Why The Royal Ballet love performing Mayerling 

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I want to see this so badly now

Steven truly is made of titanium

When she said "Steven is made of titanium" I actually started to cry...not sure why but it took my breath away the appreciation and bond they have it's a privilege to witness

I really hope this is released on DVD, not being able to see it live or on the cinema yesterday evening is torture. Such an amazing ballet production, and story.

*mayerling was quite possibly the best piece of ballet that I have ever seen*

Mayerling was the first ballet that I ever saw. I was a teenager and read a review of it in the papers and that it was being performed at the ROH as part of the ballet proms, so a friend and I went to Covent Garden after school and joined the enormous long line of people waiting to get in. Wayne Eagling was playing the part of Rudolf that night. We were mesmerised and started to go regularly to watch ballet two or three times a week, mostly at the ROH, sometimes at Sadlers Wells or the English Coliseum. That was in 1978, I think, or maybe 79.

Watched it tonight at ROH, absolutely loved it. Feel so sorry for Rudolf that he didn’t get much love from his mother and had to look everywhere for the replacement. Steven was so amazing at portraying the desperation of Rudolf!

Intense, passionate, raw, energetic and very alive. The ballet Mayerling always surprises, and never disappoints. Very human to the core, and magnetic in attraction. The audience are at the edge of their seats with each act. One of Kenneth's best. And Pas de deux's that defy gravity. Human existence and demands that come alive on stage. What a creation, and what a Ballet choreography. Amazing artistry and technique by the Dancers of Royal Ballet. Always an immense pleasure to watch and absorb. Bravo !! 👍👍❤❤

ah sarah dances so beautifully

I want to see this so badly, it looks so raw

The Cinema Performance last month was absolutly breathtaking. I really hope the royal opera house decides to publish that recording of the ballet on DVD. The cast was brilliant and danced beautifully!

Oh well, it's Steven McRae again, and Christopher Saunders commenting...Two of my favourite people when it comes to ballet.... So then working together, the outcome has to be almost unreal !

Heartbroken I missed the streaming last night and even more so that I won't be able to see it in London any time soon :(

I hate to use stan twitter talk, but I think that I left my wig in the cinema after seeing this last night

I hope a video like this will happen for la Bayadere I would love to hear Natalia talk

I loved watching the video of them practicing for this ballet, so amazing!

This company is truly innovative. We need more of this in Ballet!

These guys are amazing together... love seeing them together 💙

An incredible performance last night. I do hope that the DVD will be released soon.

Stunning dancers. I’d love to see this performance live!

Anyone living in Dublin who missed out on the live stream can come see it in Dún Laoghaire this Saturday! It's showing at Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire at 2pm.

Quite the most wonderful ballet! Fantastic dancing from Steven McRae though the colour of his beige tights were rather distracting.

Saw this last night at ROH. My 1st ballet. Sooo, ballet are officially not my thing. The orchestra was amazing, dancers amazing.. Lovely atmosphere....

How beautiful! I am on fire !!

ghad I need to watch them dance in this!!!

So wishing I could have seen this live stream ! Will it be on sale dvd or download ?

