A Royal Ballet classic celebrates its 50^th birthday in style. Elegance, energy and grandeur - this award-winning production offers the chance to luxuriate in the contrasting characters of different precious stones.

Choreographer George Balanchine had the idea for Jewels – the first ever abstract three-act ballet – after visiting Van Cleef & Arpels in New York.

He conjures up the elegant romance of Emeralds, the jazzy exuberance of Rubies, and finally the dazzling Diamonds, which every bit as breathtaking as anything you’d see in Swan Lake. Each section salutes a different era in classical ballet’s history and a distinct location - Paris, jazz-age New York and Imperial Russia – as well as using the music of a different composer: the lyrical Gabriel Fauré, the up-tempo Igor Stravinsky, and the classical Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky.

Your prize includes two tickets to Jewels at the Royal Opera House plus an overnight stay a ibis London Shepherd’s Bush.

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Roh.org.uk/jewels