Royal Opera House

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Innocence found in London

The Aix premiere made a lot of noise, since Innocence, Kaija Saariaho‘s new opera has been heard in Amsterdam and Helsinki. Before San Francisco where it is scheduled for June 2024, Simon Stone’s production will be performed at Covent Garden at the Royal Opera House in London from April 17 to May 4, 2023 under […]

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The Barber of Bow Street

In London, Sweeney Todd is a well-known barber on Fleet Street and yet it is the Barbiere di Siviglia that is most often visited. In Bow Street, at the Royal Opera House, from 2 February to 6 March 2023, Andrzej Filończyk performs as Rossini’s hero accomplice Count Almaviva, the great Rossinian tenor Lawrence Brownlee, who […]

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Habemus novum Pappano

London’s Royal Opera House has announced the name of Antonio Pappano’s successor as Music Director of the great English institution, who will take up his post in 2025. He is the excellent Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, 41, currently Principal Conductor of the Bamberger Symphoniker, Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and of the […]

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Britten’s Billy Budd at the Royal Opera House in London

A masterpiece: The Royal Opera House of Covent Garden in London performs Deborah Warner’s production of Britten’s Billy Budd. This production premiered at Madrid’s Teatro Real has received an unanimous praise from the press as the most perfect success of the season. The same outstanding cast iso on stage with brilliant Jacques Imbrailo, Toby Spence […]

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Salome at London’s Royal Opera House

At London’s Royal Opera House from 8–30 January 2018, the exceptional revival of the David McVicar’s production of Richard Strauss’s Salomé, the best ever seen on stage! starring Malin Byström as Salome.