0000003267 00000 n The Empress can barely bring herself to look at him: the pas de deux between mother and son is mostly back-to-back. Sarah Lamb’s Larisch is a cool schemer, concerned that her status is threatened by the Crown Prince’s marriage. Edward Watson was apprehensive about the technical challenges, though his insecurity was in tune with the character’s growing instability. Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. She’s the queen of the ‘notorious tavern’ Rudolf frequents for a bit of fun. Does this Larisch love Rudolf? 0000030803 00000 n 0000010978 00000 n Lamb is both supple and manipulative: her successor, Mary Vetsera, will supply the sensuality she lacks. Praise, too, for Meaghan Grace Hinkis’s appealing Stephanie, Kristen McNally’s imperious Elisabeth and Johannes Stepanek’s charming Bay Middleton. The Royal Ballet released three DVDs of Mayerling. As well as producing radio programmes she has contributed to television and radio documentaries about dance and dancers. Watson’s prince, however, is already so damaged that his mother’s rejection almost can’t hurt him any further. SENIOR BALLET MISTRES S SAMANTHA RAINE SENIOR BALLET MASTER GARY AVIS BALLET MISTRESS HELEN CRAWFORD ASSISTANT BALLET MISTRESS SIAN MURPHY BENESH CHOREOLOGISTS GREGORY MISLIN, MELANIE SIMPKIN McRae’s technical assurance means that he accomplishes the demanding choreography with almost too much control, until he finally disintegrates. Credited cast: Mara Galeazzi ... Mary Vetsera Edward Watson ... Crown Prince Rudolph Alexander Campbell in the role is irresistible, as a personality as well as performer. 0000012840 00000 n 0000048674 00000 n So is Lamb’s Vetsera because she’s so susceptible. 0000006687 00000 n FÆÝNð5Á-fc`¼ü ,ËÀ° À F¼ endstream endobj 266 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[7 218]/Length 30/Size 225/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream He has deteriorated from the paranoid misfit, more insectoid than human in Act II, to drug-ridden insanity by the time of the suicide pact in Act III. Premiere: 14 Feb. 1978 the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden Original Cast: David Wall (Rudolf), Lynn Seymour (Mary Vetsera) Original Designs: Nicholas Georgiadis Sources and Further Information: Mayerling is an Unexpected He gnaws at Mary Vetsera in his sex scenes with her, thrilling her with his violence. 225 43 The opening night cast of this revival was superb, with eight principal dancers in key roles and a lovely mezzo-soprano, Catherine Carby, who graced the stage in two acts alongside Christopher Saunders’ Emperor Franz Josef. 0000031672 00000 n Royal Ballet 0000028699 00000 n 0000031971 00000 n Darcey Bussell and Ore Oduba introduce Kenneth MacMillan's dark and intense ballet Mayerling from the Royal Ballet. 0000030153 00000 n She takes her revenge: when Empress Elisabeth orders her out of Rudolf’s bedroom, Kobayashi’s response is ‘You’ll see’. Though she seems sweetly excited in the duplicitous scene in her mother’s house, she’s dangerously deluded. She’s a survivor, not a victim, however badly he treats her. A long-established dance writer, Jann Parry was dance critic for The Observer from 1983 to 2004 and wrote the award-winning biography of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan: 'Different Drummer', Faber and Faber, 2009. www.roh.org.uk. Join dancers of The Royal Ballet as they rehearse their 2018/19 Season opener, Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling. The Royal Ballet MAYERLING Con un classico del repertorio del Royal Ballet, inaugura la nuova stagione della Royal Opera House al cinema trasmessa nelle sale italiane: una splendida coreografia di Kenneth MacMillan e la musica di Franz Liszt , arrangiata e orchestrata da John Lanchbery . (Click image for larger version) 0000015817 00000 n ... Maria Vetsera. In a living room near you on Saturday 13 June you can see the exclusive streaming premiere of Mayerling on Marquee TV, the global platform for dance, opera and theatre on demand. 0000048927 00000 n Do not steal our words or pictures, please. trailer <<524ACC80AA1D4A51A90B833817F080D2>]/Prev 120209/XRefStm 1390>> startxref 0 %%EOF 267 0 obj <>stream 0000000016 00000 n 0000018340 00000 n Photograph by Helen Maybanks Sarah Lamb as Mary Vetsera in Mayerling, The Royal Ballet © 2017 ROH Francesca Hayward’s Stephanie is nervous but resolute. The above list is composed of those whose work we feature regularly and have generally contributed in the last few months. Conspiracy theories that they were murdered were almost certainly false. She has written for publications including The Spectator, The Listener, About the House (Royal Opera House magazine), Dance Now, Dance Magazine (USA), Stage Bill (USA) and Dancing Times. Osipova makes the most of the luscious curves that MacMillan devised for Lynn Seymour, the originator