Mayerling

Production de 2019

• Conductor

  Martin Yates

• Music

  Franz Liszt
  (1811‑1886)

• Libretto

  Gillian Freeman

• Choreography

  Kenneth MacMillan

• Arrangements and orchestration

  John Lanchbery

• Set design

  Nicholas Georgiadis

• Costume design

  Nicholas Georgiadis

• Lighting design

  John B. Read

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

• Crown Prince Rudolf

  Hugo Marchand

• Baroness Mary Vetsera

  Dorothée Gilbert

• Countess Marie Larisch

  Hannah O'Neill

• Princess Stephanie

  Silvia Saint-Martin

• Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary

  Yann Chailloux

• Empress Elisabeth

  Laura Hecquet

• Mizzi Kaspar

  Valentine Colasante

• Bratfisch

  Marc Moreau