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New on YouTube. Official Dance Europe channel link. Film clips by courtesy: Romeo and Juliet The Royal Ballet Mayerling English National Ballet Song of the Earth Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris Manon Stuttgart Ballet Mayerling Mayerling Hungarian National Ballet Interview filmed at the Royal Opera House, London With thanks to The Royal Ballet Press Office Filmed and Edited by Emma Kauldhar A Dance Europe Film ©2023

I appreciate that there is a separate thread but as that just relates to seating, and as the run of Mayerling starts soon I thought I ought to start one. First, some cast changes just announced - Please be aware that the following cast changes have been made: WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER, 7.30PM: Christina Arestis is replaced by Itziar Mendizabal as Empress Elisabeth. FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER, 7.30PM: Kristen McNally is replaced by Annette Buvoli as Empress Elisabeth. Leticia Dias is replaced by Mayara Magri as Mitzi Caspar. THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER, 7.30PM: Christina Arestis is replaced by Itziar Mendizabal as Empress Elisabeth. SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER, 1 PM: Kristen McNally is replaced by Annette Buvoli as Empress Elisabeth. Leticia Dias is replaced by Mayara Magri as Mitzi Caspar. SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER, 7PM: Christina Arestis is replaced by Itziar Mendizabal as Empress Elisabeth. FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER, 7.30PM: Lauren Cuthbertson is replaced by Yasmine Naghdi as Mary Vetsera. Meaghan Grace Hinkis is replaced by Isabella Gasparini as Princess Stephanie. FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER, 7.30PM: Lauren Cuthbertson is replaced by Yasmine Naghdi as Mary Vetsera. Meaghan Grace Hinkis is replaced by Isabella Gasparini as Princess Stephanie.

Spare mayerling stalls circle standing d5 cost £12 Anyone interested please dm me asap Cast McRae takada nagdhi Thanks Jules

I'm sure many of us would be interested in Forum members' reports on/impressions of the Paris production 🙏 I know if I were in Europe right now I'd be doing my best to ensure I saw at least one performance by every cast in both London and Paris...and I'm reading with such admiration and envy the reports of Vadim Muntagirov as Rudolf.

due to a schedule clash i am looking to re-home these tickets. prime standing places SCS D31 & D32. £12 each. these are matinee tickets. 12.30 start. DM & leave a message if interested.

Looking for a spare SCS for Wed 23 November Thank you!

Fabulous insight event (“Ballet Talk”) this morning about the forthcoming premiere of Mayerling with Stuttgart Ballet. Tamas Detrich spoke about why he chose to add Mayerling to the repertoire in Stuttgart – he’d seen the work performed by the Stanislavsky Ballet and was “blown away” by it, thought that the dramatic narrative would work well in Stuttgart with its history of three-act story ballets by John Cranko, and had been looking to get Juergen Rose involved. Gerald Dowler talked about the creation of the work for the Royal Ballet in 1978 and its reception – in London and elsewhere - over time as well as about recurring focus areas in Kenneth MacMillan’s works. This was really useful to refresh my memory since I last saw Mayerling at the ROH but more importantly his description of MacMillan’s choreographic style made me think that I should really really really really go for a ticket for Mayerling as vivid images came to mind from a number of scenes throughout the ballet. I was probably sitting there with a permanent grin on my face throughout the event. Mikhail Agrest, guest conductor with Stuttgart Ballet, described Lanchbery’s choice of music by Franz Liszt for Mayerling - theatrical, romantic, sweeping, music with a Hungarian touch, and he referred to a piece that Franz Liszt had written for Empress Elisabeth. Juergen Rose gave a humorous account of how he needed convincing that he should take on the costume & set design for Mayerling and highlighted how instrumental Marcia Haydee was in ultimately achieving this. Equally entertaining was his description of the challenges that he encountered and the solutions that he identified with regards to the sourcing of the set as well as of the fabric for the costumes. So the carriage that they located in Styria is from the 1880s, and the furniture that they unearthed in an antiquity shop near Munich is from that time period, too. As for the costumes, he went with different colours for different roles so as to facilitate the identification of who is who within the ballet. The costume designs for the hunt scene in Act 3 have been inspired by pictures of Emperor Franz Joseph in lederhosen, and so some dancers wear lederhosen during that scene. Tamas Detrich confirmed that there’ll be further performances of Mayerling next season. There is also an insight event planned for the end of the current season which will deal specifically with Rose’s costumes. Rehearsal pictures on the company’s web site https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/schedule/a-z/mayerling/

I searched for a thread on this but didn’t find one. From his Insta postings it would seem that RB Principal Ryoichi Hirano is guesting as Prince Rudolph in several locations including Glasgow, Inverness & Aberdeen. Lucky Scotland.

The Stuttgart production with new sets and costumes by Jürgen Rose will be online for 24 hours from April 11th, 18.00 CET to April 12th, 18.00 CET on Stuttgart Ballet's Youtube Chanel https://www.youtube.com/c/dasstuttgarterballett The cast is the premiere cast at Stuttgart, with Friedemann Vogel (Rudolf), Elisa Badenes (Mary), Miriam Kacerova (Elisabeth), Alicia Amatriain (Larisch), Diana Ionescu (Stephanie), Anna Osadcenko (Mizzi), Marcia Haydée (Sophie) and Egon Madsen (Franz Josef).

Well, it will soon be time for my Mayerling fix (!) and I have tickets for all three Watsons. But I would like to see somebody else and seem to remember forum members raving about Bonelli and Morera. Am I right? Oh, and does anyone know if Ed Watson is fit again??????????

For sale: Mayerling Sat 13 Oct 7pm, Upper Amphitheater P-55, 20£ This is an e-ticket. Payment of £20 by PayPal please - I will email details to you following contact via PM here.

Looking for a ticket for Monday morning’s rehearsal if anyone is looking to sell one. Thank you.

Anyone else can't wait till Friday? I am so excited.

Foteini Christofilopoulou was at the dress rehearsal of the opening night cast (opens on 28th April). Here are a few photos: Francesca Hayward, Edward Watson © Foteini Christofilopoulou. Courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Sarah Lamb, Zenaida Yanowsky © Foteini Christofilopoulou. Courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Edward Watson, Natalia Osipova © Foteini Christofilopoulou. Courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr See more... Set from DanceTabs - RB: Mayerling Courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr By kind permission of the Royal Opera House

3 tickets for sale on the front row of Balcony right. MAYERLING Satyrday 29th April Soares/ Cuthbertson 7pm Main Stage Balcony Right A74, A75, A76 face value £36 but will accept £25 per ticket if all 3 are taken. If just 2 are taken £60 for the pair. if interested please PM me by Wednesday. Many thanks

I have a pair of amphitheatre tickets available for this date - happy to sell as a pair or individual tickets and can send out by post. Mayerling, 7.15pm Thursday 4th May Cuthbertson/Soares Amphitheatre Left E47 and E48 £61 each face value Please PM me if interested

Later on today sees the start of an extended run (over 2 booking periods) of the Royal Ballet's Mayerling. Thoughts and comments here, please.

I only recently read that Mayerling was originally to have been created on Anthony Dowell, but I think he was injured or something, so it fell to David Wall instead. Tonight I found myself wondering how different the ballet would have been if it had been created on Dowell - I can't quite imagine it, somehow. Did any of our longer-standing readers actually see him dance the role?

Here is the link to the list of big screens across the country which will be showing the live transmission of Mayerling on 13th June (already sold out): http://www.roh.org.uk/about/bp-big-screens The link also contains details of the Royal Opera performances of Tosca and La Rondine.