Harry Bicket on being a music director and evoking an 18th-century spirit in a 21st-century orchestra for "The Marriage of ...

One of the best things an orchestra can do is to add more space between players, but this is little more than a pipe dream for pits in buildings such as the Royal Opera House, a grade I-listed ...

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and its music director Antonio Pappano emerged from the pit and stole the limelight, says Nick Kimberley ...

For one production at the Royal Opera House the best seats cost £165. ... Now, a lucky few can stand in the orchestra pit for just £10. Members of the audience in the orchestra pit.

Review: Tosca, Royal Opera House This production of Puccini’s Tosca is a winner from the moment the Royal Opera’s ginormous red velvet curtains, still embroidered with ‘EIIR’, pull open.

Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre” opera is at the center of a legal judgment won by a viola player against the renowned Royal Opera House in London.

Established in 2023 by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, in collaboration with Black Lives in Music and the National Open Youth Orchestra, Overture aims to remove barriers to the orchestral ...

Antonio Pappano says the London house, where he is wrapping up 22 years as music director, “will always be my home.” By Rebecca Schmid After 22 years as the music director at the Royal Opera ...

The campaign came after the orchestra musicians at the Royal Opera House took a 10% pay cut to help the financial situation of the company during the pandemic when the Royal Opera House was closed.

But that’s how the San Francisco Opera wanted it to be –– unpretentious, relaxed, family-friendly. Music Director Eun Sun Kim had long wanted to get the San Francisco Opera Orchestra out of ...

For the next music director of the Royal Opera House, Jakub Hrusa, one main thing defines the theater’s activities: “Quality.” “It’s the quality of human relationships and sensitivity to ...

It’s part of Kalb’s “Beyond the Pit” series, where he hopes to bring opera to Detroit’s communities and highlight Detroit Opera Orchestra musicians outside the opera house.