Joyce DiDonato prepares to be Cinderella
American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is relishing the chance to revisit the quirky heroine of Massenet's fairytale opera Cendrillon. She first sang the part in the same production in Santa Fe in 2006....
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Folklore, fairy tales and feminists: Cendrillon
Joyce DiDonato as Cendrillon, Alice Coote as Le Prince Charmant in Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011 Massenet's fairytale opera Cendrillon will be screened in cinemas this month, so we have called upon...
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Royal Ballet First Artist Claire Calvert on The Sleeping Beauty
Claire Calvert in Manon © Johan Persson/ROH 2011 Two years ago Claire Calvert was plucked from the corps de ballet and cast as the Lilac Fairy, a key character in one of the Royal Ballet's most iconic...
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Cinderella in cinemas
Joyce DiDonato as Cendrillon in The Royal Opera's Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011 Cinema-going opera fans, you shall go to the ball as Massenet's fairytale Cinderella hits cinemas this month as part...
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A guide to Sir Frederick Ashton
Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes and Frederick Ashton in rehearsal for Ondine © Roger Wood/ROH 1958 Frederick Ashton was inspired to dance at the age of 13, when he saw a performance by the legendary Anna...
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Alexei Ratmansky: Greatest hits
Alexei Ratmansky in rehearsal © ROH/Johan Persson, 2013 24 Preludes, part of the Royal Ballet’s current mixed programme that includes George Balanchine's Apollo and Christopher Wheeldon's Aeternum,...
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The Mariinsky in London: A look back at six decades of London performances
The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet (now Mariinsky Ballet)'s first British Performance at the Royal Opera House in June 1961 © ROH Collections/Roger Wood, 1961 The Mariinsky Ballet return this summer for...
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Listen: Purity of style and Swan Lake with a happy ending, what makes the...
Viktoria Tereshkina as Juliet and Vladimir Shklyarov as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet © Valentin Baranovsky This month, the Royal Opera House plays host to the Mariinsky Ballet, one of Russia’s top...
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Your Reaction: The Mariinsky Ballet's Cinderella 2014
Diana Vishneva and Vladimir Shklyarov in Cinderella © Photo by Valentin Baranovsky 2014 Shklyarov was the bee's knees. Funny, charming and the most exquisite footwork. He and Batoeva made tonight's...
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Frederick Ashton Mixed Programme Dance highlight: The Fred Step
Robert Helpmann and Frederick Ashton as the Stepsisters in Cinderella © Donald Southern/ROH 1948 ‘Arabesque, fondu, coupé, petit developpé, pas de bourée, pas de chat’. This sequence is the Fred Step –...
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