A behind-the-scenes video from the Royal Opera House offers a close look at the costume maintenance work that keeps MAYERLING stage-ready, focusing on the men's wardrobe and the challenges posed by ...

In the end there were flowers covering the stage, raining down from the balcony boxes, bouquets piled as high as a barricade. Alina Cojocaru, alternating between heaving sobs and broad smiles, ...

Death, desire and desperation drive a ballet that delves into the darkness of human emotion Opening the Royal Ballet’s new season, Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling is an uncompromising tale of death and ...

There are good nights at the ballet, there are bad nights at the ballet. And there are nights that you will remember for the rest of your life. The opening of the Royal Ballet’s revival of Kenneth ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Royal Ballet season opened on Wednesday night with a performance of Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling. Appropriately ...