“It’s just adapting to the circumstances that we were faced with.” “The cafe scene feels less ‘bustling belle epoque cafe’ and more ‘lonely-hearts establishment’ at the moment, simply because there’s a limited number of people that we can have in the Cafe Momus,” Oliver Mears, the house’s director of opera, said a few days before the June 19 premiere. There are four, not 10, waiters in the cafe. The act opens with only 18 of 60 chorus members onstage, the rest singing from the wings, and 10 (not 20) children onstage.

In light of pandemic restrictions, the orchestra has 47 players, down from the usual 74.

It is Act II of a pared-down production of Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Royal Opera House. There are few waiters in attendance, and by the windows in the back three patrons dine alone. But the night spot is not as crowded as usual. A group of young men chatter away as a femme fatale tries to get their attention, jumping on tables and tossing undergarments. There will be short musical recitals in the Paul Hamlyn Hall performed every hour between 11am and 4pm on both days of the Open House London, including recitals from tenor Alan Pingarron, as well as special performances from current and former singers of The Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists’ Programme.LONDON - It’s an evening of drinking and revelry at Café Momus. The work will remain on display until 7 April 2022. The 12-metre long chalk-on-blackboard drawing, entitled Inferno, 2019, was created for the opening act of the ballet based on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and will mark Dean's first experience designing sets and costumes for the stage. In the Paul Hamlyn Hall, visitors will also see Tacita Dean’s original artwork for Inferno from Wayne McGregor’s eagerly anticipated Royal Ballet production of The Dante Project, which receives its world premiere in October. 4 September 2021–7 April 2022 Open daily from 12pmĪhead of the launch of its upcoming 2021/22 Season, the Royal Opera House will throw open its doors on the weekend of Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September as part of Open House London - giving families, first-time visitors and the culturally curious a taste of one of the world’s most famous theatres, in the heart of the West End, for free.

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