Venue: Linbury Theatre, The Royal Opera House
Dates & Opening Times: Monday 3 December 2018 to Sunday 6 January 2019.
Tickets: Tickets to the live broadcast of The Nutcracker cost from £13 to £17 for adults (free for children from five to 15) and tickets for all other cinema screenings cost £10 to £15 for adults (free for children). To claim the free children’s places, book a family package, with a maximum of four children (five to 15 years) going for free per two adults.
This Christmas, The Royal Opera House is offering free culture for kids in London as they launch their first ever Cinema Festival! There will be free children's tickets to 11 opera and ballet performances which take place from 3rd December to 6th of January 2019. This will even include weekend performances, which means you won't miss out on any of your favourite shows! All performances will be screened in the Linbury Theatre, which is the West End's newest theatre.
This festive, family-friendly festival is free for children from ages five to fifteen! And the festival will open with our Christmas favourite; The Nutcracker. The first screening of this will take place on Monday 3rd December at 7.15 pm.
This will be followed by playful ballet rom-com La Fille mal gardée (Saturday 8 December, 2pm), Mozart’s entrancing opera The Magic Flute (Sunday 9 December, 4pm) and a visit to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, among other strange events, in the ballet Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Saturday 15 December, 2pm). Fairy-tale opera Cendrillon (Cinderella, Sunday 16 December, 4pm) will enchant the little ones with its storybook designs before Swan Lake (Saturday 22 December, 2pm), which is the perfect introduction to classical ballet. This is followed by The Winter’s Tale, based on Shakespeare’s play, on Sunday 23 December at 4pm.
After Christmas, the ballet Romeo and Juliet will celebrate one of literature’s greatest love stories on Saturday 29 December at 2pm; the romantic Parisian opera La bohème follows on Sunday 30 December at 4pm. On Saturday 5 January at 2 pm audiences get a chance to see The Royal Ballet’s new Swan Lake, in Liam Scarlett’s spectacular staging. The Royal Ballet’s Giselle will close the Cinema Festival on Sunday 6 January at 4pm.
