Press Releases: 2024/25

RBO SEASON 2024/25

Royal Ballet and Opera Season 2024/25

12 September 2024: Ballet and Opera Companies make history to celebrate Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
21 June 2024: The Royal Ballet and Opera announce the 2024/25 Cinema Season
11 June 2024: Rolex becomes first ever Principal Partner of The Royal Opera
4 June 2024: Applications open for Overture: the Royal Ballet and Opera's orchestra mentorship in collaboration with Black Lives in Music and National Open Youth Orchestra
30 April 2024: The Royal Ballet and Opera 2024/25 Season announcement

RBO Season 2023/24

17 May 2024: His Majesty the King attends Antonio Pappano gala performance

Ballet and dance

29 May 2025: The Royal Ballet celebrates youth dance talent with the Next Generation festival
17 April 2025: Musical theatre and ballet combine in Ballet to Broadway, a celebration of Christopher Wheeldon's choreographic versatility
25 March 2025: The Royal Ballet champions a global range of emerging choreographic talent with International Draft Works
10 March 2025: The Royal Ballet celebrates three of George Balanchine's most popular works in one programme
5 March 2025: Royal Ballet and Opera to host three international companies in a showcase of the best of contemporary dance
6 February 2025: The greatest love story ever told: Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet returns to The Royal Ballet
22 January 2025: Carlos Acosta's Acosta Danza returns to the Linbury Theatre with Folclor
16 January 2025: Crystal Pite's Light of Passage returns to The Royal Ballet
12 December 2024: The Royal Ballet promotes Melissa Hamilton to Principal Dancer
10 December 2024: Northern Ballet return to the Linbury Theatre with a triple bill of short works
9 December 2024: Intense love, longing and desire as The Royal Ballet's Onegin returns
26 November 2024: Osipova / Linbury
7 November 2024: Lost Dog present Ruination: an alternative Christmas show inspired by the myth of Medea
31 October 2024: Step into the magic of The Royal Ballet's Cinderella this Christmas
28 October 2024: The Royal Ballet presents the European premiere of Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM
3 October 2024: Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black returns to the Linbury Theatre with two thrilling new works
24 September 2024: The Royal Ballet presents Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets
17 September 2024: Royal Ballet Principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson becomes Principal Guest Artist
3 September 2024: The Royal Ballet's Joseph Sissens curates Legacy - a celebration of Black and Brown excellence in ballet
21 August 2024: The Royal Ballet appoints Stuart Cassidy as Répétiteur to the Principal Artists
31 July 2024: Fall into Wonderland with The Royal Ballet's magical production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
23 July 2024: A reimagined 'Wonderland': The Mad Hatter's Tea Party returns to the Linbury Theatre this autumn
28 June 2024: The Royal Ballet announces Company promotions, new joiners and leavers

Opera and Music

15 May 2025: Desire and destruction - Oliver Mears' darkly satirical new production of Semele receives its UK premiere
8 April 2025: Embrace the cabaret with David McVicar's production of Faust, returning to the stage this May
20 March 2025: Jette Parker Artists bring Telemann to Covent Garden for the first time with Pimpinone
19 March 2025: Barrie Kosky and Antonio Pappano return for the second installment of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle: Die Walküre
25 February 2025: Aigul Akhmetshina and Freddie De Tommaso star in The Royal Opera's Carmen
10 February 2025: Puccini's final opera Turandot returns to The Royal Opera this Spring
23 January 2025: Adele Thomas' 5-star production of Il trovatore returns to The Royal Opera
11 December 2024: The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera present Phaedra + Minotaur
10 December 2024: The Royal Opera presents the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Festen
26 November 2024: Acclaimed director Netia Jones appointed Associate Director of The Royal Opera
25 November 2024: Robert Carsen's 5* production of Aida returns to The Royal Opera
24 October 2024: Englebert Humperdinck's enchanting Hansel and Gretel returns to The Royal Opera at Christmas
21 October 2024: Principal Guest Conductor Designate Speranza Scappucci conducts La bohème in the centenary year of Puccini's death
18 September 2024: Eun Sun Kim makes her Royal Opera debut conducting Tosca
12 September 2024: Juan Diego Flórez leads stellar cast in Damiano Michieletto's new production of The Tales of Hoffmann
11 September 2024: Groundbreaking opera installation The Sound Voice Project to take up residency in the Linbury Theatre this November
29 August 2024: Two Leonard Bernstein operas rarely performed together to be staged by The Royal Opera for the first time in a new production of Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place
14 August 2024: Tobias Kratzer's production of Fidelio returns to The Royal Opera
30 July 2024: Director Ted Huffman makes Main Stage debut in The Royal Opera's new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
24 July 2024: Verdi's devastating tragedy La traviata returns to The Royal Opera
16 July 2024: Mozart's witty The Marriage of Figaro opens The Royal Opera's 2024-25 Season this autumn
4 July 2024: Jette Parker Artists take to the stage in annual Summer Performance

RBO Stream and Cinema

29 May 2024: Royal Ballet and Opera announces 2024/25 Cinema Season

Learning & Participation

Events in London

22 November 2024: Royal Ballet and Opera unveil Christmas tree made of tutus
23 October 2024: Christmas with the Royal Ballet and Opera
8 October 2024: Offstage at the Royal Ballet and Opera: October Listings
20 March 2024: Professor Brian Cox and Daniel Harding bring a symphony of science to the Royal Opera House
11 October 2024: Royal Ballet and Opera Christmas Gift Guide
17 September 2024: New menu offers a taste of autumn in the heart of Covent Garden
13 August 2024: The Royal Ballet and Opera Christmas Gift Guide 2024
19 July 2024: Award-winning Chef brings one night only menu to the Royal Opera House

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