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Royal Ballet - Romeo and Juliet Kenneth MacMillan's acclaimed production of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, premièred in February 1965 with Fonteyn and Nureyev, returns to the Royal Ballet's repertoire at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Boris Gruzin conducts.

Enlightenment Beethoven London's enterprising Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs a complete cycle of Beethoven's symphonies at the Southbank Centre. Regarded as one of the great musical geniuses, Beethoven, in his symphonic canon, reflected titanic changes that affected early 19th-century society.

John Adams conducts John Adams John Adams, American composer and conductor, is featured "In Focus" at the Barbican Hall this spring. He joins the London Symphony Orchestra, resident at the Barbican Hall, for two concerts including two premières.

Tamerlano at the Garden Handel's Tamerlano comes to the Royal Opera. Dutch mezzo Christianne Stotjin stars in the title role, while tenor Kurt Streit replaces an indisposed Plácido Domingo as Bajazet in all performances.

The Elixir of Love at ENO Jonathan Miller's New York City Opera production of Donizetti's frothy Elixir of Love comes to the London Coliseum for the first time. Pablo Heras-Casado makes his British opera debut in the pit.