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Several dancers wearing elaborate costumes dance close together with their arms raised. The image is artistically blurred to look like in motion.

  • Clore Studio

Insights: The Royal Ballet School – A Centenary Celebration

3 October 2026

In celebration of the Royal Ballet School's 100-year anniversary, join cast and creatives behind this event in discussion on the history and heritage of the school, its dancers and the future.

Four performers wearing black stand on stage with their backs to the audience. Large white numbers are brightly lit and projected directly onto the stage and performers. The numbers are layered on top of each other making it hard to read them properly.

  • Clore Studio

Insights: 4:48 Psychosis

7 October 2026

Join cast and creatives in conversation as Philip Venables's 4.48 Psychosis prepares to make its Linbury Theatre debut, with director Ted Huffman returning, alongside conductor Naomi Woo (Last Days).

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  • Main Stage

  • Ballet and dance

A Centenary Celebration

8–10 October 2026

Includes Young RBO prices

The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of the School – its illustrious history, luminous present and vibrant future. 

A male dancer wearing green tights and a brown shirt is holding a woman wearing a brown dress. She is leaning back with her leg outstretched across him, as he lunges near her.

  • Main Stage

  • Ballet and dance

Manon

13 October–25 November 2026

Includes Young RBO prices

A woman torn between luxury and love – Kenneth MacMillan’s devastating ballet of decadence and decay.

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Four performers wearing black stand on stage with their backs to the audience. Large white numbers are brightly lit and projected directly onto the stage and performers. The numbers are layered on top of each other making it hard to read them properly.

  • Linbury Theatre

  • Opera and music

4.48 Psychosis

17–25 October 2026

The operatic adaptation of Sarah Kane’s explosive and extraordinary play.

  • Royal Opera House

  • Workshops and activities

Family Sundays

18 October–29 November 2026

Discover opera, ballet and the Royal Opera House with fun-packed creative activities for all the family.

Two performers embrace passionately on a green-lit stage. Behind them are two other performers looking on. They are performing in The Royal Opera's production of Carmen.

  • Main Stage

  • Opera and music

Carmen

29 October–21 November 2026

Includes Young RBO prices

Be seduced by the untameable heroine of Bizet’s ever-popular opera.

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A group of women sit around holding their arms upwards placing one hand in front of the other. The image is black and white and artistic.

  • Linbury Theatre

  • Ballet and dance

Madam

3–4 November 2026

A celebration of the pioneering woman who set the standard for British ballet.

Three ballet dancers perform together wearing light coloured dresses in front of a blue backdrop on a stage.

  • Main Stage

  • Ballet and dance

Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan

9–28 November 2026

Includes Young RBO prices

Revel in the beauty of two 20th-century ballet masterpieces.

  • Linbury Theatre

  • Opera and music

Elaine Mitchener – LATE JOYS

9 November 2026

Elaine Mitchener brings together a creative troupe of performers, spanning voice, instrumentation and movement, to present a not-quite after-the-show for the curious and curiouser. Part of the Linbury's Dark Nights concert series.

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