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Photography: Laura Stevens

Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian in the title role.

RUSALKA
22-23 Season

Photography: Sebastian Nevols

THE LIMIT
23-24 Season

Adapted with Sam Steiner from his award-winning play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, director Ed Madden and choreographer Kristen McNally reimagine this modern classic as a bold, playful and romantic work of dance-theatre with an original score by Isobel Waller-Bridge.

Fusing dialogue, dance and music in its depiction of a couple riding the waves of unimaginable change, The Limit is a love story and a vivid theatrical experiment.

Photography: Sebastian Nevols

JEPHTHA
23-24 Season

Jephtha's belief in God is unshakeable. But when he unwittingly vows to sacrifice his own daughter, he will test the bonds of faith – and family – to the limit.

This gripping new staging by Oliver Mears sheds powerful new light on a timeless biblical tale. Allan Clayton returns to Covent Garden in the title role, joined by a largely British cast featuring Alice Coote, Brindley Sherratt and Jennifer France, with musical direction from baroque specialist Laurence Cummings.

Photography: Sebastian Nevols

DIE WALKÜRE
24-25 Season

On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers together, unleashing a love with the power to end worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle ensues between their ruler Wotan and his rebellious daughter, Brünnhilde.

Photography: Sebastian Nevols

CARMEN
23-24 Season

In a remote Spanish town, the free-spirited Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware. But even she is unprepared for what happens when she decides to seduce police officer Don José.

In this searing new production directed by Damiano Michieletto, Carmen finds herself pushing against a stifling love, as well as the invisible but ever-present power of tradition.

Photography: Sebastian Nevols

CARMEN
23-24 Season

In a remote Spanish town, the free-spirited Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware. But even she is unprepared for what happens when she decides to seduce police officer Don José.

In this searing new production directed by Damiano Michieletto, Carmen finds herself pushing against a stifling love, as well as the invisible but ever-present power of tradition.

Photography: Sebastian Nevols

CINDERELLA
22-23 Season

After over a decade away from the Royal Opera House stage, Cinderella returned to the stage in this vivid new reimagining.
A creative team steeped in the magic of theatre, film, dance and opera brings new atmosphere to Cinderella’s ethereal world of fairy godmothers and pumpkin carriages, handsome princes and finding true love.

THEODORA
21-22 Season

Theodora is persecuted for her religious beliefs, but her virtue inspires the devotion of one of her oppressors. Joyce DiDonato and rising stars Julia Bullock and Jakub Józef Orliński lead an international cast of baroque specialists with some of Handel’s greatest choruses, matched in brilliance by arias and duets of profound dignity and humanity. Director Katie Mitchell views the story through the lens of contemporary religious terrorism, and gives a modern, feminist context to a work not heard at Covent Garden since 1750.

Photography: Camilla Greenwell

Photography: Sebastian Nevols

RUINATION
22/23 Season

Nothing says Christmas like a Greek tragedy – Lost Dog returns to the Royal Opera House with a new witty and irreverent take on the Greek myth of Medea as an alternative festive show.

Photography: Aidan Zamiri

LAST DAYS
22/23 Season

'Rejoice because there’s nothing left on a morrow-less day.'

Blake, a musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home. But he is haunted by objects, visitors and memories distracting him from his true purpose – self-destruction. Adapted from Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film based on the final days of Kurt Cobain, this new opera plunges into the torment that created a modern myth. Music by ROH/Guildhall School Composer-in-Residence Oliver Leith, libretto by Matt Copson, directed by Matt Copson and Anna Morrissey.