News: Birmingham Royal Ballet - Lachlan Monaghan and Max Maslen promoted to principal dancer

[Jan McNulty]

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Promotions Announcement   Following the opening of our Birmingham Swan Lake season, our Director, Carlos Acosta, has today announced the promotion of First Soloists Max Maslen and Lachlan Monaghan to Principal from the beginning of next season.

Max Maslen © Johan Persson   Born in Bradford, Max trained at Nydza School of Dance and Central School of Ballet. He joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2012; was promoted to First Artist in 2016, Soloist in 2018 and First Soloist in 2022.  Lachlan Monaghan © Johan Persson Born in Sydney, Australia,Lachlan trained at McDonald College, Sydney, and The Royal Ballet School. He joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2012; was promoted to First Artist in 2016, Soloist in 2018 and First Soloist in 2022.

I'm sure you'll join us in congratulating them both on this news and we hope that you will come to see them perform in the near future.

[Lindsay]

What lovely news - thanks Janet.  Especially exciting as I’m taking my niece to her first Swan Lake tomorrow afternoon and see that Max is dancing.  My first time at this production and very interested to see it

[Tango Dancer]

How lovely.  I thought Max was superb in the Evening of Music and Dance last weekend.  He did a variation from Rhapsody with Beatrice Parma and it was some of the most supportive and responsive partnering I've seen in a long time.  He really seems to get how to respond to the music and the woman he's with to get the best from both.  I thought he was a really sensitive and mature dancer. 

 

Lachlan was also great in that, doing a lovely pas de deux from Carmen.  He's really attractive and charismatic.  

Edited February 17, 2023 by Tango Dancer

[Dawnstar]

I'm very pleased to hear of Monaghan's promotion. I really liked him in Hobson's Choice in 2019, tried too see him in the Nutcracker later that year but unfortunately there was a cast change, and finally managed to see him again in Don Quixote last summer in which I also thought he was excellent. I'll certainly be booking to see him again in the future if I can. (Maslen I've not seen in any significant roles, having only seen BRB the 3 times in recent years, so I'm afraid I can't say anything about him.)

[Two Pigeons]

Two excellent and very well deserved choices.

[Chiari]

Congratulations to them both!! ☺