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The Aida Design Competition results
Aida Design Challengeby Royal Opera House Education Congratulations to all 16 winners of our Aida Design Challenge, and especial praise for Amber McCough of Wiltshire College and Philip Grundon of...
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Listen: David McVicar in Conversation
Director David McVicar was recently the subject of an In Conversation event, part of the ROH Insights series. The director is currently in rehearsal for his epic new production of Les Troyens while...
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Watch: Roberto Alagna on Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore
Roberto Alagna as Radames in Aida. © ROH/Bill Cooper 2011 Laurent Pelly’s production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore returns to Covent Garden on 13 November, starring Roberto Alagna in the role of...
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Operatic Pacifism
Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks with a guard and members of the Anglican clergy through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral. Official war photograph for the British government, 28 September 1941 by...
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The ROH during World War I: Suffragettes, star names and shut doors
Tanks taking part in a victory parade near Covent Garden to mark the end of World War I, 1918. Photo by Thomas Scales In 1914, as Europe slid inexorably towards war, the Royal Opera House's programme...
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Dialogues des Carmélites: Poulenc's homage to some of opera's most famous...
Sally Matthews in Dialogues des Carmélites, Theater an der Wien (2008) © Armin Bardel Francis Poulenc took the opportunity with the nearly all-female cast for his opera Dialogues des Carmélites to pay...
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Eastern Promises: The allure of the Orient in opera and ballet
Il Turco in Italia © ROH/Clive Barda 2010 ‘You’re a Turk… you’ve a hundred women around you: you buy them and you sell them when your passion dies’ – so says Fiorilla to her new suitor Selim in...
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Verdi unpacked: A guide to the master of Italian opera
Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) was one of the great masters of Italian opera. His works redefined the genre through their character-driven intensity and taut dramatic structures. The sheer...
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Remembrance of things past: Nostalgia in opera
Krassimira Stoyanova as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, The Royal Opera © ROH/Bill Cooper, 2013 Nostalgia – wistful memories of the past; a desire to return to a former, departed happy time. It’s an emotion...
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Verdi and the rise of the mezzo-soprano
Fiorenza Cossotto as Azucena in the Covent Garden Opera Company revival of Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden © 1973 Royal Opera House Verdi forged a new operatic tradition when he...
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