The musicians of the Royal Opera would not rehearse a work merely to see how it would sound.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

Set to music by John Lanchbery with choreography by Frederick Ashton and performed in character costume by members of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera House orchestra.

* 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

She was awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and made her début at Covent Garden as Marie in La Fille du régiment in 1876.

In 2011, an operatic adaptation by composer Tarik O ' Regan and librettist Tom Phillips was premiered at the Royal Opera House in London.

* 1734 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

* 1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier.

European opera houses and festivals including the Royal Opera in London, La Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Festival, La Fenice in Venice, and the Maggio Musicale in Florence have also transmitted their productions to theaters in cities around the world since 2006, including 90 cities in the U. S.

Notable works of this time period include public buildings such as the Royal Swedish Opera and private developments such as the luxury housing developments on Strandvägen.

Distinguished among Stockholm's many theatres are the Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten ), one of Europe's most renowned theatres, and the Royal Swedish Opera, inaugurated in 1773.

* 1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

* Nick Dear's adaptation for the Royal National Theatre, called The Villains ' Opera, 2002

In the mid 1980s, Curry performed in The Rivals ( Bob Acres 1983 ) and in several plays with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, including The Threepenny Opera ( MacHeath 1986 ), Dalliance ( Theodore 1986 ), and Love For Love ( Tattle 1985 ).

* September 18 – A new theatre to hold the Royal Opera House opens in London to replace the first, burnt down in a fire in 1808.

* January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* April 16 – Alcina, George Frideric Handel's Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* March 16 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm ; he lives until March 29, and is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.

* December 7 – The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal ( now the Royal Opera House ) is opened.

* January 18 – The first opera performance in the Swedish language, Thetis and Phelée, performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.

Bradley eventually developed the explanation of aberration in about September 1728 and his theory was presented to the Royal Society in mid January the next year.

Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit diffraction, which he presented to the Royal Society in 1803

The news about Davy's lamp was made public at a Royal Society meeting in Newcastle on 3 November 1815, and the paper describing the lamp was formally presented on 9 November.

He continued to investigate natural history and in 1823, the last year of his life, he presented his Observations on the Migration of Birds to the Royal Society.

In 1785 he presented a paper entitled Theory of the Earth to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

This was a month before Davy presented his design to the Royal Society.

* if the Governor-General is not satisfied with a legislative Bill as presented, he or she may refuse Royal Assent

He presented his ideas to Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal.

However, in 785, wary of the customs his son may have been taking in Aquitaine, Charlemagne sent for him to Aquitaine and Louis presented himself at the Royal Council of Paderborn dressed up in Basque costumes along with other youths in the same garment, which may have made a good impression in Toulouse, since the Basques of Vasconia were a mainstay of the Aquitanian army.

The film introduces Tim Curry and features Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick along with cast members from the original Kings Road production presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1973.

In April and May 2010 the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Mudlark Production Company presented a version of the play, entitled Such Tweet Sorrow, as an improvised, real-time series of tweets on Twitter.

Playfair later recalled that " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time ", and Hutton concluded a 1788 paper he presented at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later rewritten as a book, with the phrase " we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

It was originally performed by Lesley Colier and Wayne Eagling himself at an Amnesty International gala in Drury Lane, but in 1984 the Royal Ballet School presented it again at the Sadler's Wells theater.

He graduated from the Edinburgh Medical School on 2 March 1802, and was presented a full diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

He soon discovered many more binary and multiple stars than expected, and compiled them with careful measurements of their relative positions in two catalogues presented to the Royal Society in London in 1782 ( 269 double or multiple systems ) and 1784 ( 434 systems ).

During his reign Charles commissioned 24 Royal Yachts on top of the two presented to him by Dutch states on his restoration.

The etymology of the name is not totally certain, but some propose it may derive from the name of a Royal hunting lodge, the Palacio de la Zarzuela near Madrid, where, allegedly, this type of entertainment was first presented to the court.

In the UK, the opera was first presented at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 19 May 1894 with Arturo Pessina in the title role, while the US premiere was at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 4 February 1895 with Victor Maurel as Falstaff.

* Sweden: 19 May 1905, Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, presented by the Royal Swedish Opera with Maria Labia as Mimì.

The first Australian performance was presented in Sydney on 12 October 1854 at the Royal Victoria Theatre.

Amadeus was first presented at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1979, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart, and Felicity Kendal as Constanze.

For this work he was presented in 1826 with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society ( which he won again in 1836 ), and with the Lalande Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, while in 1821 the Royal Society bestowed upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their Transactions.

Christopher Wren presented the Royal Society with a design for a