London’s Royal Ballet and Opera in cinemas in 2024-25 – Seen and Heard Worldwide

Royal Ballet and Opera pronounces 2024/25 Cinema Season

Tickets on sale 11 June
11 productions screened in 1,500 cinemas throughout the globe
Bringing The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera to 50 international locations
Seven dwell broadcasts
Beloved classics together with Cinderella, The Nutcracker and The Marriage of Figaro
New opera productions: The Tales of Hoffmann and Die Walküre

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The Royal Ballet and Opera pronounces its 2024/25 Cinema Season, bringing the fun of world-class theatre to cinema screens proper across the globe. 

With 11 productions throughout each Firms, the programme contains beloved classics corresponding to Cinderella, The Nutcracker and The Marriage of Figaro in addition to two new opera productions: The Tales of Hoffmann and Die Walküre.

Providing audiences a view from the perfect seat in the home, the programme shares the enjoyment of dwell efficiency, and the fantastic thing about world class artwork with cinemagoers in additional than 1,500 cinemas and 50 international locations around the globe.

Director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare, stated: ‘This Season we’re thrilled to share three dynamic Firm classics with our cinema audiences: the riotously creative Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Christopher Wheeldon; Frederick Ashton’s magical fairytale Cinderella; and Kenneth MacMillan’s searing dramatic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Christopher Wheeldon’s Ballet to Broadway will probably be one other alternative to observe the flexibility and vitality of our dancers up shut, and for Christmas now we have a particular fortieth anniversary screening of The Nutcracker which is certain to thrill. We are able to’t wait to share these cinema moments with you.’

Director of The Royal Opera, Oliver Mears, stated:  ‘Opera is maybe essentially the most visceral and emotionally-charged artform, and I’m so glad that our cinema audiences will have the ability to expertise our work with us this Season, significantly with three dwell opera broadcasts. With a unprecedented group of forged and creatives behind every present, it’ll be a implausible Season on the massive display.’

2024/25 Cinema Season

The Marriage of Figaro | The Royal Opera
Reside in cinemas: Tuesday 10 September 2024
Encore: Sunday 15 September 2024

The Season begins in September with a dwell broadcast of Mozart’s comedian opera The Marriage of Figaro on Tuesday 10 September 2024. The forged, carried out by Julia Jones, is led by Luca Micheletti and Ying Fang as Figaro and Susanna with Huw Montague Rendall and Jacquelyn Stucker because the Depend and Countess Almaviva.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | The Royal Ballet
Reside in cinemas: Tuesday 15 October 2024
Encore: Sunday 20 October 2024

Christopher Wheeldon’s riotous adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland returns to excite cinema audiences on Tuesday 15 October 2024. First staged in 2011, this manufacturing bursting with color and creativeness showcases The Royal Ballet at its finest, combining Wheeldon’s creative choreography with fascinating music by Joby Talbot and stage designs by Bob Crowley.

Cinderella | The Royal Ballet
Reside in cinemas: Tuesday 10 December 2024
Encore: Sunday 15 December 2024

This Christmas, The Royal Ballet casts a spell on the 24/25 cinema season with two of its most magical choices: Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, and festive favorite The Nutcracker.

Founding Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton’s beautiful manufacturing of Cinderella charmed audiences in 2023 and returns as a part of the 24/25 cinema season, with a dwell broadcast on Tuesday 10 December 2024. A starry inventive workforce that includes set designer Tom Pye, costume designer Alexandra Byrne, lighting designer David Finn, video designer Finn Ross and illusions by Chris Fisher, mixed with Prokofiev’s ethereal rating, makes this an unmissable ballet for the festive season.

The Nutcracker | The Royal Ballet
In cinemas from: 17 December 2024

Peter Wright’s beloved manufacturing of The Nutcracker will enchant audiences throughout the nation from Tuesday 17 December 2024 with a particular screening of the ballet recorded in December 2023. A surprising forged that includes Royal Ballet Principals Anna Rose O’Sullivan because the Sugar Plum Fairy and Marcelino Sambè as her Prince, this irresistible mixture of Tchaikovsky’s rating and Julia Trevelyan Oman’s fascinating interval designs ensures its enduring standing as a balletic basic.

