Carlos Acosta News

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favourite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 20 for the 2023 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favourite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

The Royal Opera House welcomes King Charles III and Queen Camilla for a special performance.

Following a sell-out success and one of the most talked about theatrical events of 2023 with Black Sabbath - The Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to the beloved classics with a 2024 UK tour of Sir Peter Wright's sumptuous staging of The Sleeping Beauty in the production's 40th anniversary year.

A stunning celebration of the music of Birmingham legends Black Sabbath performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet. The combination of heavy metal music with ballet may not seem an obvious one but here we are thanks to the direction of Carlos Acosta, who had the vision to celebrate Birmingham’s most popular musical exports, Black Sabbath, in this three-act ballet from Birmingham Royal Ballet.

The complete cast has been set for the world premiere of Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Norwich Theatre and its co-producing partner Valid Productions have announced their 2024 tour of On Before which includes dates at Edinburgh, Plymouth, Birmingham and Buxton and an international stop at Sarasota (FL) Opera House.

Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov sizzle in a crowdpleasing revival of the Royal Ballet's 2013 production

Leading dance and teaching organisation Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has acquired Dancing Times' photographic archive. Learn more about the archive here!

Birmingham Royal Ballet has released first-look production shots from their sold-out world premiere production of Black Sabbath - The Ballet which continues performances at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 30 September. Check out the photos here!

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre has published a new brochure, a bumper magazine full of shows to go on sale next week. Learn more about the upcoming performances coming to the theatre here!

Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced it will perform at the Steinmetz Hall in Orlando in 2023. Learn more about the performance and how to get tickets here!

​​​​​​​SACRA/PROFANA, San Diego's premiere professional vocal ensemble, has announced the concerts for their 15th Season melding vocal mastery with a social justice ethos. 

Birmingham Hippodrome has announced a line-up of new productions for 2024 including a stellar line up of West End and Broadway smash-hit musicals.

Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced The Virtual Stage - a tech focused project featuring content developed in collaboration with Canon and RiVR, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies that explores the many different ways that AR, VR, 3D mapping and Motion Capture can be applied to BRB's productions in order to enhance experiences and interaction,increase accessibility, promote its productions worldwide and bring ballet to life in new ways.

Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced that Yi Wei, a Chinese conductor based in Manchester, has joined BRB and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia as the Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons.

The Royal Opera House will release three exclusive recordings of The Royal Ballet’s founding choreographer Frederick Ashton’s work on Royal Opera House Stream. Available to watch from Thursday 17 August, this triple bill was recorded in 2022, uniting Ashton’s modernist Scènes de ballet, the emotive A Month in the Country, and the rapturous Rhapsody.

The Royal Ballet opens the 2023/24 Season with a revival of Carlos Acosta’s celebrated production of Don Quixote. This production premiered in 2013 and receives its 50th performance on the Royal Opera House stage. This much-loved classic teems with comedy, wit and an abundance of bravura choreography, showcasing the Company at their very best. 

How do mere mortals celebrate their 50th birthday? By having a midlife crisis? Not dance royalty Carlos Acosta, who seems to literally turn back time by making a return to the stage as a dancer - having retired from performing in 2016 - in Carlos at 50 at the Royal Opera House (with five, basically sold out performances), his old stomping ground.

Legendary dancer Carlos Acosta and the Acosta Dance Foundation (ADF) have announced the launch of the Acosta Dance Centre, a new vibrant hub that will offer transformative dance classes, courses, performances, residencies and programmes for the local community of Greenwich and beyond.