A majestic new season of Palace Opera & Ballet.
With brand new productions from The Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet, and Glyndebourne, this season brings the grandeur of Europe’s finest stages to your local Palace Cinema. Experience the magnificence and get up close to your favourite operas and ballets like never before.
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Royal Opera
La donna del lago
Jul 19, 20, 21 & 24 - 2013gloriana
Royal Opera
Gloriana
Aug 2, 3, 4 & 7 - 2013
A majestic new season of Palace Opera & Ballet.
With brand new productions from The Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet, and Glyndebourne, this season brings the grandeur of Europe’s finest stages to your local Palace Cinema. Experience the magnificence and get up close to your favourite operas and ballets like never before.
Win a trip to Europe’s Finest Destinations with Peregrine
Purchase a ticket to any of the Palace Opera & Ballet productions, attach your ticket stub to the entry form and fill in your details on the entry form for your chance to win.
Discover an unforgettable backstage tour at the Royal Opera House in London, exquisite Italian Cities, ancient villages and Italy’s most spectacular coastline.
VALUED AT $14,450, THE PRIZE INCLUDES:
• Return airfares to London & Florence, accommodation and all transfers
• A nine day cultural tour of Florence to the Amalfi Coast
• Dinner and a show and a backstage tour of the Royal Opera House in London
The first stop will be a visit to London to take in dinner, a show and backstage tour at the Royal Opera House. Peregrine Adventures will then take you to some of Italy’s most celebrated cities including Florence and Naples, and many more on their nine-day cultural tour of Florence to Amalfi. With the experience and quality of Peregrine, travel from renaissance Florence into Umbria; the green heart of the country and one of Italy’s important gastronomic hubs. Awaiting discovery is the splendid university town of Perugia; the charming village of Spoleto, and the religious pilgrimage town of Assisi – home to famous Basilica of San Francis. A three night stay on the beautiful Amalfi Coast is the perfect end to an Italian sojourn.
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The Royal Opera
The Royal Opera, under the direction of Antonio Pappano, is one of the world’s leading opera companies. Based in the iconic Covent Garden theatre, it is renowned for its outstanding performances of both traditional opera as well as commissioning new works by today’s leading opera composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Thomas Ades. Some of the most famous singers of all time have performed with the Company including Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Jonas Kaufman, Rolando Villazón, Juan Diego Flórez, as well as the late Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland.
The Royal Ballet
Based at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden, The Royal Ballet, led by Director Dame Monica Mason, is Britain’s largest ballet company. The Company has a wide-ranging repertory showcasing the great classical ballets, heritage works from Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, as well as new works by the foremost choreographers of today.
GLYNDEBOURNE
Established in 1934, Glyndebourne is renowned for the quality of its opera productions and commitment to artistic excellence. Its orchestras (London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment) are world-class and the Glyndebourne Chorus is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent choruses in international opera.
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE
Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education.
Together, the Globe Theatre, Globe Exhibition & Tour and Globe Education seek to further the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance.
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The Cunning Little Vixen
Glyndebourne
Sep 14, 15, 16 & 19
Captured Live
Perhaps the only opera to be inspired by a newspaper cartoon strip, The Cunning Little Vixen features a cast of animal characters in a depiction of rural life that is rich in both humour and humanity. This new production of Janáček’s final opera is directed by Melly Still, who made her operatic directing debut at Glyndebourne in 2009.
Director: Melly Still
Cast: Emma Bell and Lucy Crowe
Approx Duration: 135 minutes
All's Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare's Globe
Sep 28,29,30, Oct 3
Captured Live
Olivier Award-winning actress Janie Dee (Me & Orson Welles) is a delight as the Countess of Roussillon in this uplifting romantic comedy. The orphaned heroine Helena (Ellie Piercey) will stop at nothing to win the proud young aristocrat Bertram (Sam Crane) who is forced to marry her but instantly abandons her. Sumptuous costumes, outstanding original music, and a fine ensemble of actors captured the spirit of Shakespeare’s complex Chekhovian comedy.
