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London’s Royal Opera House is changing its name and hunting for new commercial partners as it works to fill a multimillion pound funding gap. From now on, the institution will be known as the ...
The Royal Opera House is to change its name to put ballet on an even footing with opera, in a move that is “long overdue” according to bosses at Covent Garden. The organisation will be called ...
The Royal Opera House is to change the name of its company to the Royal Ballet and Opera, after research revealed most people had no idea that the ballet was staged there. While the name of the ...
Bill Cooper / Royal Opera House / ArenaPAL The old and the new. On the one hand you can see their production of Last Days, an opera based on the last days of Kurt Cobain (and a film of the same ...
By Rebecca Schmid For the next music director of the Royal Opera House, Jakub Hrusa, one main thing defines the theater’s activities: “Quality.” “It’s the quality of human relationships ...
The Royal Opera ©2024 Tristram Kenton I was disappointed ... Moths and beetles climb the walls of the opera house proscenium. The Witch’s house, usually a kind of elaborate peasant hut with ...
From 1875 to 2025, Georges Bizet's Carmen still proves ever-popular; Damiano Michieletto's production of Carmen has returned to The Royal Opera House, and, staying true to the original ...