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Opera
2026/27 Season
Opera and ballet at the Ardenne
The house opens at seven. The overture will not wait for you.
The repertoire
Full listing
Twelve stagings, one company.
First performed
1870
In the programme
Coppélia
A comedy, played as one. The company needs to do this more often and we know it.
Music Léo DelibesConductor Bo HjortdalDirector Sable OduyaRunning time 2h 00m
Cast
Swanilda
Wren Sandoval
Franz
Kasimir Böhm
Dr Coppélius
Elias Nkemdirim
Coppélia
Constance Mbeki
The house
Nine hundred seats, no bad ones.
Hover the plan to read a seat; click to hold it. Sold seats are greyed. Hover a price band to pick it out across the whole auditorium.
Stage
— seats
The interactive plan needs WebGL. Call the box office and we will walk you through the house.
Stalls Rows A–T, flat floor
£95
Grand circle The best sightlines in the house
£78
Upper circle Steep, cheap, and acoustically superb
£42
Boxes Four seats, private ante-room
£140
Choose your seats
The Bellhaven chandelier, rehung 1972
From the archive
The whole ledger
A hundred and twenty-eight years of first nights.
Patrons
Ticket income covers about half of it.
The rest is made up by people who decided this house should still be here in a hundred years.
Friend
£60 a year
- Priority booking, three days ahead of public sale
- The season book, posted before it goes online
- Two open rehearsals a year
Supporter
£250 a year
- Everything in Friend, a week earlier
- Interval room on first nights
- Named in the programme, if you want to be
- One rehearsal of your choosing, per production
Benefactor
£1,200 a year
- Everything in Supporter
- Two seats held for you all season
- Backstage on a get-in day, which is the good one
Production syndicate
£15,000 per staging
- Underwrite one new staging outright
- Credited on the title page for the life of the production
- The model showing, with the designer
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