Description
The Royal Ballet: Mayerling / Kenneth MacMillan's ballet with music by Franz Liszt / ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COLLECTION
UPC 809478031017
Playtime is 127 Minutes
- Film/TV Title: Liszt - Mayerling
- Format: DVD
- Studio: Opus Arte Media Productions
- Release Year: 2008
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Run Time: 127 mins
- Genre: Musicals & Broadway, Ballet/Dance, Performing Arts
- Director: Derek Bailey
- Performer: The Royal Ballet, Viviana Durante, Darcey Bussell, Lesley Collier, Irek Mukhamedov
- Subtitle Language: French
Summary
The Royal Ballet presents a stellar cast in Kenneth MacMillan's daring and powerful ballet, filmed in 1994, with John Lanchbery's sumptuous scoring of music by Franz Liszt. The dramatic soundscape is matched by MacMillan's penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria- Hungary and his young mistress, Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling in January 1889.
"Kenneth MacMillan's choreography for this haunting tale is transcendent... stunning set and costume designs... John Lanchbery's truly remarkable score... The Royal Ballet is unbeatably good" The Times Literary Supplement
