Press Releases: 2018/19
Press releases from the 2018/19 Season:
- 19 June 2019: Swan Lake: Reimagining a Classic – Oberon Books present an
exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at Liam Scarlett’s new production for The Royal Ballet - 18 June 2019: Miranda Richardson to play the Duchesse de Crakentorp in The Royal Opera’s La Fille du régiment
- 14 June 2019: Cast change announcement – Carmen, 16 and 20 July 2019
- 13 June 2019: Award-winning American tenor Bryan Hymel to perform a free lunchtime concert at the Royal Opera House
- 12 June 2019: Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazer schools visit Thameside Theatre for English Touring Opera show
- 12 June 2019: Homeless charity Streetwise Opera returns to the Royal Opera House for a seven-week residency exploring Bizet’s much-loved opera Carmen
- 12 June 2019: Nehemiah Kish to retire from The Royal Ballet
- 7 June 2019: Marcelino Sambé promoted to Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet
- 7 June 2019: The Royal Opera presents the 2019 Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance
- 6 June 2019: The Royal Ballet tours to Japan and Los Angeles this summer, presenting signature work from the Company’s repertory, a world premiere by Wayne McGregor and community engagement projects
- 6 June 2019: The Royal Opera tours to Japan in September 2019
- 6 June 2019: Celebrate Pride at the Royal Opera House in a family-friendly day of festival fun
- 5 June 2019: One month to go until the free live broadcast of Carmen on the BP Big Screens all over the UK
- 5 June 2019: The Young Talent Festival at the Royal Opera House: celebrating a wealth of emerging dance talent
- 3 June 2019: Cast change announcement – Andrea Chénier
- 3 June 2019: The Royal Opera House Design and Make winner receives prize at Covent Garden
- 3 June 2019: The Royal Opera House celebrates its volunteers in Thurrock
- 20 May 2019: Cas Public returns to the Linbury Theatre with a piece inspired by dancers hearing impairment
- 14 May 2019: The Royal Opera House announces 17 new productions for its 2019/20 Season
- 9 May 2019: ROH Late – Creativity after hours at the Royal Opera House
- 1 May 2019: Shakespeare-inspired Romeo and Juliet to be screened live in
cinemas throughout the UK - 11 April 2019: The Firebird / A Month in the Country / Symphony in C press release
- 3 April 2019: Medusa press release
- 29 March 2019: BP Big Screens: Free culture on your doorstep – from Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight – enjoy the best of British culture, free this summer
- 27 March 2019: Phaedra press release
- 18 March 2019: Faust cast amendment
- 18 March 2019: Jette Parker Young Artists 2019 – Press Release
- 12 March 2019: Lost Dog present the award-winning dance, theatre duet, Juliet & Romeo
- 8 March 2019: Three leading classical organizations announce new initiative to support the development of female conductors industry-wide
- 7 March 2019: International Draft Works: The Royal Ballet welcomes new choreographic talent from around the world
- 21 February 2019: Annette Page: Tribute to a Ballerina: A special celebration of the life of one of The Royal Ballet’s beloved Principal dancers
- 20 February 2019: National Dance Company Wales presents Awakening
- 19 February 2019: Verdi’s heart-wrenching opera La forza del destino broadcast live in UK cinemas on 2 April 2019
- 19 February 2019: Live at Lunch offers drop-in performances at the Royal Opera House
- 12 February 2019: Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazer schools make a carnival in a day with Kinetika
- 11 February 2019: Frankenstein – Press Release
- 7 February 2019: Handel’s Berenice returns to Covent Garden
- 6 February 2019: The Royal Ballet present Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth MacMillan’s dramatic masterpiece at the Royal Opera House
- 5 February 2019: Half-term fun for kids at the Royal Opera House Family Sunday
- 4 February 2019: Firstsite Gallery takes a trip offsite for Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazers
- 31 January 2019: The Royal Opera presents Gounod’s best-loved opera Faust
- 30 January 2019: Margot Fonteyn Centenary Celebrations – Press Release
- 22 January 2019: The Royal Ballet presents New Work New Music, a programme of six world premieres in the Linbury Theatre
