THE ROYAL BALLET Approximate timings DIRECTOR KEVIN O’HARE Live cinema relay begins at 7.15pm, ballet begins at 7.30pm FOUNDER DAME NINETTE DE VALOIS OM CH DBE FOUNDER CHOREOGRAPHER The Dream 55 minutes SIR FREDERICK ASHTON OM CH CBE Interval FOUNDER MUSIC DIRECTOR CONSTANT LAMBERT Symphonic Variations 20 minutes PRIMA BALLERINA ASSOLUTA Interval DAME MARGOT FONTEYN DBE Marguerite and Armand 35 minutes The live relay will end at approximately 10.25pm Tweet your thoughts about tonight’s performance before it starts, THE DREAM during the intervals or afterwards with #ROHashton FREE DIGITAL PROGRAMME SYMPHONIC Royal Opera House Digital Programmes bring together a range of specially selected films, articles, pictures and features to bring you closer to the production. Use promo code ‘FREEDREAM’ to claim yours (RRP £2.99). VARIATIONS roh.org.uk/publications 2016/17 LIVE CINEMA SEASON MARGUERITE OTELLO WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE 2017 AND ARMAND 2017/18 LIVE CINEMA SEASON THE MAGIC FLUTE WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 LA BOHÈME TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2017 CHOREOGRAPHY FREDERICK ASHTON ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND MONDAY 23 OCTOBER 2017 THE NUTCRACKER TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER 2017 CONDUCTOR EMMANUEL PLASSON RIGOLETTO TUESDAY 16 JANUARY 2018 TOSCA WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2018 ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE THE WINTER’S TALE WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2018 CONCERT MASTER VASKO VASSILEV CARMEN TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2018 NEW MCGREGOR, THE AGE OF ANXIETY, DIRECTED FOR THE SCREEN BY NEW WHEELDON TUESDAY 27 MARCH 2018 ROSS MACGIBBON MACBETH WEDNESDAY 4 APRIL 2018 MANON THURSDAY 3 MAY 2018 LIVE FROM THE SWAN LAKE TUESDAY 12 JUNE 2018 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017, 7.15PM For more information about the Royal Opera House and to explore our work further, visit roh.org.uk/cinema THE DREAM SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS Oberon, King of the Fairies, has quarrelled with his Queen, Titania, who refuses to MUSIC CÉSAR FRANCK hand over the changeling boy. While Titania sleeps, Oberon drops a magic herb into DESIGNER SOPHIE FEDOROVITCH her eyes to make her fall in love with the first creature she sees... LIGHTING DESIGNER JOHN B. READ Two lovers, Hermia and Lysander, come to the forest. Hermia is pursued by STAGING WENDY ELLIS SOMES, MALIN THOORS Demetrius, to whom she has been promised by her father; Demetrius is pursued BALLET MASTER RICARDO CERVERA by Helena, his former love. Oberon orders Puck to drop the same magic herb into Demetrius’s eyes so that he will love Helena. When Puck mistakes the two men, MARIANELA NUÑEZ VADIM MUNTAGIROV confusion reigns. YASMINE NAGHDI JAMES HAY YUHUI CHOE TRISTAN DYER MUSIC FELIX MENDELSSOHN SOLO PIANO PAUL STOBART MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT JOHN LANCHBERY DESIGNER DAVID WALKER LIGHTING DESIGNER JOHN B. READ STAGING ANTHONY DOWELL, CHRISTOPHER CARR MARGUERITE AND ARMAND BALLET MISTRESS SAMANTHA RAINE BALLET MASTER JONATHAN HOWELLS In the last stages of her fatal illness, the Lady of the Camellias relives PRINCIPAL COACHING ANTHONY DOWELL, LESLEY COLLIER some incidents of her tragic life. TITANIA AKANE TAKADA MUSIC FRANZ LISZT OBERON STEVEN MCRAE ORCHESTRATION DUDLEY SIMPSON CHANGELING INDIAN BOY AMBROSE BARTLETT DESIGNER CECIL BEATON PUCK VALENTINO ZUCCHETTI LIGHTING DESIGNER JOHN B. READ BOTTOM BENNET GARTSIDE STAGING GRANT COYLE RUSTICS BENJAMIN ELLA, KEVIN EMERTON, PRINCIPAL COACHING ALEXANDER AGADZHANOV, JONATHAN COPE SOLOMON GOLDING, ERICO MONTES, BENESH NOTATOR GRANT COYLE CALVIN RICHARDSON HELENA ITZIAR MENDIZABAL MARGUERITE ZENAIDA YANOWSKY DEMETRIUS TOMAS MOCK ARMAND ROBERTO BOLLE HERMIA CLAIRE CLAVERT HIS FATHER CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS LYSANDER MATTHEW BALL A DUKE GARY AVIS PEASEBLOSSOM GEMMA PITCHLEY-GALE ADMIRERS OF MARGUERITE MATTHEW BALL, REECE CLARKE, COBWEB EMMA MAGUIRE DAVID DONNELLY, NICOL EDMONDS, KEVIN EMERTON, TOMAS MOCK, MOTH ELIZABETH HARROD FERNANDO MONTAÑO, ERICO MONTES MUSTARDSEED ROMANY PAJDAK MAID MICA BRADBURY FAIRIES ARTISTS OF THE ROYAL BALLET LONDON ORATORY JUNIOR CHOIR SOLO PIANO ROBERT CLARK DIRECTOR CHARLES COLE REFER TO YOUR DIGITAL PROGRAMME FOR THE FULL CAST AND LATEST INFORMATION. CASTING IS CORRECT AT TIME OF PRINTING. DETAILS OF LIVE PERFORMANCES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE..