Like Water For Chocolate - The Royal Ballet
1 - 24 October 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
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1 - 24 October 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Tita grows up in the kitchen of the family cook, surrounded by its sights and smells. She falls in love with Pedro, a boy who lives nearby. They want to marry – but she is bound by an unquestioned family tradition: being the youngest daughter, she must remain unmarried to take care of her mother in old age. Caught between her yearning for Pedro and the formidable hand of Mama Elena, Tita’s emotions spill out in her cooking, often in ways unexpected and startling.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
8 October -5 November 2025
English National Opera, The London Coliseum
Follow the ill-fated story of weak-willed Don José whose infatuation with the flirtatious, free-spirited Carmen forces him out of the army and lands him in prison. When Carmen’s passion fades, danger lies ahead as she turns her affection to the mysterious bullfighter Escamillo. With love turning to obsession Don José starts to see red.
Website: https://www.eno.org
Box Office: 020 7845 9300
10 October - 3 November 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the enchanter Sarastro. He begins his quest, accompanied by the bird-catcher Papageno – but all is not as it seems…
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
18 October 2025 - 13 November 2025 and
23 May - 9 June 2026
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Lise is the only daughter of Widow Simone, the owner of a prosperous farm. She is in love with the young farmer Colas, but her mother has higher ambitions for her, hoping to marry her off to Alain, the son of the wealthy proprietor Thomas. Desperate to marry Colas rather than Alain, Lise contrives to outwit her mother’s plans.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
1 - 18 November 2025
English National Opera, The London Coliseum
Joseph De Rocher faces death by lethal injection for the brutal and senseless murder of two teenagers. While Joseph refuses to accept his guilt, we follow the religious and personal struggles of Sister Helen Prejean. She offers him spiritual guidance and witnesses the unbearable pain felt by the victim’s families, who’ve been left devastated by Joseph’s horrific and unforgivable crimes.
Website: https://www.eno.org
Box Office: 020 7845 9300
4 - 21 November 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Emilia Marty, a famous and mysterious opera singer, has lived for over 300 years thanks to an elixir of immortality. But when she becomes entangled in a battle to obtain a crucial document that will help her renew the life-extending formula, she begins to grapple with the emptiness and isolation her centuries-long existence has brought her.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
14 November - 2 December 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Revel in the poetry of movement with George Balanchine’s Serenade, the world premiere of a new ballet by Cathy Marston and Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, the first of the American choreographer’s works to be performed by The Royal Ballet.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
20 November -6 December 2025
English National Opera, London Coliseum
Finding The One isn’t easy. Especially when you’re tangled up in a tricky love quadrangle. Join our social butterfly Partenope and her three potential suitors – Arsace, Armindo and Eurimene – in this timeless tale where boys meet girl, girl falls for boy, and another ‘boy’ is really a girl looking for revenge on a boy… keeping up? Find out if love is on the cards and if honesty wins, in this complex game of romance, where not everything (or everyone) is as it seems.
website: https://www.eno.org
Box Office: 020 7845 9300.
22 November 2025 - 5 January 2026
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
The Nutcracker includes some of Tchaikovsky’s – and indeed, the classical ballet canon’s – most instantly recognizable tunes. Some familiar highlights include the Waltz of the Flowers, the Dance of the Mirlitons and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, with its signature sound of the twinkling celesta
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
4 December 2025 - 7 February 2026
English National Opera, The London Coliseum
Join Captain Corcoran and his daughter Josephine as she faces a battle between duty and love on the high seas. While her father makes plans for her to tie the knot with the suitably ranked First Lord of the Admiralty, Josephine has romantic ideas of her own. And after falling for lowly deckhand Ralph, the loved-up pair make plans to elope. That is, until a surprise revelation rocks the boat.
Website: https:// www.eno.org
Box Office: 020 7845 9300.
9 - 21 December 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera Covent Garden
Ariodante has it all. He is young, in love, and his fiancée, Ginevra, is first in line to the throne. But when a jealous rival conspires against them, Ginevra, falsely accused of infidelity, is stripped of her status, while Ariodante, believing himself betrayed, seeks oblivion. Can justice be restored?
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
15 December 2025 - 4 February 2026
Royal Ballet and Opera , Covent Garden
The beautiful but icy Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can correctly answer three riddles. Those who fail are brutally beheaded. But when an unknown prince arrives, the balance of power in Turandot’s court is forever shaken, as the mysterious stranger does what no other has been able to.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
8 January 2026 - 17 February 2026
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Heart-rending arias meet harsh realities in this captivating story. Experience the devastating beauty of Verdi’s music in some of opera’s most famous tunes.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
17 January 2026 - 13 February 2026
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s experimental ballet triptych inspired by the genre-defying works and writings of Virginia Woolf, set to an original score by Max Richter.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
29 January 2026 - 18 February 2026
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Haunted by guilt, Tsar Boris Godunov is losing his grip. Meanwhile, an ambitious young man spies an opportunity to steal the crown. What lengths will they both go to, in pursuit of power?
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
6 - 21 February 2026
English National Opera, The London Coliseum
Experience all the fun of the fair in Mozart’s Italian comedy masterpiece, where things aren’t quite what they seem for two loved-up couples, who find themselves taking the ultimate relationship test.
Website: https:// www.eno.org
Box Office: 020 7845 9300.
14 February 2026 - 20 March 2026
The Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
The world turns upside down for the peasant girl Giselle when she discovers her lover Albrecht is actually a nobleman promised to another. In despair, she kills herself. Her spirit joins the Wilis, the vengeful ghosts of women who have been jilted and die before their wedding day. with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost. Will he survive?
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
16 - 20 February 2026
The English National Opera, The London Coliseum
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny tells the story of three criminals on the run who find Mahagonny, a city of gold. In a place where absolutely anything goes, everything is permitted and the rules are, there are no rules. The question is, who will get out alive?
Website: https:// www.eno.org
Box Office: 020 7845 9300.
17 March 2026 - 6 April 2026
Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. His destiny soon brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.
30 March 2026 - 18 May 2026
The Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden
Crown Prince Rudolf is tormented by dark obsessions, fixated by the idea of his own death. He cannot find solace in friends and family, except for one person: the young and beautiful Baroness Mary Vetsera. She too, shares his morbid interests. Rudolf and Mary start meeting in secret. As fervent desire combines with a fascination for death, what begins as a clandestine love affair hurtles towards tragedy.
website: https://www.rbo.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 304 4000.