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Where the Ring begins 🌊 On this day in 1869, Das Rheingold received its world premiere in Munich, introducing audiences to Wagner’s monumental saga of gold, power, love and destruction. To mark the anniversary, we’re opening a remarkable record of the Ring’s return to Bayreuth in 1896–97. Preserved within are portraits of its cast and creatives, alongside photographs of the stage designs that once conjured Wagner’s mythic world. #TheRoyalOpera #DasRheingold #Wagner #RingCycle #RoyalBalletAndOpera
What happens to Alcina’s discarded lovers? 🐐 On her enchanted island, the sorceress transforms the men she tires of into animals. In Richard Jones’s production, that cruel magic takes shape through a surreal menagerie of animal-headed creatures. Our Props team reveals the craft behind these extraordinary creations and how Alcina’s sorcery is brought vividly to life on stage. 📅 See Alcina on our Main Stage from 15 September - book your tickets via the link in our bio. #TheRoyalOpera #Alcina #Handel #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
A world of feeling, conjured by Chopin’s most familiar melodies 🎹 Marianela Nuñez and Alexander Campbell dance the Pink and Brown pas de deux from Dances at a Gathering, Jerome Robbins’s ballet of fleeting encounters set to Chopin’s solo piano music. With no fixed story, the meaning of their meeting is left unspoken. For a few delicate minutes, Pink and Brown belong only to the music. 📅 See Dances at a Gathering on our Main Stage as part of Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan from 9 November. #TheRoyalBallet #DancesAtAGathering #JeromeRobbins #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Mozart’s most famous all-nighter? 🎼 According to legend, Mozart completed the overture to Don Giovanni overnight, with the ink still wet as the musicians prepared for the opera’s premiere. Moving from a dark opening into a rush of comic energy, the overture introduces both sides of the opera. Répétiteur Patrick Milne explores how Mozart allows that darkness to linger beneath the comedy, foreshadowing Don Giovanni’s final reckoning. 📅 See Don Giovanni on our Main Stage until 15 October. #TheRoyalOpera #DonGiovanni #Mozart #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Where every note seems to dance 🩰✨ To mark Frederick Ashton’s birthday, we’re sharing an excerpt from Symphonic Variations, his 1946 ballet for six dancers. Set to César Franck’s score, Symphonic Variations captures Ashton’s gift for allowing movement to bloom from the music. Each step reveals the musicality that made his choreography unmistakably his own. 📅 See Symphonic Variations on our Main Stage as part of Landmarks: Unmissable Ashton from 25 January. 🎥 @yasmine_naghdi and Yuhui Choe #TheRoyalBallet #SymphonicVariations #FrederickAshton #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
After hours with @yasmine_naghdi. The Royal Ballet Principal takes us beyond the curtain call, for a special edition of her post-performance routine with NoMad London. Neighbouring the Royal Opera House, lies an artful oasis. One of the hotel’s beautiful suites offers the perfect backdrop and resting place, to let the evening linger a little longer. In collaboration with our Official Hotel Partner NoMad London. #TheRoyalBallet #YasmineNaghdi #NoMadLondon #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Big dreams begin with play 💖 We’re delighted to announce a new partnership between @barbie and The Royal Ballet, bringing together two worlds where imagination and magic can come to life. In the studio, Royal Ballet Principal Fumi Kaneko invites a group of children to explore ballet through storytelling, movement and play. As they learn from Fumi and from one another, the studio becomes a space to build confidence, follow their imaginations and discover just how much is possible. 🩷 In partnership with @mattel and @barbie #TheRoyalBallet #Barbie #Mattel #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Where music and movement become one 🎻 After years of performing together, Steven McRae and Vasko Vassilev bring their creative partnership to the Linbury Theatre in a project that captures where they are as artists today. From a first act rooted in their own journeys to a new work inspired by Paganini, the evening celebrates the connections that allow artists to create without limits. Steven and Vasko reveal what draws them together and the joy of building something entirely their own. 📅 The McRae / Vassilev Project is on in the Linbury Theatre until 19 September. #TheRoyalBallet #Ballet #Dance #Paganini #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Love cannot be tamed 🖤 In the Habanera, Carmen declares that love answers to no one. Bizet gives her philosophy one of opera’s most recognisable melodies, its circling rhythm as elusive as Carmen herself. At once an invitation and a warning, the aria reveals Carmen on her own terms: she may choose love, but she will never surrender her freedom. ▶️ Our 2024 production of Carmen, starring Aigul Akhmetshina, is now available to watch on Royal Ballet and Opera Stream. 📅 Carmen returns to our Main Stage from 29 October. #TheRoyalOpera #Carmen #Bizet #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