of the role; arched over Rudolf’s knees, her legs curled towards her head, she looks like a Minoan bull dancer. He is already on the path to self-destruction, less vulnerable than in other interpreters’ accounts of the role. 0000052964 00000 n 0000009021 00000 n It is also a prized possession in The Royal Ballet’s repertoire, here enjoying its 134th performance at The Royal Opera House, since its world premiere, on 14 February 1978 (and I doubt that there could ever have been a more inappropriate ballet for Valentine’s Day). His interest in the Habsburg royal family and the demise of the Austro-Hungarian empire had been sparked by a 1974 book, The Eagles Die, by George Marek. ... Archduke Rudolf. The other women are unimportant, in vamp-to-time choreography; the brothel scene is all about the men – and Mitzi. 0000001390 00000 n Steven McRae in Mayerling. Watson has toned down Rudolf’s neurosis at the start, enabling us to appreciate its origins in his mother’s attitude to him in the following ‘closet’ scene, provoking his deterioration. DanceTabs © 2021. The fantastic dancing and acting skills of all the cast make this a memorable production. Mayerling: Kenneth MacMillan’s 1978 ballet is called Mayerling after the royal hunting lodge outside Vienna where Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary was found dead in 1889 with his teenage lover Baroness Mary Vetsera. She’s dangerous. It’s perfectly possible to relish the work of both choreographers, though Balanchine addicts can be antipathetic to a dramatic ballet that needs not only a lengthy synopsis but a pictorial guide in the programme to the principal cast and their relationships. Probably not, because she’s definitely no mother substitute. Yet Lamb reveals Mary is no innocent. hÞb``Pg``½ÌÀÀÀ¸5Ÿ01Ç!$Qu(‘,|Œ«9þqÄ1|æpfèe¯c—ç®âÜÂyŽs ƒ'ƒ7ÛaF+Æ6FoÆÌ­™íY՘2¼c”±Êf¸ÆÈÈWÆÀà9o±)Ì 225 0 obj <> endobj xref Post was not sent - check your email addresses! She understands him too well. Cast against type, Lamb and McRae give intriguing interpretations of the doomed lovers. 0000023630 00000 n 0000053003 00000 n Feel something new at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Zenaida Yanowsky provides Elisabeth with a complex palette of emotions. Claudia Bauer | Deborah Weiss | Foteini Christofilopoulou | Graham Watts | Heather Desaulniers | Jann Parry | Josephine Leask | Lauren Gallagher | Lynette Halewood | Margaret Willis | Marina Harss | Oksana Khadarina | Sara Veale | Siobhan Murphy | Susanna Sloat | Valerie Lawson | Bruce Marriott (Ed). She enjoys what she believes are sex ‘games’, offering herself as a drug, until she realises he is too far gone. MacMillan was determined to assert his intention that Mayerling was created for a big classical company, not a dance theatre ensemble, so the opening statement, a solo for Crown Prince Rudolf on the night of his wedding, is a testing one. Omar Sharif. >> Complete list of DanceTabs Contributors and more info. 0000025753 00000 n As a writer/producer she worked for the BBC World Service from 1970 to 1989, covering current affairs and the arts. Outwardly cold, unable and unwilling to respond to her son, she is warmed into womanhood by her English lover, Bay Middleton (Gary Avis, gallant and gorgeous). 0000001156 00000 n All here is copyright DanceTabs and the author concerned. Catherine Deneuve. He is at last at ease – and so is Nunez, enjoying herself without complications. She knows how to play him, not so much by sexiness as by lifting his mood. She’s high on adrenaline, while he’s dependent on morphine. The Royal Ballet Performers Conductor Koen Kessels Crown Prince Rudolf Steven McRae Baroness Mary Vetsera Sarah Lamb Princess Stephanie Meaghan Grace Hinkis Emperor Franz Joseph Gary Avis Empress Elisabeth A landmark production from the Royal Opera House in 2018, Kenneth MacMillan’s iconic ballet was a sell-out performance, but now through the platform […] The Royal Ballet’s production of Mayerling, a riveting exploration of dark obsession November 13, 2018 by Maria Di Mento Opening today in major U.S. cinemas , The Royal Ballet’s production of Kenneth MacMillan’s riveting Mayerling is not for the faint of heart. Mayerling è un balletto coreografato da Kenneth MacMillan su musica di Franz Liszt, basato sulla vita del principe ereditario Rodolfo d'Asburgo-Lorena.Il balletto venne eseguito per la prima volta dal Royal Ballet di Londra nel 1978 con David Wall nel ruolo del protagonista. 