MacMillan Triple Bill. 2010.

Watch Elite Syncopations Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCm9Iiz7xE

Watch Concerto Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgMOK6AuXC4

Watch The Judas Tree Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svi4yuJVECw

Romeo and Juliet. RB. 1984.

Watch The Performance Here:

http://youtu.be/2n4n08zvLfM

Performance of Kenneth Macmillan's ballet recorded in Covent Garden in 1984,
set to a score by Prokofiev and featuring Wayne Eagling and Alessandra Ferri as the young lovers.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet has long been one of the greatest successes in The Royal Ballet repertoire,
winning worldwide acclaim as an impassioned and thrilling view of Shakespeare's tragedy and of Prokofiev's glorious score. His sensual choreography poignantly captures the conflict between blossoming love and cankerous revenge.
Romeo and Juliet calls upon the full forces of a great company of dance-actors to present the street fights
of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in renaissance Verona, and also to convey the splendour of such scenes as
the Capulet ball. It also requires a ballerina and a premier danseur able to express the raptures and despair
that mark the young lovers' tragedy. In Alessandra Ferri and Wayne Eagling the roles are lived with tremendous
intensity, whether soaring during the balcony pas de deux or caught in the last agonizing moments in the Capulet vault.

Winter Dreams. RB. 1992.

Watch Winter Dreams Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7RT04vbII

Out Of Line: Kenneth Macmillan.

Watch Out Of Line Here:

http://youtu.be/-ncqxrYB-2U

Manon. RB. 1982.

Watch The Performance Here:

http://youtu.be/R8MJz7frX4I

Manon, brilliantly performed in this 1982 Royal Ballet production, is one of the most popular works by choreographer Kenneth Macmillan,
a 20th-century master of narrative ballet. It tells the story (also told, with variations,
in a novel and several operas) of Manon Lescaut, a beautiful young woman in 18th-century France who abandoned her true love,
the Chevalier Des Grieux, for a rich suitor's furs and jewels, suffered abuse by various men,
tried to return to Des Grieux, and died in a penal colony (Louisiana).
This stunning performance was produced under Macmillan's direction at Covent Garden,
where it usually draws capacity audiences (It is also in the repertoire of leading companies in Paris,
New York and, most recently, St. Petersburg.)
Besides those two show-business staples, sex and violence, this performance offers lyric grace in the love scenes,
pathos in the death scene, remarkable dancing and mime, narrative clarity, and vivid characterization,
not only by Jennifer Penney (Manon), Anthony Dowell (Des Grieux), and David Wall (Lescaut),
but by the entire expert supporting cast and corps.

Mayerling. RB. 1994.

Watch The Performance Here:

http://youtu.be/oZ2pUQ-FJ0k

The Royal Ballet presents a stellar cast in Kenneth MacMillan's daring and powerful ballet, filmed in 1994,
with John Lanchbery's sumptuous scoring of music by Franz Liszt.
The dramatic soundscape is matched by MacMillan's penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding
the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his young mistress,
Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling in January 1889.
Crown Prince Rudolf: Irek Mukhamedov
Baroness Mary Vetsera: Viviana Durante
Mitzi Caspar: Darcey Bussell
Countess Marie Larisch: Lesley Collier
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
The Royal Ballet
Kenneth MacMillan, choreographer
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 1 and 5 February 1994.

The Prince Of The Pagodas. RB. 1990.

Watch the performance here:

http://youtu.be/ToUA07KiRfg

Sir Kenneth MacMillan's glorious version of "The Prince Of The Pagodas" provides a fascinating
and magnificent spectacle of classical dance on the grandest scale. Benjamin Britten's exotic score,
inspired by the sounds of the Gamelan, is the only one that he created for ballet.
This production by The Royal Ballet, filmed at Covent Garden in 1990, stars Darcey Bussell
in dazzling form as Princess Rose and Jonathan Cope as the Prince.

Manon. RB. 2008.

Watch Part 1. Here:

http://youtu.be/K0XbvNeDJmw

Watch Part 2. Here:

http://youtu.be/f8ZKkDQlY6g

In this Royal Ballet production, costumes, scenery and lighting feast the eye. 

MacMillan’s genius shines everywhere, in his acute observation of character and 

traits transformed so sharply into dance. Take the evolution of the relationship 

of Manon and Des Griex. As they meet they are young and rather naïve and innocent. 

In Act 1 their dancing together, with tender ‘travelling lifts’ has the freshness 

and exhilaration of new-found love. In the next scene in their love nest, the 

intimacy and ecstasy of their dance movements leaves no doubt that they are now 

consummated lovers blissfully aware of each other’s bodies. After Des Grieux leaves, 

and her brother Lescaut and her rich admirer, G.M., come to entice her away with 

jewels and furs, the mood and movements descend to degradation as Manon abandons 

love for riches. In this amazing pas de trois, