The Royal Ballet will also be presenting new work: Carmen (by Principal Guest Artist, Carlos Acosta), and Viscera and the full-length Frankenstein (by Artist in Residence, Liam Scarlett). The 2015/16 season, he said, would include twelve operas and ballets and, for the first time, screenings of matinée performances.

The screening was introduced, after canapés and champagne, by the Director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare. The aim of the event was to promote the already increasingly popular screenings as a medium for watching opera and ballet, and of making these accessible to a wider audience. To mark both the launch of its Live Cinema Season 2015/16 and the fiftieth anniversary of Kenneth MacMillan’s production of Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Opera House arranged a live screening of a performance of the ballet for an invited audience at BAFTA in Piccadilly.

Mandolin Dance: James Hay, Luca Acri, Kevin Emerton, Paul Kay, Fernando Montaño, Marcelino Sambéīallroom Guests and Townspeople: Artists of the Royal Ballet Three Harlots: Itziar Mendizabal, Olivia Cowley, Helen Crawford Juliet’s Friends: Elizabeth Harrod, Meaghan Grace Hinkis, Fumi Kaneko, Emma Maguire, Yasmine Naghdi, Romany Pajdak

United Kingdom Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet: The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Koen Kessels (conductor), Live screening from The Royal Opera House, London, (J.O’D) Steven McRae and Itziar Mendizabal in Romeo and JulietĮscalus (Prince of Verona): Bennet Gartside

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