The Royal Opera House Cinema Season 2023/24 presents...

Macmillan Celebrated
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.

Cast and Creatives
Choreography Kenneth Macmillan
Conductor Koen Kessels

Danses Concertantes
Music Igor Stravinsky
Designer Nicholas Georgiadis
Different Drummer
Music Anton Webern/ Arnold Schoenberg
Set designs Kenneth Macmillan
Requiem
Music Gabriel Fauré
Designs Yolanda Sonnabend in association with Peter Farley

Approximate running time: about 3 hours 15 minutes, including two intervals.

This is a cinema event. Broadcast live from the Royal Opera House
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