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From the mid-19th century, opera had been presented on the site of Covent Garden's Royal Opera House, at first by Michael Costa's Royal Italian Opera company. [2] After a fire, the new building opened in 1858 with The Royal English Opera company, which moved there from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. [3]
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London.The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site.The ROH is the main home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (now known collectively as the Royal Ballet and Opera).
Ashton created this work for himself and Margot Fonteyn. It was performed at the centennial gala of the Metropolitan Opera House, and at the Royal Opera House during a Gala Tribute to celebrate Ashton's 80th birthday Young Apollo: David Bintley: Gordon Crosse Benjamin Britten: Victor Pasmore: 17 November 1984
The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois. [1]
The House is a "fly on the wall" documentary television series in six episodes which showed various behind-the-scenes events at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.It was filmed by the BBC in 1995, and first broadcast on BBC2 in early 1996 to an audience of four million viewers.
The opera is based on the 1962 film of the same name by Luis Buñuel. [2] [3] [1] The opera, Adès' third, was a joint commission between the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Danish Opera. [4] The opera received its world premiere on 28 July 2016, at the Haus für Mozart, Salzburg.
1984 is an opera by the American conductor and composer Lorin Maazel, with a libretto by J. D. McClatchy and Thomas Meehan. The opera is based on George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It premiered on 3 May 2005 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in a production directed by Robert Lepage.
Originally in four acts, the opera received its premiere at the Royal Opera House (ROH), London, on 1 December 1951. [2] Britten later revised the work into a two-act opera, with a prologue and an epilogue. The revised version received its first performance at the ROH, Covent Garden, London, on 9 January 1964. [3]