Stage Tube: First Look at Royal Opera House's 2013/14 Season

The Season sees seven new productions on the Main Stage including new productions of Parsifal, Les Vêpres siciliennes, and Die Frau ohne Schatten to celebrate milestone anniversaries of Wagner, Verdi and Strauss respectively. Other new Main Stage productions include Don Giovanni from Kasper Holten and Manon Lescaut from Jonathan Kent.

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As well as new work, the 2013/14 Season also features a host of classic productions including Turandot, Le nozze di Figaro, Faust, and Carmen.

The 2013/14 Season sees the programme of the Linbury Studio Theatre integrated into The Royal Opera with new works including How the Whale Became (based on a collection of stories by TEd Hughes) and The Wasp Factory, an adaptations of the novel by Iain Banks. In total five new commissions and two UK premieres will be staged in the Linbury.

Visiting companies include English Touring Opera, Music Theatre Wales, The Opera Group and Welsh National Opera.

Live cinema relays during the Season include Turandot, Les Vêpres siciliennes, Parsifal, Don Giovanni and Manon Lescaut. We are very grateful to Bank of America Merrill Lynch for supporting the Royal Opera House Cinema Season.

Star names performing at Covent Garden over the coming Season include Bryn Terfel, Anna Netrebko, Angela Gheorghiu, Simon Keenlyside, Elina Garanca and Joseph Calleja.