Enjoy a celebration of opera live in your living room
The Royal Opera House says it is delighted to continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme of online broadcasts, musical masterclasses and cultural highlights, created for audiences across the globe.
On Saturday, it will stream the third in the series of three Live from Covent Garden concerts live via the ROH website from its world-famous Covent Garden home.
A celebration of especially curated ballet and opera, the Live from Covent Garden concerts are the first live performances from the Royal Opera House since the building closed its doors to the public on March 17.
Viewers can go behind the scenes as the ROH opens its theatre to a select group of musicians, artists and performers, direct from our house to your house.
The third concert is hosted by Katie Derham and The Royal Opera’s Music Director, Antonio Pappano, joined by soloists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
Singers from the ROH Jette Parker Young Artists programme, will present work from George Frideric Handel, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, George
Gershwin and more.
The Jette Parker Young Artists will include Andrés Presno, Filipe Manu, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Stephanie WakeEdwards, Patrick Milne and Edmund Whitehead, and Link Artist Blaise Malaba.
First Soloists of The Royal Ballet Fumi Kaneko and Reece
Clarke will perform the lyrical central pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto. Created in 1966, Concerto is set to Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto no.2 in F. MacMillan was inspired to choreograph the concerto’s slow movement after observing Royal Ballet dancer Lynn
Seymour warming up at the barre, resulting in a deeply romantic and atmospheric pas de deux.
This will be the first time that Kaneko and Clarke have performed this duet together. Royal Ballet pianist Kate Shipway together with soloists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera will accompany the dancers.
The concert will be available to view live and on demand for 14 days via the Royal Opera House website for £4.99 per household.
And for those who can’t wait, tomorrow night, the Royal Opera House will present a free online broadcast of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, from 7pm
The triptych of ballets takes inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves as well as her letters, essays and diaries.
The Royal Opera House’s Create and Learn series continues to offer free resources for families around the globe to explore the magical world of theatre from home. This week our virtual classroom invites children and young people to make their own Magic Flute.
For more details, visit the Royal Opera House’s website or follow #OurHouseToYourHouse on the Royal Opera House’s social media channels.