Opera & Ballet – Page 29 – Seen and Heard International

The Ballet Icons Gala 20th Anniversary is a glittering occasion all round

17/02/202616/02/2026 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom Ballet Icons Gala 20th Anniversary: Guest dancers, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Maria Seletskaja (conductor). London Coliseum, 15.2.2026. (JO’D)

Sae Maeda and Marcelino Sambé in *Chroma* © Jack Devant

Oropesa and Alaimo are outstanding in a Madrid concert performance of Verdi’s I masnadieri

17/02/202616/02/2026 by José Irurzun

Spain Verdi, I masnadieri (concert version): Chorus (chorus master: José Luis Basso) and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Francesco Lanzillotta (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 14.2.2026. (JMI)

Final bows for *I masnadieri* at Teatro Real © J. del Real

New Francisco Coll opera at Teatro Real with Àlex Rigola’s superb libretto based on Ibsen

17/02/202616/02/2026 by José Irurzun

Spain Coll, Enemigo del Pueblo: Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Christian Karlsen (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 13.2.2026. (JMI)

Brenda Rae (Petra) and José Antonio López (Doctor) © J. Del Real

The superb singing and sublime music of ENO’s Coney Island Così survives all the distractions of the fair

15/02/202614/02/2026 by Christopher Sallon

United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Skills Ensemble, Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Dinis Sousa (conductor). London Coliseum, 10.2.2026. (CSa)

[l-r] Taylor Raven, Lucy Crowe, Darwin Prakash, Joshua Blue and Andrew Foster-Williams in ENO’s *Così fan tutte* © James Glossop

McGregor’s choreography challenges the dancers but Osipova is a magnetic stage presence in Woolf Works

16/02/202611/02/2026 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works – a triptych: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Students of The Royal Ballet School, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Koen Kessels (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Ross MacGibbon) from the Royal Opera House to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 9.2.2026. (JPr)

Natalia Osipova as Virginia Woolf (and Marcelino Sambé as Septimus) in Wayne McGregor’s *I now, I then* © 2026 Johan Persson

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The Ballet Icons Gala 20th Anniversary is a glittering occasion all round

Oropesa and Alaimo are outstanding in a Madrid concert performance of Verdi’s I masnadieri

New Francisco Coll opera at Teatro Real with Àlex Rigola’s superb libretto based on Ibsen

The superb singing and sublime music of ENO’s Coney Island Così survives all the distractions of the fair

McGregor’s choreography challenges the dancers but Osipova is a magnetic stage presence in Woolf Works

Anna Netrebko reigns supreme in Un ballo in maschera in Paris

Stylisation creates meaning in Bremen’s powerful Doctor Atomic

DecaDance: Jamiel Devernay-Laurence’s further impressive programme of dance