{"id":55537,"date":"2023-01-11T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=55537"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:25:53","slug":"macmillans-mayerling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/macmillans-mayerling\/","title":{"rendered":"MacMillans Mayerling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Compelling, dark, spectacular<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0by Alessandro Bizzotto<\/em><\/p>\n

2023 will mark the forty-fifth anniversary of the creation of Kenneth MacMillan\u2019s masterpiece.<\/strong>\u00a0 Alessandro Bizzotto <\/strong>saw<\/strong> it in Stuttgart and in Paris,<\/strong> \u00a0<\/strong>and discussed the roles of<\/strong> Crown Prince Rudolph and Mary Vetsera with four interpreters: <\/strong>Elisa<\/strong> Badenes<\/strong> and<\/strong> Friedemann<\/strong> Vogel<\/strong> at the Stuttgart Ballet, and<\/strong> Hannah O\u2019Neill<\/strong> and<\/strong> St\u00e9phane Bullion<\/strong> at the Paris Opera Ballet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hannah O’Neill and St\u00e9phane Bullion in ‘Mayerling’ \u00a9 Ann Ray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Watching MacMillan\u2019s Mayerling<\/em> is always a thrill. I never leave the theatre motionally wrung out – that\u2019s strange, but the ballet charges me in some way. It was created in 1978, but it still retains its charm and its explosive power, and it keeps intact its freshness and astonishing intensity. It is entred on Crown Prince Rudolf, Sissi and Franz Joseph’s son, who killed himself with his 17-year-old lover Mary Vetsera in the hunting lodge of Mayerling, in 1889.<\/p>\n

I first saw it at the Royal Opera House. Leanne Benjamin was Mary Vetsera. It was a real stroke of lightning. Several companies staged Mayerling<\/em> this year, thirty years after Kenneth MacMillan passed away because of a heart attack at the Royal Opera House during a performance of this ballet. Rediscovering it in Stuttgart last summer, three years after the 2019 premi\u00e8re, was a pleasure. J\u00fcrgen Rose\u2019s new sets and costumes are smashing. Attending a couple of performances in Paris, then, was a new occasion to find out new sides of this ballet, which entered the Paris Opera Ballet’s repertoire last October.<\/p>\n

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