ROH Live: MacMillan Celebrated

Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan

Danses Concertantes
Music: Igor Stravinsky | Designer: Nicholas Georgiadis
Lighting Designer: John B. Read | Cast: TBC

Different Drummer
Music: Anton Webern/ Arnold Schoenberg | Set designs: Kenneth Macmillan
Costume designs: Yolanda Sonnabend in association with Peter Farley | Lighting design: John B. Read
Cast: TBC

Requiem
Music: Gabriel Fauré | Designs: Yolanda Sonnabend in association with Peter Farley
Lighting design: John B. Read | Cast: TBC
Conductor: Koen Kessels

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

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.