Welcome to the Royal Opera House Season 2025/2026, these presentations are LIVE STREAMED EVENTS, with intervals, starring some of the world’s top performers. They are also recorded for venues such as The Rhumbelow Theatre and we are proud to bring you this series of Cinema experiences, as we endeavour to provide entertainment to appeal to everyone.

The Royal Ballet presents Wayne McGregor’s acclaimed ballet Woolf Works broadcast live to cinemas on 9th February 2026.

Wayne McGregor’s acclaimed triptych Woolf Works will be broadcast live to cinemas on Monday 9 February 2026. Royal Ballet Principal dancer Natalia Osipova will perform the role of Clarissa / Virgina Woolf in the cinema
Receiving its premiere in 2015, Woolf Works was McGregor’s first full-length work for The Royal Ballet and subsequently won both the 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and the 2015 Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Classical Choreography.


Woolf Works recreates the emotions, themes and fluid style of three of Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novels - Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves - as well as elements of her autobiographical writings that echo aspects of her eventful life. With dramaturgy by Uzma Hameed, the ballet is presented as a series of multi-sensory collages, utilising designs from McGregor, Ciguë, and We Not I alongside lighting design by Lucy Carter, film design by Ravi Deepres, costumes by Moritz Junge and make-up design by Kabuki.


The performance is set to a specially commissioned score from Max Richter, who combines classical and electronic sounds together with spoken word to create an atmospheric soundscape for the work. This soundscape features a

rare recording of Woolf reading her essay “On Craftmanship”, and a recording of actress Gillian Anderson reading Woolf’s haunting suicide note.

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