Director: John Dove
Cast: Janie Dee, Ellie Piercey, Sam Crane
Approx Duration: 137 minutes plus interval
Le nozze di Figaro
Glyndebourne
Oct 12, 13, 14 & 17
Captured Live
This new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro brings together two thrilling artistic talents in director Michael Grandage and Glyndebourne’s Music Director-in-waiting, Robin Ticciati. Rising British soprano Sally Matthews makes her Glyndebourne Festival debut as the Countess alongside Italian baritone Vito Priante in his debut as Figaro.
Director: Michael Grandage
Cast: Sally Matthews and Vito Priante
Approx Duration: 230 minutes
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Globe
Oct 19, 20, 21 & 24 (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide)
Oct 26, 27, 28 & 31 (Perth)
Captured Live
Shakespeare’s wittiest of comedies, pairs Olivier Award-winning actress Eve Best (The King’s Speech) and Charles Edwards (An Ideal Husband, Downton Abbey), as the sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick, and also features Joseph Marcell (Geoffrey in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) as Leonato. Directed by Jeremy Herrin, this fearless display of Shakespeare’s wit and wisdom, in which words become weapons, comes to sparkling life.
Director: Jeremy Herrin
Cast: Eve Best, Charles Edwards, Joseph Marcell
Approx Duration: 166 minutes plus interval
Opera On Ice
Sep 21, 22, 23 & 26 (VIC & NSW)
Oct 5, 6, 7 & 10 (QLD)
Oct 19, 20, 21 & 24 (SA & WA)
Nov 30, Dec 1, 2 & 5 (CANBERRA)
Captured Live
A magnificent combination of figure skating and opera from the world's largest open-air theatre in stunning HD.
For the first time in its distinguished history, Italy's historic Verona arena opens its doors to figure skating for this ground-breaking new show. Combining the beauty and skill of ice skating with some of the most famous arias from 12 of the world's greatest operas, this is an event to bring together aficionados of music and sport.
Among the skaters taking part are world number one Carolina Kostner, winner of the European Championships, and Olympic champion Stephane Lambiel. In a truly international line-up, they're joined by champions from China (Qing Pang, Jian Tong) and Russia (Tatiana Totmianina, Maxim Marinin).
For the music, top-level international opera stars collaborate with the 200-strong Verona Arena Orchestra and Chorus.Expect to hear arias from the likes of 'Don Giovanni', 'Aida', 'Carmen', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Turandot', 'Tosca' and 'La Traviata'.
Music: Coro e Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona
Director: Christian Biondani
Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo
Approx Duration: 77 minutes
Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare's Globe
Nov 2, 3, 4 & 7
Captured Live
Completing the Globe’s cinema season is a spectacular production of Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy DOCTOR FAUSTUS, directed by Matthew Dunster. The legendary story of a man who sells his soul to the devil for power and pleasure is given a bright and brilliant interpretation with puppets, pyrotechnics and magic tricks. Arthur Darvill, (Doctor Who), plays Mephistopheles. Paul Hilton, (Wuthering Heights and Klimt) takes the title role.
Director: Matthew Dunster
Cast: Arthur Darvill, Paul Hilton.
Approx Duration: 147 minutes plus interval
Ravel Double Bill
Glyndebourne
Nov 9, 10, 11 & 14
Captured Live
This production of Ravel’s only two one-act operas will reunite director Laurent Pelly and conductor Kazushi Ono, who made their Glyndebourne debuts in 2008 with Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. While L’enfant et les Sortilèges shares with that opera a child’s-eye view of a sometimes threatening world, L’heure Espagnole is a thoroughly adult confection. Stéphanie d’Oustrac, who last sang at Glyndebourne as Sesto in Giulio Cesare, will sing Concepción. Canadian baritone Elliot Madore will make his UK and Glyndebourne debut as Ramiro.
Director: Laurent Pelly
Cast: Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Elliot Madore
Approx Duration: 125 minutes
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Les Troyens
Royal Opera
Dec 8 & 12
Captured Live
Les Troyens is opera at its most epic. The sheer scale of its story, music, passion, staging and performers make this one of the great Royal Opera events of the decade. Berlioz’s great work is one of the most fabulously rich of all operas, a tour de force of passion in music, with extraordinarily demanding roles.
