Live from Covent Garden

While our wonderful building is closed to the public, we are bringing you three very special performances streamed live from the Royal Opera House as part of our #OurHouseToYourHouse series.

Live from Covent Garden will celebrate ballet and opera in programmes of dance and music, curated by artistic directors of the Royal Opera House: Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera, Oliver Mears, Director of Opera, and Kevin O’Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet.

These will be the first live performances at the Royal Opera House since we closed our doors on 17 March. Our first performance will be on Saturday 13 June, broadcast live at 7.30pm BST and will be free.

Programme for the performance

• Benjamin Britten: On this Island op.11 (1937, to five poems by W.H. Auden), performed by Louise Alder
• George Butterworth: Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (1911, to poems by A.E. Housman), performed by Toby Spence
• Ballet Interlude: New pas de deux, choreographed by Wayne McGregor to Richard Strauss Morgen! op.27 no.4 (1894, to the poem by John Henry Mackay). Louise Adler (soprano) and violinist (tbc). Performed by Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales
• Mark-Anthony Turnage: Three Songs (2000, to texts by Stevie Smith, Thomas Hardy and Walt Whitman), performed by Gerald Finley
• arr. Benjamin Britten: The Crocodile (1941, to a traditional text and melody), performed by Gerald Finley
• Gerald Finzi: Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun op.18 no.3 (1929, to a text by William Shakespeare), performed by Gerard Finley
• George Frideric Handel: ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ (from the opera Alcina, 1735, after a story from Orlando furioso), performed by Louise Alder
• Georges Bizet: ‘Au fond du temple saint’ (from the opera Les Pêcheurs de perles, 1863, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré), performed by Toby Spence and Gerard Finley

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