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The Royal Opera, under the direction of Antonio Pappano, is one of the world’s leading opera companies. Based in the iconic Covent Garden theatre, it is renowned for its outstanding performances of both traditional opera as well as commissioning new works by today’s leading opera composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Thomas Ades. Some of the most famous singers of all tim

e have performed with the Company including Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Jonas Kaufman, Rolando Villazón, Juan Diego Flórez, as well as the late Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland. The Royal Ballet, led by Director Kevin O’Hare, is Britain’s largest ballet company. The Company has a wide-ranging repertory showcasing the great classical ballets, heritage works from Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, as well as new works by the foremost choreographers of today. Access is a key issue for the Company and its work is seen not just at the Royal Opera House but via televised and cinematic performances, outdoor Big Screen performances, international touring and through the work of the Company’s Education Department.

05/07/2025

This way to Wonderland 🐇♥️

Today is Alice's Day, commemorating a sunny afternoon in July 1862 when Lewis Carroll first told his beloved children's story to Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat trip in Oxford.

We’re celebrating with a peek into the topsy-turvy world of Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where nothing stands still and everything delights.

Which curious character is your favourite? Let us know in the comments!👇

01/07/2025

A summer celebration 🌼

First performed on 1 July 1789, La Fille mal gardée has delighted audiences for over two centuries with its warmth, wit and irresistible charm.

In the Maypole Dance from Act I, The Royal Ballet transport audiences to the countryside with a ballet of pure sunshine.

🩰 La Fille mal gardée returns to our Main Stage on 18 October - general booking opens tomorrow: https://bit.ly/4jjIa75

A myth remade…Handel’s Semele returns to its Covent Garden home as a bold new production by The Royal Opera opens on our...
30/06/2025

A myth remade…

Handel’s Semele returns to its Covent Garden home as a bold new production by The Royal Opera opens on our Main Stage tonight.

Set in the decadent world of the wealthy and powerful, Oliver Mears’ darkly satirical retelling strips away the divine to reveal something far more human — a story of longing and dangerous ambition.

🎟️ See Semele on our Main Stage until 18 July: https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/semele-dates

📸 Pretty Yende as Semele
📸 Pretty Yende as Semele and Ben Bliss as Jupiter
📸 Pretty Yende as Semele and Brindley Sherratt as Cadmus/ Somnus
📸 Alice Coote as Juno
📸 Niamh O'Sullivan as Ino
📸 Pretty Yende as Semele
📸 Pretty Yende as Semele

Photos © Camilla Greenwell

Hedonism rules supreme…Rehearsals are underway for Semele, Handel’s opera of desire and destruction in a bold new stagin...
23/06/2025

Hedonism rules supreme…

Rehearsals are underway for Semele, Handel’s opera of desire and destruction in a bold new staging by Oliver Mears.

When Semele is taken into Jupiter’s lavish home as his mistress, she finds herself swept into a world of luxury and temptation. But with Jupiter’s wife plotting revenge, paradise soon begins to unravel.

🎟️ Semele runs from 30 June to 18 July: https://bit.ly/4jTLkPE

📸 Pretty Yende as Semele
📸 Brindley Sherratt as Cadmus/ Somnus
📸 Pretty Yende as Semele and Ben Bliss as Jupiter
📸 Carlo Vistoli as Athamas and Niamh O'Sullivan as Ino
📸 Niamh O'Sullivan as Ino
📸 Carlo Vistoli as Athamas, Niamh O'Sullivan as Ino, Brindley Sherratt as Cadmus/ Somnus and Pretty Yende as Semele
📸 Pretty Yende as Semele and Ben Bliss as Jupiter
📸 Pretty Yende as Semele and the chorus of The Royal Opera

Photos © 2025 Camila Greenwell

21/06/2025

Off with their heads 👑❤️

Bold, brilliant and completely unhinged, the Queen of Hearts commands the stage in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Whether in the courtroom or on the croquet lawn, her appearances bring chaos, comedy and a theatrical flair that’s impossible to ignore.