- 22 January 2019: Thiago Soares becomes Royal Ballet guest Principal for the 2019/20 Season
- 16 January 2019: The Royal Ballet School presents a world premiere at the Royal Opera House: Liam Scarlett’s The Cunning Little Vixen
- 14 January 2019: The Royal Opera House Opens New Linbury Theatre
- 11 January 2019: Carlos Acosta's celebrated production of Don Quixote returns
- 4 January 2019: Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House: 2019 Orchestral Concert
- 19 December 2018: Enjoy the best culture London has to offer in 2019 at the Royal Opera House
- 12 December 2018: Thomas Jung appointed as Inaugural Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow
- 10 December 2018: Alessandra Ferri returns to the Royal Opera House with TRIO ConcertDance, the first dance performance to be staged in the newly refurbished Linbury Theatre
- 10 December 2018: Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus lends its voice to Covent Garden for Month of Sundays Festival
- 10 December 2018: Thurrock Music Services give Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazer schools something to sing about
- 22 November 2018: Antonio Pappano and Darcey Bussell among guest presenters at the new Royal Opera House Cinema Festival
- 21 November 2018: Asphodel Meadows and The Two Pigeons
- 14 November 2018: Cast amendment for Carmen, November and December 2018
- 14 November 2018: The Royal Opera presents Tchaikovsky's most ambitious opera, The Queen of Spades
- 14 November 2018: The Royal Ballet presents a programme of one-act ballets full of variety and seasonal celebrations
- 8 November 2018: Royal Ballet Principal Steven McRae cast in Universal Pictures and Working Title’s film adaptation of Cats
- 8 November 2018: Cast amendments announcement – Hansel and Gretel and Katya Kabanova
- 7 November 2018: The Royal Opera House presents a Cinema Festival this Christmas – kids go free!
- 5 November 2018: The Royal Opera House’s Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano extends tenure to 2023
- 1 November 2018: ROH Remembers: the Royal Opera House’s immersive arts festival marks the centenary of World War I
- 1 November 2018: Festive favourite The Nutcracker screened live in UK cinemas this December
- 29 October 2018: Cast Amendment for La traviata, January 2019
- 26 October 2018: Lyrici Arts storyteller visits Trailbazer school Warren Primary in Thurrock
- 24 October 2018: The Royal Opera House celebrates Christmas with Hansel and Gretel
- 24 October 2018: Teachers gather in Thurrock for Royal Opera House National Programmes event
- 22 October 2018: The Royal Ballet presents the World Premiere of The Unknown Soldier, a new ballet commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I
- 19 October 2018: Month of Sundays Festival for a fiver in November
- 19 October 2018: The Royal Ballet’s La Bayadère screened live to UK cinemas
- 17 October 2018: The Nutcracker returns to the Royal Opera House for Christmas 2018/19
- 16 October 2018: Commedia characters take over Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazer school, Ormiston Park Academy
- 16 October 2018: Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazer schools go to the ballet
- 15 October 2018: The Royal Opera presents the first revival of Bizet's Carmen
- 1 October 2018: Cast Amendment: Rachael Lloyd to sing Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung
- 25 September 2018: Natalia Makarova's production of La Bayadère returns to the Royal Opera House
- 19 September 2018: Open Up – The Royal Opera House launches a series of festivals, events and activities
- 19 September 2018: Open Up – The Royal Opera House: a new destination shop
- 19 September 2018: Open Up – The Royal Opera House: a new visitor destination opens
- 19 September 2018: Open Up – The Royal Opera House announces opening Season for the refurbished Linbury Theatre
- 19 September 2018: Open Up – The Royal Opera House lets everyone in on the act
- 17 September 2018: Celebrate World Ballet Day 2018
- 14 September 2018: For the first time in fifteen years, the Royal Opera House will take part in Open House London Weekend
- 14 September 2018: The Royal Ballet’s dark and dangerous Mayerling screened live to cinemas
- 6 September 2018: The Royal Opera House celebrates ten years of cinema broadcasts