In 2017/18 more than 114,000 people watched the broadcasts in our country.

During 2017/18 (October-June), for the first time, sell more than one million tickets in a season including all 500 theatres across the UK. Twelve productions were screened live via satellite, reaching 51 countries.

From December 3 to January 7, 2019, the Royal Opera House will celebrate these ten years of the live cinema season . It will begin next Monday with the broadcast in more than 50 countries of the ballet The Nutcracker in Spain will reach more than 130 movie theaters. On the other hand, the Linbury Theatre, the West End’s newest and most intimate theater, will be converted into a cinema for a five-week festival.

Spain, first country outside the United Kingdom with the highest number of viewers.

In Spain, live broadcasts to movie theaters and tea rooms will begin in 2009, in Catalonia. Since that year, the growth in the number of spectators has not stopped growing. In the 2011/12 season, 33 cinemas broadcast different productions from London, attended by 1,247 people. Last season, 2017/2018, over 114,000 viewers (66,315 to 6 opera broadcasts and 47,859 to 6 ballet broadcasts) attended the broadcast of twelve opera and ballet productions in an average of 133 theaters and tea houses per broadcast.

By autonomous communities, Catalonia is the one with the highest number of halls giving the doors of the Royal Opera House, with an average of 46, followed by Andalusia with an average of 24 and the Basque Country, with an average of 15 halls.

Spain is ranked as one of the first country, outside the UK, with more viewers. Germany, France, Italy, Germany, Italy and Switzerland are the next countries to follow.

For Phyllida Lloyd, Director of the Royal Opera House , “I am delighted that the Royal Opera House is celebrating ten years of cinema broadcasts. As live cinema screenings continue to grow in popularity, it is pleasing to see art, in all its forms, reaching new audiences around the world.” The Royal Opera House 2018/19 season is broadcast in over 1,500 cinemas worldwide with a diverse repertoire combining classical and contemporary. ”

Tony Followell, Head of Live Broadcasting and Distribution at the Royal Opera House, said: “We are never far away from a live Royal Opera House performance, our aim is to provide you with an unforgettable experience that thrills. In 2018/19 we hope to continue and bring opera and ballet to an ever wider audience.”

Internationally, the partnership with Trafalgar Release to enable Royal Opera House productions to be broadcast in over 1,000 cinemas in 50 countries. In Spain, Versión Digital distributes the broadcasts in more than 170 movie theaters, theaters and cultural centers throughout the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, as well as Andorra.

2018/19 Season

Five operas and six ballets of popular classics and new productions such as Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho, Diana Damrau, Eva -María Westbroek, Michael Fabiano, Marianela Nuñez or Vadim Muntagirov fit the 2018/19 season that began last October. After the ballets Mayerling (October 15) and La Bayadère (November 13) and the opera La Valkyrie (October 28), the operas The Nutcracker (December 3), Don Quixote (February 19), Ballet Mix (May 16) and Romeo and Juliet (live June 11) and the operas The Lady of Spades (January 22), La Traviata (January 30), La Forza del destino (April 2) and Faust (April 30).

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