Cirque du Soleil's 'Corteo' to open at Royal Albert Hall in 2025

Since its premiere in Montreal in 2005, Corteo has played to over 11 million spectators, in 22 countries, on four continents. It opens at the Royal Albert Hall next year.

Cirque du Soleil will return to the Royal Albert Hall next year with a production of Corteo. Performances will begin on 9 January.

Corteo, which means "procession" in Italian, will follow the clown Mauro as he imagines his own funeral playing out in a carnival atmosphere, with his fellow circus performers in attendance.

The Royal Albert Hall will be reconfigured to house this production, with a stage that splits the hall into two halves and each half of the audience facing the other.

Since its premiere in Montreal in 2005, Corteo has played to over 11 million spectators, in 22 countries, on four continents.

Duncan Fisher, President - Touring Shows of Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, said: “We are thrilled to finally bring Corteo to the Royal Albert Hall. We are very grateful for the collaboration of the Hall’s management team and their members for enabling the presentation of this extremely unique production.

"The extraordinary work that has gone into splitting the Royal Albert Hall in two halves will allow our audiences to experience one of our best loved productions as it was originally imagined. We cannot wait to present Cirque du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall as it has never been seen before.”

Matt Todd, Director of Programming for the Royal Albert Hall, added: “This is our 29th year welcoming Cirque du Soleil to the Royal Albert Hall, and this is the first time that we have been able to reconfigure the Hall like this, dramatically and uniquely changing the whole perspective within the auditorium. It is wonderful for the Hall to be used in this way and will without doubt be one of Cirque du Soleil’s most extraordinary performances.” 

Cirque du Soleil presented its 30th anniversary production of Alegria at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year.

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Photo credit: Corteo in 2022. (Photo by MajaPrgomet)