The power of being unapologetic 🔥 Eight years after she last performed Donna Anna in this production of Don Giovanni, Rachel Willis-Sørensen returns to the role with a new perspective shaped by life experience. Rachel reflects on the way Donna Anna’s grief is repeatedly dismissed, why she no longer feels the need to make her likeable and the power she finds in following Mozart’s music with complete conviction. 📅 See Don Giovanni on our Main Stage from 10 September - 15 October. #TheRoyalOpera #DonGiovanni #Mozart #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Alcina in 60 seconds 🪄 On an enchanted island, the sorceress Alcina transforms the lovers she tires of into animals and objects. But when the fiancée of her latest conquest arrives to rescue him, Alcina’s carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Lisette Oropesa, who sings the title role, introduces the magic, romance and heartbreak of Handel’s opera. 📅 See Alcina on our Main Stage from 15 September. #TheRoyalOpera #Alcina #Handel #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
For a moment, midnight feels a world away 🪄 In Act II of Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Cinderella and the Prince find themselves alone together at the royal ball, caught in the wonder of a love only just beginning. Set to one of Prokofiev’s most beautiful melodies, the pas de deux seems to hold time still, even as the promise Cinderella made to the Fairy Godmother draws ever closer. ▶️ Our 2024 production of Cinderella, starring Fumi Kaneko and William Bracewell, is now available to watch on Royal Ballet and Opera Stream. #TheRoyalBallet #Cinderella #FrederickAshton #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
A love song like no other 💛 Papageno and Papagena finally find each other at the end of The Magic Flute, celebrating their reunion in Mozart’s joyful ‘Pa–pa–pa’ duet. Their voices tumble over one another in excitement, as the simple syllables of their names become a love song filled with dreams of the life they will share. 📅 The Magic Flute returns to our Main Stage from 13 December. 🎥 Christina Gansch and Roderick Williams #TheRoyalOpera #TheMagicFlute #Mozart #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
A little Bank Holiday cheer ☀️ James Hay takes centre stage as Widow Simone in the beloved Clog Dance from Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. The clogs may be heavy, but Ashton’s choreography is full of lightness, turning a village dance into one of the ballet’s most cherished comic moments. ️▶️ Our 2025 production of La Fille mal gardée is available to watch on Royal Ballet and Opera Stream. #TheRoyalBallet #LaFilleMalGardee #FrederickAshton #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Love, after everything 💔 By the final act of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, Manon and Des Grieux have lost everything but each other. Far from the glittering salons of Paris, their last pas de deux unfolds in the Louisiana wilderness as Manon’s life begins to fade. MacMillan’s choreography lays bare the love at the heart of the story, while Massenet’s music carries the duet towards its devastating final silence. 📅 Manon returns to our Main Stage from 13 October. 🎥 Natalia Osipova and Reece Clarke #TheRoyalBallet #Manon #KennethMacMillan #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
A farewell to every beautiful dream 💔 In the final act of La traviata, Violetta realises that Alfredo will return too late. Alone and gravely ill, she bids farewell to the happiness she once knew in ‘Addio del passato’. Verdi’s music rises from quiet reflection into a cry of anguish, as Ermonela Jaho pours all of Violetta’s love and despair into the aria’s soaring final moments. ▶️ Our 2019 production of La traviata is available to watch on Royal Ballet and Opera Stream. #TheRoyalOpera #LaTraviata #Verdi #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