Kenneth was my favorite choreographer. His "Manon" is why I started to dance in the first place, I would say, after I saw it premiered in 1974 at the Kennedy Center with my Mom, when I was 13. "Mayerling" premiered in early 1978 with Lynn Seymour and David Wall in the leads, around the time a man named Gary Phillips finished molesting me, when I ran away from my abusive father--the year I later turned 17, myself. Gary was someone I used to smoke, drink, and abused drugs with, as well. Mary Vetsera was only 17 when Crown Prince Rudolf shot her and himself at Mayerling, outside Vienna, Austria, where my father's side of the family was from, by chance. I didn't know Kenneth personally, then. In fact, I stopped dancing for several years, after I was molested, only going back to ballet class in 1980, after I grew jealous when a hometown girl, an acquaintance, Susan Jaffe, made good. I met Kenneth when he chose me to play a small role in his "Romeo and Juliet," at the Kennedy Center, when he set it on ABT in 1984, when I was a supernumerary. He chose and rehearsed us himself, which was unheard of--and Nicho Georgiadis fitted our costumes himself, too. I never asked Kenneth for a dance audition, though. I was too shy to, I suppose. I had just started at the University of Maryland, too, after studying ballet in Manhattan for 2 years; I was at the University of Maryland at my father's behest--and he forbade me to major in dance. Kenneth ran ABT with Misha Baryshnikov, at the time, and I didn't want to work for Misha, whose reputation as a director preceded him. He had been known to fire his former partner, Gelsey Kirkland and her partner, Patrick Bissell, for doing cocaine--though, from what I have read, Misha drank, himself, which seems hypocritical. At the time, I was still drinking, too, though I had given up illicit drugs, around that time. My favorite company was the Stuttgart Ballet, which Marcia Haydee ran like a big, happy family, back then--but Stuttgart was so far away, and I was very attached to my Mom, who lived in the DC area, at the time. As it turns out, I needed that higher education, too. Had I asked Kenneth for an audition, and had he liked my dancing, I would have dropped out of the University of Maryland, where I was a full-time undergraduate student, at the time, to work with him on ballets. And I might never have gotten into recovery, which I got into after taking women's studies classes at the graduate level at UM in early 1992--during which time I read Ellen Bass' and Laura Davis' book, "The Courage to Heal," which is a guide for women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. That book got me to come out of denial about having been sexually abused as a girl, and I started going to recovery meetings. Half a year later, I stopped smoking cigarettes, in late 1992. I believe I did that after Kenneth died of a sudden heart attack, while reviving this ballet, "Mayerling," in London with Viviana Durante and Irek Mukhamedov in the leads, that night. Three weeks later, the black, lesbian writer, Audre Lorde, died of recurring cancer, on November 17, 1992, which happened to be the biracial writer's and activist's, Rebecca Walker's, 23rd birthday. Her mother, Alice Walker, of whose work I was particularly enamored, wrote the essay, "My Daughter Smokes," years before, which got Rebecca to stop smoking, when she was still in grade school. I believe I read that essay--as I read all of Alice's work, back then, over a period of years--before I stopped smoking, myself. My unofficial smoking cessation date is, in fact, November 17, 1992, since I am not entirely sure when I stopped smoking--though I kept a daily diary, back then, and if I was really assiduous, I could read through the hundreds of diaries I have kept to see if I wrote of my last cigarette in there. Both Kenneth and Audre smoked, from what I have seen and read. I also stopped regular dance class when Kenneth died. I guess, at heart, I was always "his" dancer, though he never knew that. And in late 1993, about a year after I stopped smoking cigarettes, I got clean and sober, though that is another story altogether.

I watched the pre general rehursal for free and i would of watched it again

Is this going to be for sale on DVD?

Mayerling is the Hamlet of ballet

これが1番の名演と言っても過言ではない

What's the Liszt piece playing when the legendary Leanne Benjamin talks about the ballet and Steven and Sarah are doing a pas de deux?

Honestly Prince Rudolf & Mary Vetsera kind of reminds me of Hades & Persephone a little bit

I don’t know why other people’s love stories are so completely unrelatable to me 😇

¿Cuándo en Colombia? 🤗🤗

I don’t want to see a ballet, I want to see the movie with Omar Sharif and Catherine Genevieve. Heck with the ballet.

I have no clue how i came across this video but uh 0:42 is my uncle and now im confused

The real story of Mayerling by austrian people is that was a plot,Rudolf and Maria killed secret services..no suicide..very sad love and story❤❤

.....loves********

Ενα πολυ ενδιαφερον αφιερωμα στην παρασταση κλασσικου μαπλετου"Μαγιερλινγκ",απο τα Βασιλικα Μπαλετα του Λονδινου εστω και αν αυτο το αφιερωμα καρταει μονο...5 λεπτα.Οι χορογραφιες ειναι του διασημου Σκοτσεζου χορογραφου Κενεθ Μακ Μιλλαν,που εχει δημιουργησει την συγχρονη χορευτικη παρασταση"Η Ιεροτελεστια της Ανοιξης".Αυτη παρασταση δημιουργηθηκε το 1978.Μου αρεσει που τα σκηνικα της συγκεκριμενης παραστασης,τα φτιαχνει ενας Ελληνας,ο οποιος φυσικα εχει μεγαλη αγαπη για το κλασσικο μπαλετο.Απο το αφιερωμα αυτο,καταλαβα οτι αξιζει τον κοπο να το παρακολουθησουμε....

Edward Watson will always be the best Rudolf!

I wish he could be taller so his dance could be more impressive.