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Houston Ballet's 'Mayerling,' a true-crime murder-suicide ballet starring Connor Walsh, is a triumph
The first time I saw Connor Walsh dance, he was a teenager graduating from the Houston Ballet Academy, flying across the stage with mile-high jetes and a smile that radiated pure joy. Twenty years ...
Houston Ballet Principal Skylar Campbell shown here in John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream will take on the Prince Rudolf role in Mayerling. Credit: Photo by Lawrence Elizabeth Knox (2023), ...
Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling is a ballet of doomed obsession. The hero is a prince, but this historical drama couldn’t be further from fairytale: it follows Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian ...
Dangerous liaison: Natalia Osipova as Mary Vetsera and Edward Watson as Crown Prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan's 'Mayerling' at the Royal Ballet.© ROH/Alice Pennefather A piece which can provoke the ...
This repertoire has produced a stream of exceptional dance actors over the decades, some home-reared, others drawn from abroad like moths to flames by the chance to dance ballets where no archetypes ...
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Crown Prince Rudolf, the lead character in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's "Mayerling," is the meatiest role Connor Walsh has tackled in his 13 years with Houston Ballet. The antithesis of all the romantic ...
Considering all the contenders, is it heresy to name England’s Royal Ballet the finest classical company now dancing? Probably not, for the performance Friday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion made ...
With ‘Mayerling’, Kenneth MacMillan re-wrote ballet’s rule-book and created a lead role as great as Hamlet. Laura Thompson applauds the work’s return to Covent Garden. Insanely seductive: Melissa ...
Not quite ready to join the reopening of California? If the surge in coronavirus cases, the still largely closed museum landscape and other realities of our present have you looking for culture at ...
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