Macmillan Celebrated (The Royal Ballet) ROH Live

9 APRIL 2024

7.15pm – 10.30pm

Live Broadcast: Part of our 2023/24 Live Arts Series, streamed simultaneously from the Royal Opera House to our cinema screen and in full surround sound.

The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets.

Danses Concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first major work. An early sign of the incredible artistic output that would follow, the work’s critical success spurred MacMillan to abandon performing in favour of choreography. It is followed by Different Drummer, MacMillan’s complex and haunting balletic interpretation of Woyzeck, Georg Büchner’s play about a soldier’s descent into madness. The mixed programme concludes with Requiem, his 1976 work for Stuttgart Ballet, created in memory of its late artistic director, MacMillan’s friend and former Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer John Cranko.

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House – conducted by Koen Kessels

Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan

Danses Concertantes – Music: Igor Stravinsky

Different Drummer – Music: Anton Webern/ Arnold Schoenberg

Requiem – Music: Gabriel Fauré