Jobs at Royal Ballet & Opera

The Royal Ballet and Opera aims to enrich people’s lives through ballet and opera. Home to two of the world’s great artistic companies – The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet, performing with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House – we seek to be always accessible and engaging, to develop audiences across the UK and to break new ground in the presentation of lyric theatre.

We are one of the busiest theatres in the world, delivering over 400 performances and around 1,350 learning events each year, employing 1,000 permanent staff and generating a turnover of £142 million and attracting 1.5m attendances in Covent Garden and in cinemas, further extended via broadcasting, digital activity and collaboration with touring companies. Creative projects involve more than 20,000 participants in addition to which we connect tens of thousands more young people with arts and culture at our second home in Thurrock and as a ‘Bridge’ organisation in the East of England. Our digital learning resources receive millions of views. We have a central role to play in cultivating a healthy future for ballet, opera and, more broadly, the UK’s cultural ecology, and we are committed to uncovering and nurturing talent across all our work. Our many collaborators range from the London Sinfonietta, the V&A, and Opera North to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Ballet School, to international companies and theatres.