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    Mayerling DVD 2018 (The Royal Ballet)

    Mayerling DVD 2018 (The Royal Ballet)

    £24.95

    Mayerling is based on the true story of the deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf and his teenage mistress Vetsera in 1889 and is regarded among many as Kenneth MacMillan’s finest work. The large-scale crowd and court scenes show the whole Company off at its dramatic finest – but it is MacMillan’s choreography for Rudolf (Steven MacRae), one of the most technically and emotionally demanding roles in the repertory for male dancers, that makes this ballet so iconic. Rudolf’s emotional decline is charted through daring and visceral pas de deux with his mother (Kristen McNally), his wife (Meaghan Grace Hinkis) and Mary Vetsera (Sarah Lamb) – choreography that pushes classical ballet to its limits.

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    Crown Prince Rudolf: Steven McRae
    Baroness Mary Vetsera: Sarah Lamb
    Countess Marie Larisch: Laura Morera
    Empress Elisabeth: Kristen McNally
    Princess Stephanie: Meaghan Grace Hinkis
    Artists of the Royal Ballet

    Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
    Conductor: Koen Kessels
    Composer: Franz Liszt
    Arranged and orchestrated: John Lanchbery
    Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan
    Designs: Nicholas Georgiadias

    Plus: An Introduction; Darcey Bussell talks to ballet coach Leanne Benjamin; Steven McRae discusses his return from injury

    Picture: 16:9
    Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 / DTS 5.1 Surround
    Format: NTSC
    Region code: All Regions
    Duration: 133+11 mins



    "Prince Rudolf, played by the faultless Steven McRae, has some of the most demanding choreography in the ballet. McRae, however, lands each jump, finishes every pirouette, and completes the many lifts with absolute precision. It's fair to say he steals the show.    " The Londonist

    "Sarah Lamb was a revelation... in her big moments as Mary everything was totally instinctive and seductive, and Lamb was totally believable in the recklessness of her passion." Seen and Heard International

    "Nicholas Georgiadis’s brooding designs perfectly convey the claustrophobia and stifling protocol of the Austrian court, the orchestra under Koen Kessels give a plangent account of the Liszt score, and the company act up a storm." The Observer

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    Jake Watson
    Superb Production

    I saw the Royal Ballet perform Mayerling in person in 2022 - with much of the same principal cast as in the 2018 DVD recording. While nothing can best seeing a ballet performed in person, you do appreciate more of the background scenary in the Royal Ballet's film recordings, as well as how the corps de ballet fit into the production. In the case of Mayerling DVD 2018, I especially liked the attention to detail to the costumes of the Hapsburg Imperial Court during the 1880s. And, as someone who has read extensively about European royal history, I found Steven McRae's and Sarah Lamb's interpretation of the doomed Crown Prince Rudolf and Baroness Mary Versera both beguiling and affecting. I highly recommend Mayerling DVD 2018 to any fan of the Royal Ballet.

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