Season Guides
The Royal Opera, 2012-13 Season
Friday, 16 March 2012
New Royal Opera director Kasper Holten has announced a 2012-13 season in which big-name favourite operas and world opera stars are threaded through by 19th-century rarities and British operas. ROH... Read more... |
The Royal Ballet, 2012-13 Season
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
World premieres, new faces, lower ticket prices (and the first recycled opera production). The Royal Opera House announced a bullish attitude today as it enters the austerity post-Olympics period... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2012-13 Season
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Birmingham Royal Ballet has outlined its 2012-13 season for its home base in Birmingham, indicating a shrunken repertoire due to subsidy cuts, but with a new full-length family ballet by David... Read more... |
English National Ballet, 2012 Season
Sunday, 19 February 2012
English National Ballet's 2012 summer is studded with events to build new audiences, with a new version for children to introduce them to The Sleeping Beauty, collaborations with Tate... Read more... |
Regional Opera, 2012 Season
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Popular operatic love stories by Puccini, Wagner and Mozart dominate the regional scene in 2012, but key talents like producer Tim Albery in Leeds, Lothar Koenigs in Cardiff and David McVicar in... Read more... |
National Theatre, 2012 Season
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
The National Theatre's summer highlights include Simon Russell Beale directed by Nicholas Hytner in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Julie Walters as an ageing society dropout in the... Read more... |
Sadler's Wells Theatre, 2012 Season
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Who would imagine that the search for new dance audiences would result in a cascade of fairy tales and dramas at Sadler's Wells, the focus for hip eyes on culture? But it is so - The Sleeping... Read more... |
Barbican Centre, 2012 Season
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
London's Barbican Centre is 30 this year, and with a special Olympics subsidy boost as the world's eyes turn to the British capital this summer, it aims to be as lovely inside as it is famously... Read more... |
Christmas Dance on Cinema, TV & Radio
Monday, 12 December 2011
No more is dance the preserve of the few sitting in the theatre - larger companies are leaping hungrily for TV and now cinema screens, having found various ways around the longstanding obstacle of... Read more... |
European Festivals 2011 Round-Up
Monday, 23 May 2011
Be different - take a festival break in Europe instead of the UK, and catch a different landscape. While artists in both new music and classical are constantly circling the world in search of more... Read more... |
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