T0778481599Contemporary arts festival Deloitte Ignite returns for its sixth year curated for the first time by Stephen Fry, actor, writer, comedian, television presenter and lifelong Wagner fan, alongside The Royal Opera. Deloitte Ignite this year explores the work and creativity of Verdi and Wagner celebrating the 200th anniversaries of their birth with a range of events from a unique installation in Covent Garden Piazza by Es Devlin, to a one-man show by Simon Callow, to live radio broadcasts and choral work. | |
| 6 Sep 13 to 29 Sep 13 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L607582528 |
T932502939The fifth Deloitte Ignite fesival is timed to coincide with the Paralympics. | |
| 2 Sep 11 to 9 Sep 11 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L0808886718 |
2010 - T1024654106This year the curator for the Royal Opera House’s contemporary arts festival will be internationally renowned pianist, composer and auteur Joanna MacGregor. For the 2010 festival Joanna has taken her inspiration from forests: forests as a place of quiet, reflective beauty, mystery and discovery, as places of fairytale narrative, as well as metaphorical spaces. She has invited artists to create forests all over the Royal Opera House in different materials: recycled and reclaimed wood, organic materials, old costumes and mannequins, shimmering projections and reflecting pools. There are films, music and dance performances, soundscapes and installations. In amongst the forests are hints of the forthcoming Season, as well as echoes of Covent Garden’s old flower market. Each space is designed so that you can enter at any moment and stay for as long or as little time as you would like with performances recurring throughout the weekend. | |
| 3 Sep 10 to 5 Sep 10 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L0841644003 |
T162907428Deloitte Ignite returns for its second year with a contemporary arts festival curated not by a single artist but by an entire magazine. Time Out will curate the festival filling the Royal Opera House with gigs, video art, exuberant fashion, site-specific theatre, comedy, cabaret, dance, film and surprise events. The Royal Opera House has invited Time Out and its Editors to explore the traditions and heritage of the building and its arts forms and create a festival of work that explodes preconceptions and delivers an alternative view of opera and ballet. The Deloitte Ignite 09 line-up features a lying down classical music concert, specially commissioned work from artist Kathleen Herbert theatre company Dreamthinkspeak, interactive work from choreographic and dance artists Angela Woodhouse and Ben Wright, Cabaret performers Jonny Woo and Bourgeois & Maurice, with surprise events from theatre makers Chris Coode, Will Tuckett and Adrian Lee plus guest appearances from comedians and new magic rising stars including Chris Cox. These are just a few of the artists in a programme that will unfold throughout the summer. | |
| 4 Sep 09 to 6 Sep 09 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L01210311802 |
