The House: Inside the Royal Opera House

by Kate Mosse

Accompanying a BBC television series, this is a narrative record of life behind the scenes and on the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It focuses on performances throughout 1993 and 1994, including "Die Meistersinger" with its cast of over 250, Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty", the spectacular epic "Aida", and riskier projects such as the ballet "Fanfare", and Trevor Nunn's "Katya Kabanova". The book also looks at the dancers, technicians, musicians, singers and administrators who worked to create these productions.

Hardcover

First published October 26, 1995

About the author

Kate Mosse is an international bestselling author with sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages. Her fiction includes the novels Labyrinth (2005), Sepulchre (2007), The Winter Ghosts (2009), and Citadel (2012), as well as an acclaimed collection of short stories, The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales (2013). Kate’s new novel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter is out now.
Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. She lives in Sussex.