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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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Death, desire and desperation drive a ballet that delves into the darkness of human emotion Opening the Royal Ballet’s new season, Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling is an uncompromising tale of death and ...

In the Royal Ballet’s superb revival of Mayerling, Edward Watson and Natalia Osipova don’t so much goad each other to greater heights as to darker depths. As Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress Mary ...

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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 ...

On the face of it, Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling is not attractive. How could a melodrama about a drug-addicted, syphilitic, sadistic and self-pitying man, surrounded by frigid or crazed women - even ...