"wit, charm and elegance" are the words used to describe the work of Royal Ballet founding choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904-1988). English ballet, or rather style wouldn't exist without him, ...

Last summer, the Royal Ballet principal dancer suddenly fell ill. Tonight, she's back on the stage in a new production of ...

The Next Generation Festival at the Royal Opera House is an interesting prospect. It promises to bring together “junior companies and exceptional dance schools from the UK, across Europe and around ...

For nearly eight decades, London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has been home to The Royal Ballet. Next month, this world-renowned ballet company will trade the glittering gold and red ...

LONDON — In the summer of 1975, WWD reported that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made a rare appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House after the death of her shipping tycoon husband, Aristotle Onassis.

A production of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca by the Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO), provocatively scheduled by management for Tel Aviv in 2026, has been cancelled after widespread opposition from artists and ...

Chopiniana, his 1907 “white” ballet (known in the West as Les Sylphides) (pictured right, photo V Baranovsky), can be inert, shapeless, lifeless. Indeed, it all too frequently is. Saddled with an ...

The world of performing arts is in a completely different universe compared to the bits, bytes and IT infrastructure that Keith Nolan and the IT team at Royal Ballet and Opera spend their work time in ...

After years of walking past London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, having assumed it was an institution that only season-ticket holders, the very rich, the well-connected or corporate sponsors ...