Podcast » John Tooley
If ever a job needed diplomacy it must be as General Director of the Royal Opera House, a post John Tooley held from 1970 until 1988. He was also Assistant to the General Administrator from 1955 to...
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Podcast » Julia Farron
Julia Farron was born in London in 1922. She was part of the vanguard of extraordinary talent that helped shape ballet in 20th Century Britain. In 1931 she was the first scholarship pupil to join the...
Timeline Event » 1974 – Premiere of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon by The Royal Ballet
The eponymous heroine of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 Manon has become a role that nearly all aspiring ballerinas long to dance. Though there was initial criticism of the seemingly one-dimensional...