The Royal Ballet is coming to the North East in June – via big screens both indoors and out. The famous company has put together a triple bill of three short works from its repertoire to celebrate its ...

Last Updated on December 16, 2025 Puccini’s epic show Turandot returns to Covent Garden. 5.0 out of 5.0 stars Puccini’s ...

Anna Netrebko’s return to Covent Garden was always going to be contentious. The Russian soprano, 53, was pictured in 2014 bringing gifts to Russian-armed separatists in Crimea. Two years earlier, she ...

Anna Netrebko is back, briefly. The star soprano, whose links to Russia have made her a controversial booking in some ...

The Royal Opera House’s Turandot has now been running so long it feels less like a revival and more like a listed structure.

Andrei Serban’s 40-year-old production is confidently revived by Jack Furness, while the vocal richness of the Russian soprano as its eponymous heroine takes things to another level When the Royal ...

One of Handel ’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent Garden and has not been seen there since – until now. That is both a reflection of how fashionable the Baroque ...

Ukraine's ambassador to Britain makes an unprecedented intervention today to attack the 'betrayal' of allowing Russian soprano Anna Netrebko to perform in London. War hero Valerii Zaluzhnyi, known as ...

The Royal Opera’s new season began with more than the usual sense of occasion. Demonstrations outside greeted Anna Netrebko’s return, but inside the house the focus – mostly – stayed on Puccini. The ...

Joyce El-Khoury and Quinn Kelsey deliver plenty of vocal fireworks, while Speranza Scappucci drives the score with authority in a visually overstuffed revival of Verdi’s grand French opera at Covent ...

As several accounts testify, this opera was created specifically to be performed in 1735 at the new Covent Garden Theatre, which would eventually be replaced by the Royal Opera House in 1858. Handel ...