Royal Opera House Collections Online

If you're interested in operatic history, you'll find this invaluable.  It's a database of Royal Opera House performances, going back in time ...

Royal Opera House Collections - click here

Children Need Music, insists Royal Society for the Arts

Spotted in the news today, on the Royal Opera House website:-

"Every child should have an education in arts and culture

"A strong cultural education is vital for the UK's social and economic future, argues Vikki Heywood, chair of the RSA."

No-one at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland would argue with that observation!  Read the article online HERE.

Watch Opera Online with Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theatre Plus is a resource that the Whittaker Library subscribes to for the benefit of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland staff and students. Find Digital Theatre Plus on the Whittaker Library website, or via our Mahara pages.

Musicians, don't be fooled by the name - there's opera there, too! These were added in August 2014:-

Three new releases from the Royal Opera House
Three more titles have been added to the Royal Opera House Collection:

Hansel and Gretel
Eugene Onegin
Dido and Aeneas

New Opera Titles Added to Digital Theatre Plus

Three more titles have been added to the Royal Opera House Collection:
Hansel and Gretel
Eugene Onegin
Dido and Aeneas

Staff and students of the RCS should ask at the library for username and password to log into Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theatre Plus Goes All Operatic

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Whittaker Library subscribes to this excellent resource for the benefit of our registered students and staff. 

We learn that today, Digital Theatre Plus is launching a selection of content from the Royal Opera House.  So, musicians, don't forget - Digital Theatre Plus is for you too!

New to Digital Theatre Plus:
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

This Thursday Digital Theatre Plus
launches its first selection of content from this iconic production house.  

Find Digital Theatre Plus on the Whittaker Library website, or via our Mahara pages.

Royal Opera House - what it's like being an opera singer

From the ROH website:-

Jette Parker Young Artists - Insight Evening

21 February 2012 (Calendar)
Clore Studio Upstairs

Introductory: suitable for newcomers

Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes | No Interval

Generously supported by
the Paul Hamlyn Education Fund

Next Performance Tue 21 Feb 2012, 7:30 PM

Buy Now

Background

Since 2001 The Royal Opera’s Young Artists Programme has been contributing to the development of the opera stars of the future with coaching ranging from music and sword-fighting to stagecraft and media training. Here, current members, alumni and Royal Opera House staff divulge the intensive two-year process.
Tickets: £16.30 | £7.10 students

On this day: Beethoven anniversary too!

16th December, 1770: Happy Birthday Beethoven

The Royal Opera House reminds us today is a significant day!

Born on this day in 1770. To celebrate, a clip of his only opera - Fidelio

Twitter handle: RoyalOperaHouse

Win an amazing day….and a lifetime of listening!

 http://theshowmustgo.com/2011/11/09/win-an-amazing-day-and-a-lifetime-of-listening/

"To celebrate the launch of The Show Must Go On, our friends at the Royal Opera House and EMI Classics have put their heads together to create a Show VIP Package Prize. The winner will receive two tickets to an end-of-year show at The Royal Opera House, a backstage VIP tour and ‘A Festival of Ballet’ collection of 50 CDs from EMI Classics, featuring music from Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

The competition will take place on Twitter – you’ll find us @showgametweets. All we ask is that you send us your crazy tales of your show experiences. Whether it’s that time you had to deliver dentures to Someone Quite Famous’ dressing room during a work experience stint or the evening you watched Peter Pan fly into the audience and hover there while stage crew scrambled to keep the show on track- we want to hear them! The best #showtales will be collated and we’ll be very picky about our winner… the biggest challenge of all? Making us laugh with an anecdote of just 140 characters."

DISCLAIMER:- Whittaker is telling you about this out of the kindness of 'his' heart, but this is a competition run by the Royal Opera House and EMI Classics. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Whittaker Library.

Wigs @ Royal Opera House (a YouTube video)

This YouTube link might interest our Costume Department ... Wigs at the Royal Opera House.