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December 2025

Christmas Backstage at Covent Garden

The Arts Society Bowdon
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 13:45
The Bowdon Rooms
The Firs Bowdon WA14 2TQ
Online Event

A seasonal look behind the scenes of the Nutcracker at Covent Garden. 

CHRISTMAS BACKSTAGE AT COVENT GARDEN

Every year the Royal Ballet and Opera puts on a season of Christmas shows: How do they cope with magic coaches, snow bags, 17 Sugar plums, 12 Princes and the entire Lower Ballet School backstage? This talk takes you into the wings, down the traps and under the stage including as the legendary Christmas Tree of Nutcracker is moved onto its lift.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Miss Sarah Lenton

Sarah Lenton has spent her working life in the theatre: her principal employers are the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Garsington Opera. She writes programme articles, radio and play scripts, gives lectures on the operas and ballets in the rep. and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radios 3 and 4. She is also a cartoonist. All the talks listed come with audio and/or video clips. As the technology for sound reproduction is in a very fluid state, I bring reliable kit for this by car and can adapt to the Society’s technical set up as necessary.