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Join us on Google+
Media hub Google launched brand pages for Google+ this week and we're pleased to announce that the Royal Opera House now has a presence on the network. We’d like to connect with you! Add us to...
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Our website: A look forward
Evaluating the current website and developing the new © ROH 2011 Back in 2001 someone boldly told me that theatre goers would not want to book their tickets via the internet. If there is one thing I...
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Our new website: An update on progress
Since my last post, there has been a great deal of progress in developing our new and improved website. Like the rest of the team here, I was delighted with the feedback given to my last blog; it’s...
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Cookies on the Royal Opera House website
A Nutcracker Christmas Lunch and Sugar Plum Fairy Afternoon Tea © Lia Vittone/ROH 2012 We want to share with you a change we are making in how we manage cookies. Earlier this year a new piece of...
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Your thoughts: Why #culturematters
Chance to Dance Level 1 Family Day, Sunday 17 March © Brian Slater/ROH 2013 [View the story "Your thoughts: Why #culturematters" on Storify] Find out how you can help us make a case for the arts and...
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Online booking: how thousands of orders are handled a minute on busy days
Cloud © John Mueller We’re often asked by customers and other arts organizations how we deal with our big booking days. What’s behind our website, how does it work and what are we doing to ensure that...
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Introducing Chirp: An app that uses music to share data
Mobile app Chirp, to be used in Matthew Herbert's opera The Crackle © ROH/Chris Shipman, 2014 First things first, what does it do? Essentially Chirp lets people share links via sound. If you take a...
View ArticleWatch: Director Thaddeus Strassberger on Glare – ‘I’ve never done a robot...
Glare, an operatic thriller by German/Danish composer Søren Nils Eichberg, will have its world premiere in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 14 November 2014, directed by Thaddeus Strassberger. 'I've...
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Google Glass: Can it be embraced in classical music and the arts?
Google Glass © Rijans007/Wikimedia Commons, 2013 It might seem like something from an early 90s sci-fi film, but fiction has recently become reality in the form of Google Glass - wearable technology...
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How to be perfect: Androids, humans and the danger of the ideal
Sky Ingram © Christina Raphaelle, 2014 ‘My girlfriend is too perfect.’ It sounds like the opening line for a Jeremy Kyle show. But what could the problem be? Strangely, perfection is a deeply worrying...
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Baton bashing: When videogame music and classical music come together
A 1-Up graphic from Super Mario Bros. Courtesy Creative Commons It was the melody that soundtracked the callusing of two hundred million thumbs: in June 1984, iconic pixellated puzzler Tetris was...
View ArticleWatch: Antonio Pappano conducts the William Tell overture wearing a Go-Pro
We recently strapped GoPro cameras to Music Director of The Royal Opera Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House as they rehearsed the iconic William Tell (Guillaume Tell) Overture....
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