A looming house topped with a glowing cherry has a large knife cutting through the roof as if it was a cake. Two performers sing in bright costumes as the fairytale characters Hansel and Gretel in a production at the Royal Opera House. The header reads 2024/25 Accessible Performances.

2024/25 Accessible Performances

Royal Ballet and Opera launches largest Season of Accessible Performances 

By the Royal Ballet and Opera

Wednesday 11 September 2024

This September marks the beginning of the largest ever Season of accessible performances at the Royal Ballet and Opera. We aim to meet the requirements of D/deaf, blind, partially-sighted and neurodivergent people, to ensure that world-class ballet and opera can be enjoyed by everyone.

Tickets for these accessible performances will go on sale from Tuesday 17 September 2024. We will be offering sensory adapted relaxed performances (all sensory adapted performances are also relaxed environments) as well as several audio-described, captioned, British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted performances, and supporting resources such as touch tours and visual story guides. 

Find out more about the types of accessible performances we offer on our Access page.

Join our access scheme 

Anyone with access requirements can join our free Access Scheme. The scheme offers personalised assistance throughout the booking process, ticket offers and other benefits. It also includes free companion tickets if support is required when attending a performance. 

Upcoming Accessible Performances 

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party

The Royal Ballet and ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company

12 September at 7.30pm | Touch Tour before the performance, Audio Described Performance 

14 September at 2.30pm | BSL interpreted, Captioned  

19 September at 12.30pm | Audio Described Performance 

21 September at 2.30pm | Sensory Adapted performance 

Three dancers hop forwards on a dark green stage.

La traviata

The Royal Opera

All performances will have a pre-recorded Audio Description available  

14 September at 7pm | Touch Tour before the performance

17 September at 7pm | BSL interpreted, Captioned 

A man dressed in black tie and a woman in a ballgown share an intimate moment before a kiss.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Royal Ballet

All performances will have a pre-recorded Audio Description available  

5 October at 7pm | Captioned 

8 October at 7.30pm | Captioned 

Two creatures, a man in a top hat and a girl in a purple dress dance together, holding each others shoulders.

Trouble in Tahiti / A Quiet Place

The Royal Opera

15 October at 7.30pm | BSL Interpreted, Captioned, Audio Described 

22 October at 7.30pm | Sensory Adapted performance 

A suburban street at twilight with a telegraph pole and a car in the foreground.

Ruination

The Royal Ballet and Lost Dog

7 December at 2.30pm | Captioned, Relaxed Environment performance 

12 December at 7.15pm | BSL interpreted, Captioned 

17 December at 7.15pm | Captioned 

18 December at 7.15pm | Audio Described with Touch Tour 

03 January at 7.15pm | Captioned 

A man in a pink frilly cape and a woman in a white t-shirt share an embrace.

Cinderella

The Royal Ballet

All performances will have a pre-recorded Audio Description available  

14 December at 1pm | Sensory Adapted Performance 

21 December at 7pm | Touch Tour before the performance, giving you the chance to feel and touch props and the set 

9 January at 7.30pm | Captioned 

Fumi Kaneko as Cinderella stands among flying clocks and stars.

Hansel and Gretel

The Royal Opera

All performances will have a pre-recorded Audio Description available 

4 January at 12.30pm | Sensory Adapted Performance, Audio Described with Touch Tour before the performance

07 January at 7.30pm | BSL interpreted, Captioned with a Touch Tour 

A production of Hansel and Gretel performed by The Royal Opera. As Hansel and Gretel are asleep on the forest floor, a group of fantastical characters inspired by fairy tales, including Snow White and Rapunzel, sit on a felled tree and read from a Brother's Grimm storybook.

More accessible performances will be announced throughout the Season.

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