Lunchtime Recitals
The regular free lunchtime recitals feature the rising stars of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, members of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and The Royal Opera Chorus and Southbank Sinfonia.
When to see it
A programme of classical Korean works selected by Korean Jette Parker Principal Jihoon Kim, to be performed with traditional Korean instruments and a Samullori percussion group.
Monday 9 December 2013, 1.00pm | Paul Hamlyn Hall
Please read our ticket FAQ for details
Please read our FAQ for details of day tickets, returns and tickets we don't sell online.Programme to comprise Brahms horn trio in E flat major, op.40, and Fauré Piano Quintet no. 2 in C minor, op.115.
Monday 16 December 2013, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 7 December 2013
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 7 December 2013
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 7 December 2013
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 7 December 2013
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 7 December 2013
Programme to include works by Richard Strauss, Frederico Mompou and Joaquín Turina.
Monday 6 January 2014, 1.00pm | Linbury Studio TheatreBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 28 December 2013
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 28 December 2013
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 28 December 2013
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 28 December 2013
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 28 December 2013
Booking dates
- General booking: 10am, 4 January 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 4 January 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 4 January 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 4 January 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 4 January 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: Programme to be announced.
Monday 20 January 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 11 January 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 11 January 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 11 January 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 11 January 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 11 January 2014
‘The Americans are Coming’: members of the Royal Opera Chorus present songs from American Operettas performed in London in the 1920s.
Monday 27 January 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 18 January 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 18 January 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 18 January 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 18 January 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 18 January 2014
Programme to include songs by Ravel, Debussy and Strauss.
Monday 3 February 2014, 1.00pm | Paul Hamlyn HallBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 25 January 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 25 January 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 25 January 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 25 January 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 25 January 2014
Booking dates
- General booking: 10am, 1 February 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 1 February 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 1 February 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 1 February 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 1 February 2014
Booking dates
- General booking: 10am, 8 February 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 8 February 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 8 February 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 8 February 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 8 February 2014
Programme to include the world premiere of Simon Archer Quartet no. 1.
Monday 24 February 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 15 February 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 15 February 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 15 February 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 15 February 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 15 February 2014
Members of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and guests perform a programme of works for voice, flute and piano.
Monday 3 March 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 22 February 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 22 February 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 22 February 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 22 February 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 22 February 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: Programme to be announced
Monday 10 March 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 1 March 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 1 March 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 1 March 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 1 March 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 1 March 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: Programme to be announced
Monday 17 March 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 8 March 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 8 March 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 8 March 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 8 March 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 8 March 2014
Programme to include a new commission by Martin Suckling, written especially for Matthew Rose and the Trio.
Monday 31 March 2014, 1.00pm | Paul Hamlyn HallBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 22 March 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 22 March 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 22 March 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 22 March 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 22 March 2014
Booking dates
- General booking: 10am, 29 March 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 29 March 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 29 March 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 29 March 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 29 March 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: Programme to be announced
Monday 14 April 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 9am, 5 April 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 9am, 5 April 2014
- Supporting Friends: 9am, 5 April 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 9am, 5 April 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 9am, 5 April 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: Programme to be announced
Monday 28 April 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 19 April 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 19 April 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 19 April 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 19 April 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 19 April 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: Programme to be announced
Monday 12 May 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 3 May 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 3 May 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 3 May 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 3 May 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 3 May 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: The Young Artist explores the craft of the stage director, with singers from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.
Monday 19 May 2014, 1.00pm | Paul Hamlyn HallBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 10 May 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 10 May 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 10 May 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 10 May 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 10 May 2014
Maggie Teyte Prizewinner’s Concert: A French song recital programme led by the winning soprano of this year’s Maggie Teyte competition.
Monday 2 June 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 24 May 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 24 May 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 24 May 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 24 May 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 24 May 2014
Jette Parker Young Artists Programme: Programme to be announced
Monday 9 June 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 31 May 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 31 May 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 31 May 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 31 May 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 31 May 2014
Programme to include Schnittke Piano Quintet and Bartok Contrasts.
Monday 16 June 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 7 June 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 7 June 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 7 June 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 7 June 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 7 June 2014
Booking dates
- General booking: 10am, 21 June 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 21 June 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 21 June 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 21 June 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 21 June 2014
Programme to include Barber Excursions, op.20, Beethoven Bagatellen, op.126, and works by Adler and Debussy.
Monday 7 July 2014, 1.00pm | Linbury Studio TheatreBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 28 June 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 28 June 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 28 June 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 28 June 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 28 June 2014
Members of the Royal Opera Chorus join with guest Cheryl Knight to perform numbers by Noel Coward, Cole Porter and George Gershwin.
Monday 14 July 2014, 1.00pm | Crush RoomBooking dates
- General booking: 10am, 5 July 2014
- Friends of Covent Garden: 10am, 5 July 2014
- Supporting Friends: 10am, 5 July 2014
- Premium 1 Friends: 10am, 5 July 2014
- Premium 2 Friends: 10am, 5 July 2014
News and features
See the future stars of opera perform in free lunchtime recitals
Jette Parker Young Artists among those performing in lunchtime concerts.
Background
The regular free lunchtime recitals feature the rising stars of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, members of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and The Royal Opera Chorus and Southbank Sinfonia.
Tickets for the lunchtime concerts are FREE. A proportion of tickets can be reserved online 9 days before the concert date. These must be collected from the Royal Opera House Box Office by 12.40pm on the day of the performance, after which they will be released.
The remaining tickets will be available at the Royal Opera House Box Office from 10 am on the morning of the recital. Please note that Crush Room recitals are limited to 160 tickets so please collect early to avoid disappointment.
As these are free events attracting significant interest, ticket holders may lose their seats if not present at the beginning of the concert.
Online Tickets
Please note: The online ticket allocation is limited for these performances, many tickets available on the day. Please call our Box Office on +44(0)20 7304 4000 for more information.