New Manufacturing: The Tales of Hoffmann | The Royal Opera
In cinemas: Wednesday 15 January 2025
Encore: Sunday 19 January 2025

Olivier award-winning director Damiano Michieletto returns to The Royal Opera for a brand new manufacturing of Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. Juan Diego Flórez sings the function of the poet E.T.A Hoffmann and Olga Pudova, Marina Costa-Jackson and Ermonela Jaho sing the roles of his unforgettable trio of lovers. Filmed dwell on stage in November 2024, the opera will probably be screened in cinemas on Wednesday 15 January 2025.

Swan Lake | The Royal Ballet
In cinemas: Thursday 27 February 2025
Encore: Sunday 2 March 2025

On Thursday 27 February 2025, cinema audiences can relive Liam Scarlett’s hauntingly lovely Swan Lake, a love letter to classicism and musicality, in a particular screening of the ballet filmed in April 2024. Royal Ballet Principals Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball star as Odette/Odile and Siegfried on this towering masterpiece within the classical ballet canon. Tchaikovsky’s immediately recognizable rating makes this an unmissable cinematic expertise for audiences around the globe.

Romeo and Juliet | The Royal Ballet
Reside in cinemas: Thursday 20 March 2025
Encore: Sunday 23 March 2025

Kenneth MacMillan’s devastating masterpiece Romeo and Juliet will probably be broadcast dwell to cinemas on Thursday 20 March 2025. That includes the enduring ‘Dance of the Knights’, Prokofiev’s passionate rating units the tone for Shakespeare’s most tragic story of forbidden love, portrayed via MacMillan’s heartbreakingly evocative choreography. This star-crossed manufacturing is one to not be missed.

Turandot | The Royal Opera
Reside in Cinemas: Tuesday 1 April 2025
Encore: Sunday 6 April 2025

On Tuesday 1 April 2025, Puccini’s remaining opera Turandot returns in a efficiency broadcast dwell from the Most important Stage. Drawing on Chinese language and Italian theatrical custom to evoke a richly imagined, legendary Peking, Andrei Şerban’s dazzling manufacturing is likely one of the most spectacular in The Royal Opera’s repertory. Rafael Payare conducts, Sondra Radvanovsky sings the title function.

New Manufacturing: Die Walküre | The Royal Opera
Reside in cinemas: Wednesday 14 Might 2025
Encore: Sunday 18 Might 2025

Following the glittering triumph of Das Rheingold, Barrie Kosky delves again into Wagner’s mythic universe with the second instalment of the Ring cycle, Die Walküre. With Antonio Pappano main from the rostrum, Christopher Maltman reprises the function of Wotan, alongside Elisabet Strid (Brünnhilde), Lise Davidsen (Sieglinde), and Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Siegmund).

Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works | The Royal Ballet
Reside in cinemas: Thursday 22 Might 2025
Encore: Sunday 25 Might 2025

4 of Christopher Wheeldon’s most distinctive works are dropped at the Most important Stage and broadcast dwell to cinemas on Thursday 22 Might 2025, bringing collectively distinctive up to date ballet with the vibrancy of musical theatre. Via Idiot’s Paradise / The Two of Us / Us / An American in Paris, cinema audiences can expertise Wheeldon’s outstanding choreographic breadth, in tales of tender devotion and blossoming romance.

Wolf Witch Big Fairy | Little Bulb with The Royal Opera
In chosen cinemas from 25 October 2024

Wolf Witch Big Fairy, a wild people opera of music, mischief and magic, is a collaboration between The Royal Opera and Little Bulb. The Olivier award-winning (Greatest Household Manufacturing) family-friendly present is designed with a youthful viewers in thoughts and options new twists and activates well-known fairy tales. Specifically captured for the massive display within the Linbury Theatre, this brand-new movie permits audiences to stand up near the characters and change into immersed within the vitality of the present. The Narrator and a forged of magical characters handle the digicam immediately, giving the display viewers an amazing introduction to the artwork type. Examine native cinemas for actual listings.

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