Royal Opera House

...Italian actor Franco Nero Lenny Henry was accompanied by his wife Dawn French to the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Royal Opera House, where he won the Best Newcomer prize for his lead role in Othello. The reception...

In this article: Polly Stenham, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Dawn French, Jerusalem, Evening Standard, Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Othello

...Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," "The Invention of Love" and "Rock 'n' Roll." This year the prize for best play was just presented at the Royal Opera House to "Jerusalem," a three-hour-plus black comedy by Jez Butterworth. It also won best actor for...

In this article: Oscars, Evening Standard, New Moon, Grammys, Jelly Roll Morton, Rock, Glee, Tax, Boeing-Boeing, and Olivier Award

...all one wants is food, quickly. Much to the relief of everyone who has suffered Searcy's over-priced and indifferent offerings, the Royal Opera House has just changed its caterers to the more imaginative Company of Cooks, who have done a...

In this article: Crisps, Sandwich, The National Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre, and London

...feature judged by blogger Miss Mussel, asks fans to summarize the plot of a slelected opera in one tweet. In August 2009, Britain's Royal Opera House began a Twitter opera experiment, inviting users to build upon one another's tweets to...

In this article: Twitter, Orfeo, Covent Garden, London, and Britain

...he's talking about: He's brought back arts organizations as diverse as the Kansas City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from the verge of disintegration. The author of "The Art of the...

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...prolifically throughout his life. He also designed a ballet, Daphnis et Chloe, for Frederick Ashton in 1951, and produced the scenery and costumes for Stravinsky's Apollo at the Royal Opera House in 1968. Of his many illustrations for the...

In this article: John Craxton, Lucian Freud, London, Graham Sutherland, Crete, Horizon, and Patrick Leigh Fermor

...the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She made her Royal Opera House debut at the Barbican as Princesse Eudoxie in a concert performance of Halevy 's La Juive, on September 19, 2006, conducted by Daniel Oren. She performed as Adina in L'elisir...

In this article: Nicole Cabell, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Andrew Davis, London, California, BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Competition, Santa Fe Opera, The Magic Flute, and BBC Symphony Orchestra

...appearances was across Europe in The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Sir Georg Solti. She has also given concerts in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and as part of The Proms in England, and abroad in Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Halle...

In this article: Europe, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Order of the British Empire, The Marriage of Figaro, John Tavener, English National Opera North, Georg Solti, and Elvis Costello

...of G�tterd�mmerung (10 May) with the Hall� may make local opera-lovers wonder if they really need to provide a second home for the Royal Opera House. On 11 April, harpsichordist Christophe Rousset directs Les Talens Lyriques in a rare...

In this article: London, Clare College, Cambridge, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Ex Cathedra, Royal Academy of Music, The Damnation of Faust, and Sakari Oramo

...in a teaching program for 7 to 12 year old children. In 1999 Gilmour conducted twelve performances of Rigoletto in London and a Gala Concert at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Since 2000, as Artistic Director of the Sofia Symphony...

In this article: Gian Carlo Menotti, Le Nozze di Figaro, Leonard Bernstein, London, Macbeth, Firebird, and Vienna Philharmonic