Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan's dark tale of dangerous obsession, returns to the Royal Opera House to open The Royal Ballet's 2022/23 season. Based on the true story of the murder-suicide scandal that ...
Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling is a ballet of doomed obsession. The hero is a prince, but this historical drama couldn’t be further from fairytale: it follows Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian ...
When Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling premiered in 1978 it was “revolutionary”, said Sarah Crompton in The Observer – taking ballet into hitherto unexplored realms of “psychosis and misery”. It is based ...
Crown Prince Rudolf, the lead character in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's "Mayerling," is the meatiest role Connor Walsh has tackled in his 13 years with Houston Ballet. The antithesis of all the romantic ...
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling is a three-act narrative ballet, set to John Lanchbery’s powerful arrangement of Franz Liszt compositions, based on the historic 1889 incident involving the ...
Houston Ballet's 'Mayerling,' a true-crime murder-suicide ballet starring Connor Walsh, is a triumph
The first time I saw Connor Walsh dance, he was a teenager graduating from the Houston Ballet Academy, flying across the stage with mile-high jetes and a smile that radiated pure joy. Twenty years ...
Full-throttle performances give MacMillan’s brutal ballet a mighty punch Kenneth MacMillan’s 1978 work is ferocious – sex, power, madness, death and venereal disease are all thrown into the mix as we ...
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