0000049223 00000 n %PDF-1.4 %âãÏÓ Mayerling is a 1936 French historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Seymour Nebenzal from a screenplay by Marcel Achard, Joseph Kessel, and Irma von Cube, based on the 1930 novel Idyll's End by Claude Anet. Mayerling was MacMillan’s fourth three-act ballet, completed after he had resigned as artistic director of the Royal Ballet in 1977. The four Hungarian conspirators have a fine time, led by Ryoichi Hirano as the finest of them all. Edward Watson as Crown Prince Rudolf and Natalia Osipova as Mary Vetsera in “Mayerling.” Photograph by Alice Pennefather courtesy of the Royal Ballet Know that roles are triple-cast, and Osipova only performs last night. Mayerling 0000001725 00000 n The Royal Ballet rehearse Mayerling - YouTube. I had never seen something so beautiful or elegant – acting, style, musicality, I fell in love with The Royal Ballet then and never looked back. She won’t give in, flinging herself back at him as he sets out to brutalise her. The choreography is impeccable being both intricate and dramatic, the way dancers move in ballet always captivated me and this production of Mayerling is no different, and while the movements are strenuous especially for Rudolf She’ll do anything to please him; she has no idea how to deal with his drug-crazed mania. 0000023404 00000 n Rudolf’s nemesis, Mary Vetsera, makes her presence felt only half-way through the ballet. The Royal Ballet discuss their thoughts on Kenneth MacMillan's intense ballet. © Alice Pennefather, courtesy the Royal Opera House. Osipova is lethally good in the role, drawing yet another piercing performance from Watson as the by-now-psychotic Crown Prince. By the third act, she is confident in her status in the court, turning feistily against Rudolf’s (ex)mistress, Marie Larisch. McRae was no longer the bouncy show-off of Rubies and a very different monster from the one in Liam Scarlett’s Frankenstein. Gallery of pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou Thank you. 0000033680 00000 n 0000033357 00000 n Vetsera is being set up by her mother (Elisabeth McGorian, elegantly complicit) and by Larisch to be a social-climbing courtesan. Osipova’s Vetsera is amoral, already sexually experienced, primed to please the Crown Prince. Ryoichi Hirano as Crown Prince Rudolf and Sarah Lamb as Marie Larisch in Mayerling, The Royal Ballet © 2018 ROH. Marianela Nunez, as yet another of Rudolf’s mistresses, Mitzi Caspar, has only a few scruples about informing on him to the Prime Minister of Austro-Hungary (Alastair Marriott). 0000006405 00000 n Based on the true story of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf and his young mistress Mary Vetsera in 1889, Steven McRae and Sarah Lamb take on these challenging roles in a dark and intense ballet. 0000003931 00000 n From Balanchine’s Jewels to MacMillan’s Mayerling: the Royal Ballet has been testing its dancers’ and audiences’ preferences this spring season. London, Royal Opera House 0000001569 00000 n A sharp eyed look at Dance & Ballet Across the World, Only Selective News Here – much more on Twitter, San Francisco Ballet – Digital Program 03: Symphony #9, Wooden Dimes (premiere), Swimmer, International Women’s Day – RB principal Sarah Lamb on working with dance legend Twyla Tharp, Dipping in to Works & Process under Covid lockdown at the Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, Kaatsbaan and more, New York City Ballet – Three Sides of Balanchine digital season: Prodigal Son, Australian Ballet – Summertime at the Ballet gala – Melbourne, Complete list of DanceTabs Contributors and more info, Royal Ballet – Mayerling (Hirano, Osipova) – London, The Royal Ballet – Jewels: Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds – London, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House – A Gala Celebration: Life Reimagined – London, Royal Ballet – 3 casts in The Dream, Symphonic Variations, Marguerite and Armand – London. 0000026182 00000 n Mayerling C: Sir Kenneth MacMillan D: Adrian Oldenburger, Flemming Puthenpurayil, Martí Fernández Paixà, Alexander Mc Gowan and Anna Osadcenko Sarah Lamb as Perdita and Steven McRae as Florizel in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, Steven McRae as Oberon, Roberta Marquez as Titania, Enrique Ngbokota as Changeling Indian Boy and Artists of the Royal Ballet in Inevitable fumbles at the start of a run added to the mounting tension built into the ballet. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. With many casts during this run, the Royal Ballet is doing MacMillan proud, coming up to the 25th anniversary of his death during the 1992 revival of Mayerling. hÞbbbd`b``Ń3Î ƒá °ÜË endstream endobj 226 0 obj <>/Metadata 5 0 R/Pages 4 0 R/StructTreeRoot 7 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 227 0 obj >/PageWidthList<0 841.89>>>>>>/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB]/Properties<>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 841.89 595.276]/Type/Page>> endobj 228 0 obj <> endobj 229 0 obj <> endobj 230 0 obj <> endobj 231 0 obj <> endobj 232 0 obj <>stream No wonder Rudolf is jealous and resentful. 0000071888 00000 n Don’t let that stop you. In the ballet, the only true mourner at Mary’s clandestine funeral is Rudolf’s jester, the cab-driver Bratfisch.