Royal Ballet and Opera: Playbill for world premiere of Oberon at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 12 April 1826 © Royal Opera House
Royal Ballet and Opera: Costume design by Attilio Comelli for an unnamed female character in Madama Butterfly (1905) © ROH Collections
Royal Ballet and Opera: Costume design for Suzuki from 1905 production of Madama Butterfly © 2016 ROH Collections.
Royal Ballet and Opera: Detail of poster for the world premiere of Billy Budd performed by the Covent Garden Opera Company at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1 December 1951 © Royal Opera House
Royal Ballet and Opera: Poster for the world premiere of Billy Budd performed by the Covent Garden Opera Company at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1 December 1951 © Royal Opera House
Royal Ballet and Opera: Theodore Uppman as Billy Budd in the world premiere of Billy Budd performed by the Covent Garden Opera Company at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden © Royal Opera House/ROGER WOOD
Royal Ballet and Opera: Scene from Billy Budd performed by the Covent Garden Opera Company at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden © Royal Opera House/ROGER WOOD
Royal Ballet and Opera: Basil Coleman, Benjamin Britten and Joan Cross during rehearsals for Gloriana in 1953 at Orme Square ©1953 ROH Collections. Photograph by Roger Wood
Royal Ballet and Opera: Benjamin Britten and John Pritchard (conductor) sharing a joke during rehearsals for Gloriana in the Crush Bar of the Royal Opera House ©ROH Collections. Photograph by Roger Wood
Royal Ballet and Opera: Geraint Evans as Lord Mountjoy, Jennifer Vyvyan as Lady Rich, Monica Sinclair as Frances and Joan Cross as Queen Elizabeth I in Gloriana at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1953 © Royal Opera House/ROGER WOOD
Royal Ballet and Opera: Covent Garden Opera Company in Gloriana (1953) © Roger Wood / ROH Collections
Royal Ballet and Opera: Scene from Gloriana at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1953 © Royal Opera House/ROGER WOOD
Royal Ballet and Opera: Severed head prop used by John Tomlinson as the Green Knight in Gawain, The Royal Opera, 1991 © Royal Opera House
Royal Ballet and Opera: Material from Collections production file for Anna Nicole, The Royal Opera, 2011 © Royal Opera House
Royal Ballet and Opera: Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole in Anna Nicole © ROH / Bill Cooper 2011
Royal Ballet and Opera: Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole and Gerald Finley as Stern in Anna Nicole, The Royal Opera, © ROH / Bill Cooper 2011
Royal Ballet and Opera: Helena Raskar and Christoph Pohl in Morgen und Abend © ROH 2015, photograph by Clive Barda
Royal Ballet and Opera: Sarah Wegener and Christoph Pohl in Morgen und Abend © ROH 2015, photograph by Clive Barda
Royal Ballet and Opera: The principals (2) in The Exterminating Angel (C) ROH 2017. Photograph by Clive Barda
Royal Ballet and Opera: John Tomlinson and Anne Sofie Von Otter in The Exterminating Angel (C) ROH 2017. Photograph by Clive Barda