Paris Opera Ballet: a superlative Mayerling

Hugo Marchand as Crown Prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling

Dorothée Gilbert as Mary Vetsera and Hugo Marchand as Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling

Pablo Legasa as Bratfisch in Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling

Dorothée Gilbert as Mary Vetsera and Hugo Marchand as Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling

Hugo Marchand as Crown Prince Rudolf and Dorothée Gilbert as Mary Vetsera in Mayerling

By Naomi Mori, 13 November 2024

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“The two poured everything they had into the final pas de deux and left the audience breathless”

Reviewed at Opéra national de Paris: Palais Garnier, Paris on 6 November 2024

Mayerling (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

Martin Yates, Conductor

Nicholas Georgiadis, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Jacopo Pantani, Lighting Designer

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

Dorothée Gilbert, Dancer

Hugo Marchand, Dancer

Hannah O'Neill, Dancer

Pablo Legasa, Dancer

Roxane Stojanov, Dancer

Héloïse Bourdon, Dancer

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Naomi Mori

Naomi is a blogger living in Tokyo and travels frequently to see ballet. She is a law graduate of Waseda University and a former film publicist, film critic and IT business researcher/strategist. She blogs at La Dolce Vita in Japanese. She tweets about ballet as @naomip_86. and takes ballet class regularly