque, which way you look, which way your arm goes - all of the details. Then, the challenge is getting everyone in line.
At the start of the sequence, the dancers enter via a ramp. We can rehearse most things in the studios, but unfortunately there is no ramp to practice on. We will only have about three or four stage calls for La Bayadère, and the dancers will have to get used to balancing on the ramp, and to the lights shining in their eyes.
I think it is one of the hardest dances for the corps de ballet nerve-wise. There are lots of holds and arabesques, and you just have to be really calm. It's the most nervous you can get with that many people on stage because if one person puts their leg down or wobbles, your eye goes straight to that person. Also, you're in tutus so there's no hiding anything!
The girls are already thinking ahead, and lots of them are working hard in pilates classes to get extra strength in their ankles to prevent any wobbling. As a dancer, you know what's in the rep and it's up to you to be at your best.
I know from dancing the different roles that it was probably one of the scariest as a corps de ballet. However, it's very rewarding afterwards when you know everyone has danced as one and in a team.
How do the dancers keep time and achieve these perfectly straight lines and formations?
It's a case of watching each other to make sure you're in line. Your eyes have to go both ways – forwards and sideways – to check you are in line in both directions. It's just practice really. To help achieve the straight lines, there will always be markings on the stage - tape is used to mark a centre line and lines from the centre to the wing, and to achieve unison, it is largely musical. Perhaps most of all, you have to be watching all the time.
Choreographer Natalia Makarova said: 'In this ballet the corps de ballet is the leading role and each member of it should feel like a ballerina. Yet the corps must always work together as a unified whole, they must dance and breathe as one'. How do you achieve this delicate balance?
Everyone is working together and no one wants to let anyone else down, but you also need to feel special. If you feel you are just one of 24, it doesn't work because you'll never get the right atmosphere or the right mood. You always need to work thinking that you are the only person on stage.
La Bayadère runs from 5 April - 22 May. Tickets are still available.
Staged with generous philanthropic support from Lady Jarvis and the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund.
Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon recently gave an ROH Insights audience a taste of their two new works for The Royal Ballet, titled 24 Preludes and Aeternum respectively. The ballets will be performed alongside George Balanchine's Apollo as part of a Mixed Programme.
As well as rehearsing their works, the two choreographers were also interviewed and, as well as introducing their pieces, spoke about the pressures of choreographing for what Christopher called an increasingly 'hungry' audience. Alexei also spoke of his first experience of working with the Company: 'They are wonderful professionals, they know how to act, how to dance'. He also commented on his choreographic method and adapting his style to the company he is working with.
Alexei's piece is his debut work with the Company and the session saw him rehearsing 24 Preludes with Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson. The piece is set to Chopin's Preludes [Spotify] but the music will be performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - rather than by a pianist - when the ballet is fully staged. The choreographer told the audience at the Insight: 'Four couples will be dancing, each of them will have solos, duets, trios and quartets'.
Christopher's Aeternum was rehearsed with James Hay, Thiago Soares and Claire Calvert. The piece is set to Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem [Spotify] with the session focusing on a solo by James and a pas de deux for Thiago and Claire.
24 Preludes and Aeternum premiere as part of a Mixed Programme with George Balanchine's Apollo from 22 February - 14 March 2012. Find out more about ROH Insights.]]>
Metamorphosis Titian, a book chronicling the production of last year's collaboration of the same name between The Royal Ballet, and the National Gallery, is now available from the Royal Opera House Shop.
The book is published in both a limited edition and a standard edition and tells the story of the complex project from conception to stage and gallery. It features images from rehearsals, set creation and gallery installations, as well as dozens of unseen photographs of the performances themselves.
The three-ballet programme brought together seven choreographers - Kim Brandstrup, Wayne McGregor, Alastair Marriott, Christopher Wheeldon, Liam Scarlett, Will Tuckett and Jonathan Watkins - and three contemporary artists - Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger - to create works inspired by the paintings of 16th century Venetian artist Titian.
The limited edition version of the book is presented in a cloth bound case and includes three original, signed prints by the artists involved. 250 copies were published.
The standard hardcover edition is priced at £24.99.
View images from the book:
Marianela Nuñez and The Royal Ballet in Diana and Actaeon. Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. © ROH/Johan Persson, 2012.
