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From the latest gigs to upcoming sporting events we will keep you up to date with all of major and not so well known events taking place throughout the UK this year.

Marianela Nuñez & Thiago Soaresin in Kenneth MacMillan's Royal Ballet production of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. Photo by Dee Conway, courtesy of Royal Ballet

Royal Ballet - Romeo and Juliet

Kenneth MacMillan's acclaimed production of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, premièred in February 1965 with Fonteyn and Nureyev, returns to the Royal Ballet's repertoire at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Boris Gruzin conducts.

16 Feb 2010 (various dates) - Royal Opera House, London, England

Competitor at the Old Truman Brewery's annual Pancake Race, London. Photo by Nick Breckenfield, © Whatsonwhen

The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race

The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race once again finds madcap teams of pancake-flippers running up and down Dray Walk in the Old Truman Brewery. The competitors tough it out for kudos, prestige and a beautifully engraved frying pan.

16 Feb 2010 (annual) - Old Truman Brewery, London, England

Cheese Rolling in Chester. Courtesy of www.marketingprojects.co.uk

Cheese Rolling Championships

As a preview to the annual Chester Food and Drink Festival, the city hosts its famous Cheese Rolling Championships. Locals cheer on the Cheshire team as they take on their Lancashire and Stilton rivals over a creative obstacle course.

16 Feb 2010 (annual) - Chester, England

Charles Castronovo's Ferrando (disguised as Albanian Sempronio) in Jonathan Miller's Royal Opera production of Mozart's Così fan tutte. Photo by Bill Cooper, courtesy of Royal Opera

Così fan tutte at Covent Garden

Jonathan Miller's simple and stylish production of Mozart's last collaboration with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, Così fan tutte returns to Covent Garden. Julia Jones, making her Royal Opera debut, conducts.

17 Feb 2010 (various dates) - Royal Opera House, London, England

Carnival at Guanabara, London. Courtesy of Emms Publicity

Carnival at Guanabara

Home-sick Brazilians and fun-loving Londoners descend on Guanabara for its six-day Carnival. The energetic programme of events includes a full Carnival parade, free masks, face-painting, axe lessons and plenty of samba and forro to get you partying Brazilian-style.

12 - 17 Feb 2010 (annual) - Guanabara Samba Club, London, England

Anna Christy as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in David Alden's English National Opera production. © Clive Barda, courtesy of ENO

Lucia di Lammermoor at ENO

David Alden's striking English National Opera production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor returns to the London Coliseum. This first revival reunites many of the original cast: Anna Christy, Barry Banks, Clive Bayley, Sarah Pring and Dwayne Jones. Antony Walker conducts.

18 Feb 2010 (various dates) - London Coliseum, London, England

Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera. © Clive Barda, courtesy of Royal Opera

The Gambler

Music director Antonio Pappano and director Richard Jones reunite, following Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and their Ravel/Puccini double bill, for the Royal Opera's first-ever staging of Prokofiev's The Gambler.

18 Feb 2010 (various dates) - Royal Opera House, London, England

Lady Gaga. Courtesy of AEG Worldwide.

Lady Gaga

Riding high on the success of her latest album, The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga brings her stylish brand of electronic shock-pop to Manchester's MEN Arena. Expect a dazzling show, all lights and glitter, and the hits from her career to date.

18 Feb 2010 - MEN Arena (Manchester Evening News Arena), Manchester, England

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