“Nutanix allows the IT teams to save money by hybridising some of the Royal Ballet and Opera’s more centralised IT ...

The Royal Academy indicated it could cut up to 60 jobs to face ... reduce our workforce has been put forward after careful consideration’, Mitchell told The Art Newspaper. A spokesperson said that ‘to ...

Maybe this is partly Verdi’s fault – his choruses really pack a punch and draw in any opera-goer, but for the love scenes to work, such as Leonora’s ‘D’amor sull’ali rosee’, requires a cast able to ...

Il trovatore is a director’s graveyard. The Royal Opera has had repeated failures with it over the years (how many remember the giant polystyrene rocks in Piero Faggioni’s shortlived production?), ...

An animated revival of Adele Thomas’s 2023 production, Il Trovatore strays from realism and instead focuses on a heavily symbolic reading of this dark and gritty opera. With macabre medieval ...

Up to 60 roles may be axed at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London as part of a cost-saving restructure “required to sustain its position in the future”, a spokesperson says, representing ...

The Royal Opera House in London is a iconic venue for opera and ballet, easily accessed via public transportation or car. The Royal Opera House opened in 1858. The building was previously destroyed ...

the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both prestigious and ...

Carlos Acosta’s Havana-based Acosta Danza returns to the Royal Opera House for this 10th anniversary ... Using Elizabet Cerviño’s art installation Vientos – two rows of gently rippling ...

Festen is playing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden until 27 February: rbo.org.uk or 020 7304 4000 ...

Last night was the opening of the second revival of Robert Carsen’s production of Verdi’s four-act opera Aida for the Royal Opera. This grandest of grand operas is set in ancient Egypt and ...

Il trovatore, Verdi's opera of obsession, superstition and ancient rivalry returns to the Main Stage this February, with a summer run in July. First staged in Covent Garden in 2023, Adele Thomas's ...