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The Royal Opera’s The Cellist (world premiere)/Dances at a Gathering broadcast live in cinemas this February


The Cellist (world premiere)/Dances at a Gathering

The Royal Opera’s The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering will be broadcast live in cinemas on Tuesday 25 February with an encore screening on Sunday 1 March.

The Royal Ballet presents the world premiere of Cathy Marston's first work for the Company on the Main Stage alongside a revival of Jerome Robbins’s timeless classic of pure dance.

©2018 ROH.

©2018 ROH.

Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and is much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Royal Ballet Main Stage is the momentous life and career of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Jerome Robbins’s elegant and elegiac classic forms the second part of the programme. This exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to music by Chopin, is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention.


The 2020 Royal Opera House Cinema Season is as follows:

  • The Royal Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty

    • Live Thursday 16 January 2020, encore on Sunday 19 January 2020

  • The Royal Opera’s La bohème (co-production with Teatro Real, Madrid, and Lyric Opera of Chicago)

    • Live Wednesday 29 January 2020, encore on Sunday 2 February 2020

  • The Royal Ballet’s The Cellist (world premiere)/Dances at a Gathering

    • Live Tuesday 25 February 2020, encore on Sunday 1 March 2020

  • The Royal Opera’s Fidelio (new production)

    • Live Tuesday 17 March 2020, encore on Sunday 22 March 2020

  • The Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake

    • Live Wednesday 1 April 2020, encore on Sunday 5 April 2020

  • The Royal Opera’s Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (co-production with La Monnaie, Brussels, Opera Australia and Göteborg Opera)

    • Live Tuesday 21 April 2020, encore on Sunday 26 April 2020

  • The Royal Ballet’s The Dante Project (world premiere)

    • Live Thursday 28 May 2020, encore on Sunday 31 May 2020

  • The Royal Opera’s Elektra (new production)

    • Live Thursday 18 June 2020, encore on Sunday 21 June 2020


About the Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season

The Royal Opera House celebrates 11 years of live cinema broadcasts in 2019, leading the way in delivering world-class opera and ballet around the world. In the 2020 Cinema Season, our broadcasts will reach more than 1,600 cinemas in more than 53 countries worldwide.

The Royal Opera House has seen huge growth in the influence of independent cinemas in the UK, now collectively accounting for almost half of our network. In addition to being shown in 600 UK cinemas, our productions regularly broadcast to over 1,000 cinemas internationally through our partnership with Trafalgar Releasing.

Audiences are also able to access a vast array of live-streamed and on-demand content via the Royal Opera House’s official YouTube channel, which is the most subscribed YouTube channel of any arts organisation in the world.


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