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BALLET - Mayerling (G) 145 mins
Opening:16 September 2010
Genre:Music
Director:Kenneth MacMillan
Cast:Royal Ballet with Edward Watson
Distributor:Palace
Synopsis:
From the outset, choreographer Kenneth MacMillan pushed ballet beyond the boundaries of fairytale kingdoms. Nowhere is this more compellingly successful than in MAYERLING. It achieves a nervous balance between sprawling grandiosity and choreographic invention, beginning with the pomp of a royal wedding for Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. MacMillan immediately plunges us into a sordid world of degenerate depravity where sex is both a weapon and a last resort. Rudolf's bride (a cousin he neither knows nor loves), her sister, his mistress and his mother are all tangled up in his obsessions.
The ballet compresses the final eight years of Rudolf's life into a relentless downward spiral of political intrigue, drugs and murder. It culminates in 1889 with the suicide pact at the hunting lodge known as Mayerling between Rudolf and his 17-year-old mistress, the fervidly neurotic Mary Vetsera.
Music: Franz Liszt - Conductor: Barry Wordsmith & Martin Yates
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ADULT $27 - CONCESSION $24 - SENIOR $22 - CHILD $15
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MAYERLING (Royal Ballet)
Thursday, September 16th 11am / Sunday, August 19th 1pm
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