{"title": "Manon", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["stage/ballet"], "description": "RBO Encore 2026-27: Manon is a cinema screening of the ballet Manon. Kenneth MacMillan created the work for The Royal Ballet in 1974, adapting Abbé Prévost's novel, with Jules Massenet's score and Nicholas Georgiadis's designs. It tells of Manon, a young woman in the seedy underworld of 18th-century Paris, who falls in love with the student Des Grieux but remains tempted by the riches of Parisian society. 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Damiano Michieletto's searing production returns, casting scorching light on the lust, violence and destructive desire of the ever-popular opera. Ginger Costa-Jackson sings the title role alongside Russell Thomas as Don José, with Sesto Quatrini conducting Bizet's electrifying and sensual score.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/royal-ballet-opera-202627-carmen-63791/", "official_url": "https://www.phoenixcinema.co.uk/PhoenixCinemaLondon.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_447.TcsWebTab_448.TcsProgramme_590268", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/20d5a934f12fcee4d35514ea2cbdac32b7dcc52847e090e8c636c07e9f87dc2d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Swan Lake - Royal Ballet and Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "GBP 43", "price_from": "43.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/swan-lake-tickets/2027/03/27/2", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/ballet/classical-ballet"], "description": "Swan Lake - Royal Ballet and Opera is a classical ballet at the Royal Opera House, staging Tchaikovsky's most famous and beloved work. Liam Scarlett's production tells of Princess Odette, cursed by the sorcerer Von Rothbart to become a swan by day, who falls in love with Prince Siegfried, the only vow of everlasting love able to break the spell. 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Birmingham Royal Ballet revives Peter Wright and Galina Samsova's production of Tchaikovsky's classic, danced by the company with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia playing the score live. 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