Taken from Virgil’s great poem The Aeneid, it brings alive a wealth of human emotions set against the monumental canvas of the rise and fall of empires. Celebrated director David McVicar’s work is on an impressive scale. The extraordinary world-class cast includes Jonas Kaufmann as the heroic Enée, Eva-Maria Westbroek as his beloved Didon and Anna Caterina Antonacci as the doomed prophetess Cassandre, under the baton of Antonio Pappano. Designs are by Es Devlin (designer for the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics) and Moritz Junge.
Music: Berlioz
Cast: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Bryan Hymel, Fabio Capitanucci, Eva-Maria Westbroek
Director: David McVicar
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Approx duration: 330 minutes (including two intervals)
Swan Lake
Royal Ballet
Dec 21, 22, 23 & 24
Captured Live
The greatest of all romantic ballets, Swan Lake is a perfect synthesis of choreography and music. Though Tchaikovsky did not live to see the work become a success, his first ballet score is now synonymous with ballet itself, inspiring generations of dancers and crossing over into popular culture. From the earliest days of the Vic-Wells Ballet, Swan Lake has been one of The Royal Ballet’s signature works. In creating this production, Anthony Dowell aimed to return to an authentic version of the choreography created by the great Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov for the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Yolanda Sonnabend’s designs draw on the Russian Imperial Court of that period with an inspired blend of historical accuracy and gothic fantasy.
Music: Tchaikovsky
Cast: Zenaida Yanowsky, Nehemiah Kish
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Additional Choreography: by Frederick Ashton and David Bintley
Conductor: TBC
The Nutcracker
Royal Ballet
Feb 1, 2, 3 & 6 - 2013
Captured Live 2012
From the very first notes of Tchaikovsky’s overture to The Nutcracker, a sense of mystery and magic pervades the theatre as Herr Drosselmeyer sets in train the events that will see his beloved nephew, Hans Peter, freed from the enchantment of the evil Mouse King by the resourceful Clara.
Tchaikovsky’s score contains some of the best know melodies in ballet, from the flurrying sounds of the Waltz of the Snowflakes to the dreamlike dance of The Sugar Plumb Fairy and the vigorous Russian Dance. Enjoy a enchanting outing with the family which includes a magically growing Christmas tree, a midnight battle of toy soldiers, a magical snowstorm, the Kingdom of the Sweets, The Sugar Plum Fairy, her handsome Prince and a glittering court in a series of dazzling dance.
Music: Tchaikovsky
Cast: Roberta Marquez, Steven McRae
Choreography: Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov
Conductor: TBC
Duration: 130 minutes (including one interval)
La bohème
Royal Opera
March 1, 2, 3 & 6 - 2013
Captured Live
Teeming with period detail, John Copley’s definitive production of this much-loved opera is traditional opera at its best. From a shabby garret to the bustling Café Momus to a snowy courtyard at dawn, this minutely observed panorama of 1830s Parisian life, beautifully designed by Julia Trevelyan Oman, conjures emotions and atmosphere ranging from joy to tragedy, in large-scale crowd scenes and intimate tableaux.
In Puccini’s depiction of the tender and ultimately tragic love between Mimì (Maija Kovalevska, Carmen in 3D, 2010) and Rodolfo (Rolando Villazón, Rodolfo in Robert Dornhelm’s film version of the opera, the title role in The Royal Opera’s Don Carlo), he achieved an immediacy, warmth and humanity that have rarely been equalled.
Music: Puccini
Cast: Rolando Villazón, Maija Kovalevska, Stefania Dovhan and Audun Iversen
Conductor: Mark Elder
Director: John Copley
Approx duration: 165 minutes (including two intervals)
Eugene Onegin
Royal Opera
May 10, 11, 12 & 15 - 2013
(excludes Melbourne & Sydney)
Captured Live
An opera full of poignancy and exquisite sensitivity to the nuances of growing up and wrestling to understand your emotions, Eugene Onegin is an inspiring vehicle for Kasper Holten’s first production for The Royal Opera. Working with the Danish set designer Mia Stensgaard, whose design hallmark is clean, strong images ripe with emotion, and fielding a brilliant cast (including Simon Keenlyside in the title role), Holten will provide a fresh reading of this classic opera.
Music: Tchaikovsky
Cast: Krassimira Stoyanova, Elena Maximova, Peter Rose, Simon Keenlyside, Pavol Breslik, Diana Montague.
