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Mayerling
Palais Garnier
19h30
Dress Cocktail attire
First performed in 1978 by the Royal Ballet in London, Mayerling, along with L’Histoire de Manon, is Kenneth MacMillan’s most famous ballet. For this vast, three‑act fresco, the British choreographer drew inspiration from an historic event: the suicide of the archduke Rodolphe, heir to the Austrian throne, in the company of his mistress, the baroness Marie Vetsera, in a hunting lodge in Mayerling, near Vienna, in 1889. What could have driven the son of the emperor Franz‑Joseph I and Sissi to such an act? Kenneth MacMillan unpicks the social, political and personal pressures at work, alternating between the grandiose and the intimate. Underpinned by the romantic music of Franz Liszt, his highly virtuoso choreography, providing some of the most demanding male roles in the repertoire, portrays in masterly fashion the emotions of characters ill‑used by history.
Mayerling
Production de 2019
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Music
Franz Liszt
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ConductorMartin Yates
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Libretto
Gillian Freeman
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Choreography
Kenneth MacMillan
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Arrangements and orchestration
John Lanchbery
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Set design
Nicholas Georgiadis
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Costume design
Nicholas Georgiadis
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Lighting design
John B. Read
Cast
Marchand
Crown Prince Rudolf
Gilbert
Baroness Mary Vetsera
O'Neill
Countess Marie Larisch
Saint-Martin
Princess Stephanie
Chailloux
Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary
Hecquet
Empress Elisabeth
Colasante
Mizzi Kaspar
Moreau
Bratfisch