programme autumn 2013 – spring 2014 from the royal opera house ...

Turandot Live - approx 3hrs17th September 2013, 7.15pmThe Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season getsoff to a dramatic start with the return of Puccini’smusically sublime final opera Turandot – a tale ofdisguised identities, riddles, ritual executionsand powerful, triumphant love. AndreiSerban’s production of this dark Orientalfairytale is truly spectacular.Giselle Live - approx 2hrs 30mins27th January 2014, 7.15pmGiselle remains one of the most popular Romantic ballets of all time.The story brings together an engaging mix of human passions, supernaturalforces, and the transcendent power of self-sacrificing love.Don Giovanni Live - approx 3hrs 40mins12th February 2014, 6.45pmMozart’s sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, andin this production Kasper Holten shifts the emphasis from Don Giovanni’ssex life into a darker place, showing Giovanni’s womanizing as an attempt tostave off his own mortality.Sleeping Beauty Live - approx 3hrs 10mins19th March 2014, 7.15pmFirst staged in St Petersburg in 1890, The Sleeping Beauty is the pinnacleof classical ballet: a perfect marriage of Petipa’s choreography andTchaikovsky’s music and a glorious challenge for every dancer on stage. It isalso The Royal Ballet’s signature work.Don Quixote Live - approx 3hrs16th October 2013, 7.15pmThe adventures of Cervantes’ bumbling knight havebeen the inspiration for many ballets, best-knownof which is the Don Quixote of Marius Petipa withmusic by Ludwig Minkus. All the elements of thegreat classical ballets are here: emotion, drama andvivid characters. Royal Ballet Principal Guest ArtistCarlos Acosta has danced the virtuoso role of Basiliomany times. So it is especially exciting that he iscreating this new production for The Royal Ballet.A Winter’s Tale Live - Running time TBC28th April 2014, 7.15pmThe story follows the destruction of marriage through consuming jealousy,the abandonment of a child, and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet throughremorse and regret – and after a statue comes miraculously to life – theending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation.Manon Lescaut Live - Running time TBC24th June 2014, 6.45pmThe exciting Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais sings the title role. Aconsummate Puccini soprano, Opolais caused a sensation as MadamaButterfly in 2011, and with Manon Lescaut, the bold but impressionableheroine, we will see a very different side of her character.Les Vêpres SiciliennesLive - approx 4hrs 45mins4th November 2013, 5.45pmThe Royal Opera presents Verdi’s grand operaLes Vepres siciliennes for the very first time – andin a major new production. The story is set toimpassioned and dramatic music, rich in showpiecearias and ensembles and with striking choruses,taking us over the threshold from the reality of theopera house into the dreamlike stories of the operasthey present.The NutcrackerThe Nutcracker Live - approx 2hrs 10mins12th December 2013, 7.15pmFrom the very first notes of Tchaikovsky’s overtureto The Nutcracker, a sense of mystery and magicpervades the theatre as Herr Drosselmeyer sets intrain the events that will see his beloved nephew,Hans Peter, freed from the enchantment of the evilMouse King by the resourceful Clara.Parsifal Live - approx 5hrs 30mins18th December 2013, 4.45pmA new production of Parsifal, Wagner’s huge,profound meditation on guilt, death and possibleredemption, is always a remarkable event.GiselleProductions feature atleast one interval.