Répétiteurs Jonathan Cope and Lesley Collier recently coached The Royal Ballet's Fumi Kaneko and Nehemiah Kish in the Sugar Plum Fairy pas de deux from The Nutcracker.
The session was watched by a live ROH Insights audience.
Nehemiah and Fumi will be performing in The Nutcracker on 15 January 2013. The production runs from 10 December 2012 - 16 January 2013. A limited number of day tickets will be available for each performance.]]>
Last week, before the curtain was raised for The Royal Ballet's evening show, for the first time in 122 years the Royal Opera House was filled with the grand sounds of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable.
The auditorium was not set up for a performance: the stage was hidden by an imposing iron safety curtain and the Royal Opera Chorus occupied the velvet seats of the stalls. Eight soloists sat comfortably in a line across a narrow section of stage, as relaxed as if they were at home with a cup of tea, and the orchestra in the pit below played in jeans and t-shirts rather than the customary black tie.
The Royal Opera Chorus, the Principal Artists and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House had gathered for the Robert le diable Sitzprobe. The Sitzprobe, translated literally as 'to sit and try out', is a non-staged music rehearsal that gives the conductor a chance to tweak the finer musical details. Concert Master Peter Manning describes it as 'when the chorus meets the complex tissue of sound that is the orchestra. It's when we join forces all together to create the show.'
Bryan Hymel, who is singing the lead role of Robert, explained that it's one of the favourite rehearsals for a lot of singers. 'It's a crucial step for us because it's a chance to break from the complications of being on stage, and to co-ordinate with the orchestra one section at a time.You get to sit there and concentrate on the music, which is what we spend months preparing for. '
With Laurent Pelly's new production of the French masterpiece opening on 6 December, rehearsals have been underway for some time now. The Sitzprobe we saw was the first of three and the music, already rehearsed separately by singers and orchestra to an impeccably high standard, sounded seamless. The power of the chorus was magnified in the otherwise empty auditorium and the soloists casually reeled off show-stealing arias, eliciting a professionally understated ripple of applause from the music staff. It also came as a surprise when the conductor's voice suddenly interrupted mid-melody to shout out bar numbers and instructions about nuances of tone and expression.
'Robert le diable demands a lot of resources and energy', says Bryan. 'You have to pace yourself through the evening so that you can still sing by the time you get to the end. It doesn't really get any easier towards the end, it just gets progressively more involved.'
Bryan recently sang the role of Enée (Aeneas) in Berlioz's epic Les Troyens, which is currently being screened in cinemas.
'It's been a very full year of big long French operas', he explained. 'Robert le diable is
a real challenge for me as my part is a good bit higher than in Les Troyens. The singing
is very virtuosic – bel canto-type singing – but also with very dramatic acting.'
Barbara Senator as Ascanius, Robert Lloyd as Priam, Sophia Mcgregor as Andromache, Sebastian Wright as Astanax, Pamela Helen Stephen as Hecuba and Anna Caterina Antonacci as Cassandra in Les Troyens © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Dido, Bryan Hymel as Aeneas and Barbara Senator as Ascanius in Les Troyens © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012
Barbara Senator as Ascanius, Ashley Holland as Panthus, Bryan Hymel as Aeneas and Fabio Capitanucci as Coroebus in Les Troyens © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012
Though a huge success when it had its premiere in Paris in 1831, Robert le diable hasn't been staged at Covent Garden since 1890. Bryan says, "It's not performed often because it's very hard to find four singers who can all sing the Principal roles and are available all at the same time."
Watch director Laurent Pelly discuss why he was drawn to this forgotten opera:
Robert le diable opens on 6 December and runs until 21 December. Tickets are still available.
The production is staged with generous philanthropic production support from Alfiya and Timur Kuanyshev and Michael Hartnall.
As part of the Autumn Season, The Royal Ballet are to perform for the first time choreographer and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise.
Staged alongside Wayne McGregor's Infra and Liam Scarlett's Viscera, the work is an abstract ballet to a score by Joby Talbot, with whom Christopher worked on the acclaimed Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland. Fool's Paradise contains a moving pas de deux, rehearsed in this clip by Principals Sarah Lamb and Federico Bonelli, which builds to a glittering arrangement for the whole ensemble as gold petals shower down onto the stage.
