Booking dates
All the booking dates below open at 10am.
- Premium 2 Friends: 9 September
- Premium 1 Friends: 10 September
- Supporting Friends: 12 September
- Friends+: 19 September
- Friends of Covent Garden – Ballet: 23 September
- Friends of Covent Garden – Opera: 24 September
- Advance Booking Packages (Friends Booking): 18 September
- Advance Booking Packages (General Booking): 14 October
- Group Booking: 7 October
- ROH Students: 20 October
- General Booking: 21 October
View the Royal Opera House 2014-15 Winter Season Seating Plan and Ticket Prices for Friends Priority Booking (PDF 2MB)
View the Royal Opera House 2014-15 Winter Season Seating Plan and Ticket Prices (PDF 1.7MB)
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Ballet and Dance
Don Quixote
25 November–22 January
By Carlos Acosta after Marius Petipa
Carlos Acosta's exuberant production of this classic tale of friendship, love and loyalty is bursting with joie de vivre.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
6 December 2014–16 January 2015; Live cinema relay on 16 December
Welcome Performance for Families 6 December
By Christopher Wheeldon
Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in Christopher Wheeldon’s thrillingly entertaining ballet.
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party NEW (Linbury Studio Theatre)
6 December 2014–3 January 2015
ZooNation
ZooNation burst onto the stage with their family Christmas show, a wonderfully wacky take on the madcap characters of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Onegin
24 January–27 February
By John Cranko
Music: Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
John Cranko’s interpretation of Pushkin’s verse-novel contains some of ballet’s most emotionally charged moments, set to stirring music by Tchaikovsky.
Swan Lake
10 February–9 April; Live cinema relay on 17 March
By Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Anthony Dowell's production of the greatest romantic ballet draws upon the opulence of 1890s Russia.
London International Mime Festival (Linbury Studio Theatre)
January
The acclaimed annual festival returns to the Linbury Studio Theatre.
Murmur / Inked (Linbury Studio Theatre)
23–4 January
By Aakash Odedra
Aakash Odedra dances an exhilarating mixed programme, created in collaboration with choreographers Lewis Major and Damien Jalet.
Draft Works (Linbury Studio Theatre)
24–26 February
By The Royal Ballet
Dancers from within the ranks of The Royal Ballet create and perform experimental new works.
Ballet Black (Linbury Studio Theatre)
10–14 February
The award-winning company presents a dynamic mixed programme from leading choreographers.
Opera and Music
Tristan und Isolde
5–21 December
Richard Wagner
Dir: Christof Loy
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Christof Loy brings intense insight to Wagner’s story of illicit love, told through music of thrilling power.
Un ballo in maschera NEW
18 December 2014–17 January 2015
Giuseppe Verdi
Dir: Katharina Thoma
Cond: Daniel Oren
Katharina Thoma directs a new production of Verdi's tragedy of illicit love, loyalty and betrayal.
Orfeo NEW (Roundhouse, Camden)
13–24 January 2015
Claudio Monteverdi
Dir: Michael Boyd / Trans: Don Paterson
Cond: Christian Curnyn
Listen to the Silence – A Journey with John Cage NEW (Linbury Studio Theatre)
30 January–1 February
John Cage
Dir: Wouter Van Looy / Letizia Renzini
Explore the mind-bending world of philosopher composer John Cage in Zonzo Compagnie's award-winning interactive family show.
L'Ormindo (Sam Wanamaker Theatre)
3 February-5 March 2015
Francesco Cavalli
Dir: Kasper Holten
Cond: Christian Curnyn
Experience Baroque music by candlelight in Kasper Holten’s innovative production of Cavalli’s comic opera L'Ormindo, in collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe.
Andrea Chénier NEW
20 January–6 February; Live cinema relay on 29 January
Umberto Giordano
Dir: David McVicar
Cond: Antonio Pappano
David McVicar directs a new production of Umberto Giordano's passionate drama of liberty and love in the French Revolution.
Der fliegende Holländer
5 –24 February; Live cinema relay on 24 February
Richard Wagner
Dir: Tim Albery
Cond: Andris Nelsons
Tim Albery's acclaimed production is a darkly insightful account of Wagner's early masterpiece, The Flying Dutchman.
Die Zauberflöte
23 February–11 March
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dir: David McVicar
Cond: Cornelius Meister
Comedy and philosophy unite in Mozart’s glorious The Magic Flute, brought enchantingly to life by David McVicar.