One of many colourful characters in this whimsical ballet, she’s a reminder that nothing in Wonderland is ever quite as it seems.

🩰 The Royal Ballet's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland continues on our Main Stage until 28 June.

🎥 Lauren Cuthbertson

A heroine like no other 🔥Bold, free-spirited and unafraid to live on her own terms, Carmen captivates everyone she meets...
18/06/2025

A heroine like no other 🔥

Bold, free-spirited and unafraid to live on her own terms, Carmen captivates everyone she meets. But when freedom meets obsession, desire turns dark and danger follows...

📸 Anna Goryachova as Carmen
📸 The cast of 'Carmen'
📸 Charles Castronovo as Don Jose
📸 Anna Goryachova as Carmen and Charles Castronovo as Don Jose
📸 Jamie Woollard as Zuniga
📸 The cast of 'Carmen'
📸 Christian Van Horn as Escamillo
📸 The cast of 'Carmen'
📸 Selene Zanetti as Micaëla

Bizet’s ever-popular opera Carmen is back on our Main Stage until 3 July: https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/carmen-2425-dates

Something special is coming...We're excited to announce that Angela Hartnett will be launching a brand-new restaurant an...
18/06/2025

Something special is coming...

We're excited to announce that Angela Hartnett will be launching a brand-new restaurant and terrace bar at the Royal Opera House.

Bringing a signature blend of sophisticated yet simple, Italian-inspired cooking to our Covent Garden home, the spaces will open in September 2025, offering an exceptional dining and drinking experience on the fifth floor.

Angela Hartnett said:

“Opening at the Royal Opera House – such an iconic London institution – is a real privilege. We’re creating something entirely new for the space: relaxed, with food that celebrates exceptional produce and simplicity. Most of all we want the restaurant and bar to be for everyone, not just for those attending a performance.”

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/4e8onGz

📸 Angela Hartnett © Harriet Langford

Let the madness begin! 🎩🐇From tap-dancing tea parties to a queen with a taste for chaos, nothing is quite as it seems in...
13/06/2025

Let the madness begin! 🎩🐇

From tap-dancing tea parties to a queen with a taste for chaos, nothing is quite as it seems in this bold reimagining of Lewis Carroll's classic story.

The Royal Ballet's production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is back on our Main Stage until 6 July.

📸 William Bracewell as The Knave of Hearts and Anna Rose O'Sullivan as Alice
📸 Anna Rose O'Sullivan as Alice
📸 William Bracewell as The Knave of Hearts
📸 Amelia Townsend as The Mad Hatter
📸 Luca Acri as The White Rabbit
📸 Mayara Magri as The Queen of Hearts

https://bit.ly/4jNcsPI

08/06/2025

True love or a life of luxury? 💔

Though Manon loves Des Grieux passionately, she is swayed by promises of splendour and riches, and tragedy soon unfolds in one of ballet's most devastating tales.

🎥 Sarah Lamb and Vadim Muntagirov perform a heartbreaking pas de deux in Act III of Kenneth MacMillan's masterpiece, Manon.

06/06/2025

Teatime takes a turn 🫖🎩

The Mad Hatter’s tap solo in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of the ballet’s most crowd-pleasing delights.

🎥 Steven McRae is a burst of rhythm and eccentric charm in the midst of Wonderland mayhem.

🎟️Alice's Adventures in Wonderland returns to our Main Stage from 13 June.

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The Royal Opera House is a global artistic force, housed in one of the UK’s most beautiful theatres. It is from our Covent Garden stages that The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House perform year round, reaching audiences across the UK and further afield.

Whether it’s through our international tours, our learning and participation work or our ROH Live Cinema screenings, we take the very best of opera and ballet across the country and to the world and, in doing so, attract the best talent the world has to offer.