Last season we filmed a rehearsal of Christopher's ballet Polyphonia as part of Royal Ballet Live. Watch footage of Christopher rehearsing Polyphonia.
As well as Fool's Paradise and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a brand new work by Christopher will also be staged during the 2012/13 season, opening on 22 February 2013 alongside a new work from Alexei Ratmansky and George Balanchine's Apollo.
Fool's Paradise runs from 3 - 14 November as part of a mixed programme.]]>
Alastair Elliott as Bardolph, Ambrogio Maestri as Falstaff and Lukas Jakobski as Pistol in rehearsals for Falstaff © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2012
Ambrogio Maestri as Falstaff and Carlo Bosi as Dr Caius in rehearsals for Falstaff © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2012
Ahead of the premiere of Robert Carsen's new production of Falstaff, take a look backstage with this gallery of rehearsal photos. The Canadian-born director's take on Verdi's Shakespearean opera is set in the 1950s, during a period of huge social change in Britain.
Next week we'll publish an interview with the director in which he tells us about the inspiration for his production, as well as his personal feelings on the appeal of the piece.
This gallery follows our recent appetite-whetting gallery of prop cakes adorning Sir John Falstaff's banquet.
Falstaff opens on 15 May and will be shown on BP Summer Big Screens around the country on 30 May.]]>
Guest blogger John Osborn, who performed as Il Conte d'Almaviva in the Il barbiere di Siviglia General Rehearsal on Saturday 15 January, tells us first hand about the evening. Along with the rest of the cast, he bravely carried on with the show despite a jammed fire curtain blocking access to the majority of the stage!
Read John's account of the evening below:
As we were all very prepared to run the entire show this Saturday, I have to admit that it was quite a surprise to hear that the fire curtain wasn't working, so we'd either be singing it all in front of the curtain, or maybe there was a chance the technicians might get it to work and thus, we'd do the whole show.
Well, it turns out that we couldn't get the fire curtain up; so, we all decided to do what we could to tell the story, on the sly, trying to be as true to the staging as possible, despite the limited space. We were already in makeup and costume, ready to go on. So, the overture began, and we were all in accord that we would do our best out there, and have a good time doing it. Turns out that we were all extremely tested by the twist of events, and we definitely had to act with all of our wits with no set or furniture to use from the production.
I feel that on the whole, we were all quite inventive, sang well, and had an incredibly good time playing the situation. Rory, I'm sure, was also challenged with giving cues in different directions than we did in the staging rehearsals. We were all so pleased to get such a positive response from the audience, and we even heard from several that they really enjoyed the intimacy of the format, and that we all still told a great story and were highly entertaining at the same time. We hope and pray that everything goes well for the opening on Tuesday night. I am convinced however, that perhaps the format in which we presented the opera, was so good, that there may be a demand for such a show in the near future. Here's to live theatre!]]>
Have a look at some pictures of our much anticipated new production of Niobe, regina di Tebe – the rarely performed baroque opera, now on stage (until 3 October). Niobe by the Italian Agostino Steffani (1654–1728) had its premiere in Munich in 1688, and had not been performed for centuries until recently rediscovered by baroque specialist Thomas Hengelbrock - the conductor of the work for the Royal Opera. The ROH production is based on Hengelbrock's 2008 production of Niobe for the Schwetzingen Festival in Germany. It uses similar staging and costumes redesigned for the larger stage at Covent Garden. There are some ingenious theatrical effects: fire, smoke, magical illusions, and giant floating helium balloons, which conjure the fantastical world of the baroque stage.
French soprano Vèronique Gens stars in the title role of the haughty Queen of Thebes whose terrible pride is her downfall. The Polish male soprano Jacek Laszczkowski is Anfione, her husband. They are joined by three male counter tenors in the roles of Clearte, Anfione's advisor; Tiberino, a young prince; and Creonte, an invading prince who conquers Thebes with the aid of a wicked magician Polifernes. The opera ends in high tragedy as Niobe's children are all slain by the Gods for Niobe's hubris, and her husband Anfione commits suicide. Niobe is so grief stricken that she turns to stone. Her final aria as she slowly turns to a statue is one of the most moving and astonishing points in this forgotten masterpiece.
If you're interested to read more on Niobe, regina di tebe - head over to our Discover page.
You can also book tickets for the remaining performances here.


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