A gathering painted in shades of Chopin 💜🎵 In Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering, ten dancers known only by the colours they wear meet, part and find one another again to a selection of Chopin’s piano works. With no fixed story, each encounter is free to hold its own meaning, moving between friendship, flirtation and quiet reflection. Together, they form a portrait of human connection shaped through dance and music. 📅 See Dances at a Gathering on our Main Stage as part of Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan from 9 November. 🎥 Francesca Hayward, Marianela Nuñez, and Fumi Kaneko #TheRoyalBallet #DancesAtAGathering #JeromeRobbins #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Leporello has been keeping count 📜 In Mozart’s famous Catalogue Aria, Leporello shows Donna Elvira the record of his master’s conquests, including an astonishing 1,003 women in Spain alone. Mozart gives the list an irresistible comic momentum, but beneath Leporello’s wit lies the darker truth of Don Giovanni’s world, where women are reduced to numbers in a catalogue. 📅 Don Giovanni returns to our Main Stage from 10 September. 🎥 Roberto Tagliavini #TheRoyalOpera #DonGiovanni #Mozart #Opera #RoyalBalletAndOpera
The magic of becoming Alcina once more ✨ Lisette Oropesa returns to the title role in Handel’s Alcina, an enchantress whose powers begin to falter when she finds herself falling in love. Lisette reflects on reprising the role and returning to Richard Jones’s Olivier Award-winning production, sharing what she is most looking forward to as Alcina’s enchanted world comes to life once more. 📅 Alcina opens on our Main Stage on 15 September - book your tickets via the link in our bio. #TheRoyalOpera #Alcina #LisetteOropesa #Handel #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Tchaikovsky, wrapped in pink tulle 🌸 @fumikaneko_ brings Princess Aurora to life in The Sleeping Beauty, capturing the lightness and joy of one of classical ballet’s most treasured roles. With every note, this moment glows with the delicacy and wonder of a fairytale brought to life. ▶️ Watch our 2020 production of The Sleeping Beauty on Royal Ballet and Opera Stream. #TheRoyalBallet #TheSleepingBeauty #Tchaikovsky #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
Love, in all its tenderness ❤️ In Act I of Manon, the Bedroom pas de deux captures Manon and Des Grieux in the first flush of love, wrapped up in a world that, for a moment, belongs only to them. Set to Massenet’s exquisite music, MacMillan’s choreography is filled with warmth and tenderness, capturing the intimacy of two people completely lost in one another. 🎟️ Manon returns to our Main Stage from 13 October - book your tickets via the link in our bio. 🎥 Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli #TheRoyalBallet #Manon #KennethMacMillan #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
A tribute to Isadora Duncan 🩰 Natalia Osipova performs Frederick Ashton’s Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, a work inspired by the artistry and spirit of the pioneering dancer who transformed ideas of movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Set to Brahms’ waltzes, Ashton’s solo was created for Lynn Seymour in 1975 and evokes Duncan’s distinctive freedom of movement. ▶️ This bespoke recording is now available to watch on Royal Ballet and Opera Stream. By arrangement with The Frederick Ashton Foundation. #TheRoyalBallet #NataliaOsipova #FrederickAshton #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera
150 years of Wagner’s Ring ⚔️ In August 1876, Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle was performed in full for the first time at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival, bringing together four operas and a vision decades in the making. 150 years later, we’re marking the anniversary with one of its most iconic musical moments: the exhilarating Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. #TheRoyalOpera #Wagner #RingCycle #DieWalküre #RoyalBalletAndOpera
The moon takes centre stage 🌒 As the moon moves across the sun in partial solar eclipse this evening, we return to one of opera’s most enchanting lunar moments: Rusalka’s Song to the Moon. In Dvořák’s luminous aria, the water spirit Rusalka entrusts the moon with a message for the human prince she loves, asking it to shine upon him and tell him she is waiting. 🎥 Asmik Grigorian ▶️ Our 2023 production of Rusalka is available to watch on Royal Ballet and Opera Stream. #Rusalka #SongToTheMoon #SolarEclipse #Opera #RoyalOpera

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