"The year opens with the reprise of Woolf Works, Royal Ballet choreographer-in-residence Wayne McGregor's most successful three-act work to date. Joseph Sissens in Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works. The Royal Ballet. Photo: Andrej Uspenski Based on Virginia Woolf's own life and writings, with an especially commissioned score by Max Richter and an impressive collection of creatives, the multi-award-winning Woolf Works draws inspiration from three novels: Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves."
"The most Romantic of all 19th-century ballets, Giselle, returns to the stage in February. It's the story of the naive peasant girl, who dies of a broken heart when confronted with her aristocratic lover's deception. In the famous, exacting white Act II, Giselle's spirit joins the ensemble of vengeful Wilis, but not before forgiving the remorseful Albrecht. Natalia Osipova and Reece Clarke in Giselle The Royal Ballet In the long run, the Royal is offering opportunities to up-and-coming young casts,"
London’s season opens with Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, a three-act ballet inspired by Virginia Woolf’s life and three novels, featuring a Max Richter score and runs 17 January–13 February. The Royal Ballet presents Giselle from 14 February–20 March, the Romantic classic about a peasant girl who dies of a broken heart and forgives her remorseful aristocratic lover in Act II, with casts including Natalia Osipova and guest Patricio Reve. Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling returns in March, dramatizing the events leading to the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and Maria Vetsera amid Austro-Hungarian court intrigue.
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