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Robin Leggate's last role: retiring after 35 years at the ROH
Robin Leggate, one of the most seasoned and much-loved tenors in the Company, is shortly to retire, after some 35 years treading the boards. Robin joined Covent Garden in 1976 and was Company Principal...
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Accessible arias: Madama Butterfly's Un bel dì
Madama Butterfly © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011 This famous soprano aria opens Act II, after Butterfly, the young Japanese Geisha girl, has married her American admirer Pinkerton in Act I. It establishes that...
View ArticleDiscover Opera: The complete collection of films
Lighting Design Madama Butterfly We have just completed our latest insight film on the lighting design for the revival of The Royal Opera's Madama Butterfly. In this last video from our Discover Opera...
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What is it about Puccini?
The cast of Turandot © ROH/Tristram Kenton, 2013 Giacomo Puccini is one of the most popular opera composers of all time. Of his 12 operas, four – La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot – are...
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Voices Off: Famous examples of offstage voices in opera
Emily Magee and Michaela Schuster in Die Frau ohne Schatten, La Scala, Milan, 2013 © Monika Rittershaus/Teatro alla Scala Live opera is as much about enjoying the visual spectacle as listening. But...
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Spring Season 2014/15
Roberta Marquez as Lise and Steven McRae as Colas in La Fille Mal Gardee © Tristram Kenton/ROH 2010 Booking dates All the booking dates below open at 10am. Premium 2 Friends: 25 November 2014 Premium 1...
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Enter the ROH Grand Draw 2015 for a chance to win a luxury London hotel stay...
Corinthia Hotel London The Royal Opera House Grand Draw 2015 is now open. By entering the Grand Draw you will support the work of the Royal Opera House, a registered charity. This year, 25 fabulous...
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New Season of pre-performance talks announced for 2014/15 Season
The Royal Ballet's Swan Lake © ROH / Bill Cooper 2011 We are delighted to introduce a new series of pre-performance talks allowing you to gain a deeper insight into the production you’re about to see....
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Royal Opera 2014 Review: What were your highlights of the year?
Diana Damrau as Violetta Valery and Francesco Demuro as Alfredo in La traviata, The Royal Opera © ROH / Catherine Ashmore 2014 With 2014 drawing to a close, we want to know what your Royal Opera...
View ArticleWatch: Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier on Madama Butterfly – 'It's a...
'Madama Butterfly is a dark work, because not only is it the story of a young Japanese girl being abused, but it tells of a tragic situation that has been repeated so many times across the world',...
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Group Booking for Spring Season 2014/15 now open
Madama Butterfly © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011 Group Booking for the Spring Season 2014/15 is now open, two weeks ahead of General Booking on the 27 January. Group Booking offers savings of up to 40% on some...
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Watch: Noah Stewart sings 'L’Ultima canzone' by Tosti on Radio 3’s In Tune
Noah Stewart With performance runs currently happening and in rehearsal at English National Opera and the Royal Opera House, as well as a UK solo tour kicking off in April, Noah Stewart has a busy...
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When opera meets pop music
Carmine Rojas, David Bowie, Nile Rodgers, Aschaffenburg, 1983 by Mark Vitullo, Courtesy WikiCommons Opera and pop go way back. In much the same way as pop has been inspired by ballet, if you look...
View ArticleNew animations offer fresh take on classic operatic moments
A new series of Opera Shorts is underway, continuing The Royal Opera’s collaboration with Kingston University. Students from the undergraduate Illustration and Animation course were invited backstage...
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Opera Essentials: Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011 The Story Begins… The young Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San agrees to marry B.F. Pinkerton, a dashing US Navy lieutenant. She believes that it is a marriage of love,...
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Young Artist Profile: Nadezhda Karyazina - 'If your performance is from the...
Nadezhda Karyazina © Askonas Holt, 2014 ‘Madama Butterfly is a very special opera. It is so full of love, emotion and tragedy that, whenever I listen to or rehearse it, I always want to cry,’ says...
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A Dramatic Improvement: Puccini and the creation of Madama Butterfly
Kristine Opolais as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, The Royal Opera © ROH/Mike Hoban, 2011 Giacomo Puccini believed that God had commanded him to write ‘only for the theatre’, and looking at his...
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Madama Butterfly Musical Highlight: The Humming Chorus
Kristine Opolais as Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly © ROH/Mike Hoban, 2011 When Giacomo Puccini saw David Belasco’s play Madame Butterfly in London in 1900, he fell in love with the production. Belasco...
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Your Reaction: Madama Butterfly 2015
Kristine Opolais as Cio-Cio-San and Brian Jagde as Lieutenant Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly © ROH 2015. Photo by Bill Cooper @RoyalOperaHouse #ROHButterfly was without doubt the best #opera I have...
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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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