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Wagner rewilded: Das Rheingold, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed

The Spectator 21 Sep 2023
Grand Opera House is what it ... By the opening night of Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera (the first instalment of a new Ring cycle directed by Barrie Kosky) it felt as though a triumph had been pre-ordained, with Twitter (sorry, ‘X’) abuzz with excited leaks from the dress rehearsal.
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A vanity exercise: Carlos at 50, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed

The Spectator 10 Aug 2023
In 2015 Carlos Acosta announced his retirement from the Royal Ballet and the classical repertory ... The company, modelled in many respects on the Royal Ballet, looked in excellent shape throughout its ranks, even if there is no evidence of stand-out brilliance at the top level.
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Carlos at 50 at the Royal Opera House review: the knees may creak but his ...

London Evening Standard 27 Jul 2023
The Cuban ballet star is an undeniable force for good, and no one should begrudge him a sold-out birthday bash ... .
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Werther at the Royal Opera House review: superstar Jonas Kauffman is eclipsed

London Evening Standard 21 Jun 2023
The German tenor reverted to little more than a half-voice croon for much of the show ... .
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Werther at the Royal Opera House review: superstar Jonas Kaufmann is eclipsed

London Evening Standard 21 Jun 2023
The German tenor reverted to little more than a half-voice croon for much of the show ... .
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Same old, same old: Wayne McGregor's Untitled, 2023, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed

The Spectator 15 Jun 2023
The set by Carmen Herrera, subtly lit by Lucy Carter, suggests infinite space and distant horizons. The costumes by Burberry are streamlined and sexless ... He is hugely in demand globally but there’s a whiff of the same-old about Untitled ... Completing this triple bill, the finale to the Royal Ballet’s current London season, were two revivals.
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Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House review: leaves its singers stranded

London Evening Standard 06 Jun 2023
Adele Thomas’s new production tries hard not to be decorous, but doesn’t hang together ... .
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‘We can’t just be in our ivory tower’: the Italian conductor aiming to open up the Royal Opera House to everyone

The Observer 04 Jun 2023
On Sunday the Royal Opera House announced her appointment as its first principal guest conductor in more than a quarter of a century ... Scappucci will assume the role in September 2025, when the Royal Opera House’s incoming music director, the Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, will also start in his new position.
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Ballet princess! Kate takes Charlotte to watch Cinderella at the Royal Opera House ahead of ...

The Daily Mail 01 May 2023
The young royal, who will turn eight tomorrow, was at Cinderella with her mother Kate, 41, which was being performed at the Royal Opera House on Saturday afternoon ... Princess Charlotte, who turns 8 on Tuesday, celebrated with her pals at the weekend at the Royal Opera House where they watched a ballet production of Cinderella.
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Dramatically powerful and sonically beguiling: Innocence, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed

The Spectator 27 Apr 2023
Kaija Saariaho and Sofi Oksanen’s new opera Innocence was premièred at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2021 and comes to the Royal Opera in exactly the same production by Simon Stone, the Australian director responsible for that lockdown favourite The Dig as well as a shattering staging (in Munich, in 2019) of Korngold’s Die tote Stadt.
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Innocence at the Royal Opera House review: a devastating work about the aftershocks of a ...

London Evening Standard 18 Apr 2023
This extraordinarily powerful and disturbing opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho is making its UK debut ... .
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Cinderella at the Royal Opera House review: this lavishly redesigned show is magical, lovely and ...

London Evening Standard 28 Mar 2023
In Frederick Ashton’s take on the fairy tale, romance is tempered by comedy, elegance by eccentricity ... .
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You shall go to the ballet! Cinderella at the Royal Opera House – in pictures

The Guardian 24 Mar 2023
As the Royal Ballet celebrates the 75th anniversary of Frederick Ashton’s fairytale, we go behind the scenes and take a first look at the magical production ....

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