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
Director: Kasper Holten
Approx duration: 3 hours 15 minutes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Royal Ballet
May 24, 25, 26 & 29 - 2013
Captured Live
Those familiar with Lewis Carroll’s literary menagerie of colourful characters will enjoy the clarity with which Christopher Wheeldon portrays them in dance. The whole Company is drawn into the fun, dancing a myriad of quirky characters: a twitchy White Rabbit, a tap dancing Mad Hatter, a sinuous caterpillar and so many more. Alice and the Knave of Hearts, deftly danced by two Royal Ballet Principal dancers, are at the centre of the story, and the role of The Queen of Hearts, another Principal, is wittily captured with hilarious results. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a brilliantly imagined show and, with a magical score, ingeniously inventive designs and a wealth of theatrical effects, has something for everyone to treasure.
Music: Joby Talbot
Cast: Sarah Lamb, FederIco Bonelli, Edward Watson, ZenaIda Yanowsky, Steven Mcrae
Conductor: David Briskin
Director: Kevin O'Hare
Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes
Nabucco
Royal Opera
June 7, 8, 9 & 12 - 2013
Captured Live
Plácido Domingo, one of the most celebrated talents of our time, takes another thrilling step into the baritone repertory as he sings the title role of Nabucco for the first time. This is a rare chance to see a genre-defining masterwork, containing some of the greatest choral music ever written, along with some wonderful arias and ensembles. He is joined by an exciting young cast including Ukranian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska as the power-hungry priestess Abigaille. Acclaimed theatre and opera director Daniele Abbado makes his Royal Opera debut directing this co- production with La Scala, Milan.
Verdi’s rich score offers melody, power and raw drama on a scale that does full justice to the opera’s epic themes of nationhood, faith, love and redemption and calls upon the full might of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus.
Music: Verdi
Cast: Plácido Domingo, Andrea Caré, Vitalij Kowaljow, Marianna Pizzolato, Liudmyla Monastyrska
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Director: Daniele Abbado
Duration: 170 minutes (includes one interval)
La donna del lago
Royal Opera
Jul 19, 20, 21 & 24 - 2013
Captured Live
The ultimate bel canto cast is assembled for this important yet rarely performed masterpiece. Based on Sir Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake, La donna del lago is the most fully romantic of Rossini’s Italian operas. Expansive ensembles and shimmering orchestration generate an opulence seldom heard in the composer’s comic works.
In the hands of three of the leading bel canto voices of our time, Juan Diego Flórez (Count Almaviva in The Royal Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tonio in The Royal Opera’s La Fille du régiment), Joyce DiDonato (who sang the title role in Cendrillon with The Royal Opera last Season), and Colin Lee (Tonio in the 2012 revival of La Fille du régiment), La donna del lago promises to be a musical revelation.
Music: Rossini
Cast: Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Colin Lee, Juan Diego Flórez, Simón Orfila
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Director: John Fulljames
Duration: 200 minutes (including one interval)
Gloriana
Royal Opera
Aug 2, 3, 4 & 7 - 2013
Captured Live
Award-winning director Richard Jones (Il trittico, Anna Nicole) directs a Gloriana for our time, framing the depiction of the 16th-century Queen in a setting that re-creates the excitement of our own Queen’s Coronation year. A superlative British cast brings to life this under-appreciated gem, a unique tribute both to the nation’s monarch and to its greatest opera composer.
Gloriana marks three major anniversaries: 60 years since the Queen’s Coronation, 60 years since the opera’s premiere at the Royal Opera House, and the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth.
Britten’s portrait of the public and private faces of Elizabeth I is a brilliant depiction of the Tudor court and the tension between affairs of state and affairs of the heart. Focusing on Elizabeth’s relationship with the young Earl of Essex, Gloriana captures the dichotomy between the public image of the Virgin Queen and her seething personal feelings – a familiar dichotomy in these days of celebrity-worship and media scrutiny.
Music: Benjamin Britten
Cast: Susan Bullock, Patricia Bardon, Kate Royal, Clive Bayley, Toby Spence, Mark Stone and Peter Coleman-Wright
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Director: Richard Jones
Duration: 180 minutes (including two intervals)