Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
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Place of Birth: London, England
Biography: The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House was founded in 1946 on the reopening of the Opera House after World War II. The Orchestra plays for nearly all performances given by The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet on the Main Stage of the Royal Opera House, under Music Directors Antonio Pappano (The Royal Opera) and Koen Kessels (The Royal Ballet). The Orchestra also gives occasional concerts, including a series of annual performances at the Royal Opera House with Pappano. The Orchestra has performed at worldwide venues including Birmingham Symphony Hall, Cadogan Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus and on tour with The Royal Opera in Japan.
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Royal Opera House: Il Trovatore
The first revival of David Bösch’s new production for The Royal Opera, with two casts including Mari...
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Royal Opera House: La Bohème
John Copley's enduring production of one of the most famously melodious and popular of all operas is...
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Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold
When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive ev...
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Corybantic Games
Christopher Wheeldon draws on ancient Greece and reflects on love in Bernstein’s Serenade, after Pla...
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The Winter's Tale
With atmospheric music by Joby Talbot and powerful designs by Bob Crowley, The Winter’s Tale is a ma...
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The Nutcracker
Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else i...
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Gounod: Romeo et Juliette
Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired sinc...
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Die Fledermaus
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
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Manon Lescaut
"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...
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Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's penultimate opera is based on a play by David Belasco set at the he...
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1984
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...
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Robert le Diable
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, December 2012. Daniel Oren conducting Royal Opera House Orch...
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Written On Skin
When Written on Skin had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducted by George Be...
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Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Staging directors Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser infuse German composer Engelbert Humperdinck's fa...
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Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro
David McVicar's spellbinding production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO is set in 1830s post-revolution France...
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Carmen in 3D
Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular produ...
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Carmen
Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and ...
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The Minotaur
This staging of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur features John Tomlinson, Johann Reuter, Chr...
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Royal Opera House: La Traviata
Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a s...
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Royal Opera House: Don Giovanni
The impulsive and charismatic Don Giovanni travels through Europe seducing women, accompanied by his...
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Puccini: Il Trittico
Il tabarro is a tale of jealousy and murder between Michele, his young wife Giorgetta and her lover ...
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Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives...
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Royal Opera House: The Queen of Spades
The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession...
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Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers w...
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
The Royal Opera, the Royal Ballet, and director-choreographer Wayne McGregor bring us an interpretat...
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Falstaff
The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not ...
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The Nutcracker
This historic performance from 1968 captures Rudolf Nureyev at the peak of his career. Nureyev's leg...
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Three Ballets by Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations/The Judas Tree/Concerto
"MacMillan's vision has been vital in shaping The Royal Ballet's style and repertory, and what bette...
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Stravinsky: The Firebird and Les Noces
London's Royal Ballet performs two of Igor Stravinsky's classic works in this pair of performances c...
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Massenet: Werther
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...
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Les Vêpres siciliennes
The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who ha...
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Don Carlo - ROH
Rolando Villazón Triumphantly Returns To The Stage As Don Carlo In The 2007/2008 Royal Opera House'S...
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Royal Opera House: I Due Foscari
In Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his fam...
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Royal Opera House: Fidelio
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
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Manon Lescaut
"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Ex...
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Royal Opera House: Tosca
The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Br...
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Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino
Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by C...
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Wagner : Parsifal
A young man ignorant of everything, including his own name, arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail...
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The Barber of Seville
23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly –...
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Les Troyens
After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty....
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MacBeth
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become...
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Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
Damiano Michieletto's production for The Royal Opera updates the works to southern Italy in the late...
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Lulu
New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17....
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La Traviata
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as ...
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The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downst...
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Swan Lake
Yolanda Sonnabend's Faberge'-inspired designs evoke a world of Imperial Russia in Anthony Dowell's a...
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The Nutcracker
This all-time ballet favourite, in which young Clara is swept into a fantasy adventure when one of h...
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The Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved of classical ballets, combining in a sing...
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Royal Opera House: Don Quixote
Don Quixote and his servant Sancho Panza set out to have a chivalrous adventure. They meet Kitri and...
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Giselle
Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet. Its title role, one of the most technically demanding...
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The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
The 2015 production of "The Nutcracker" by the Royal Ballet...
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The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with wh...
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Royal Opera House: Coppélia
A classic returns to the Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia–...
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Der Rosenkavalier
Live performance, new production season 1984-5. BBC 2 Television relay on 30 March 1985 of performan...
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Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A full-length ballet created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the Royal Ballet at the Royal...
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Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964
Maria Callas’ legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1962 and 1...
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Henze: Ondine (The Royal Ballet)
Miyako Yoshida dances the title role originally created for Margot Fonteyn in the hauntingly beautif...
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The Blu-ray Experience: Opera & Ballet
Including world-class artists such as Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jose Cura,...
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Flo...
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Don Giovanni
DON GIOVANNI is one of the timeless classics of all opera. Mozart’s music, and the words of his grea...
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Royal Opera House: Turandot
2013 revival of Andrei Serban's 1984 production. Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, September 2...
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Il Trovatore
José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's bl...
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The Magic Flute
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
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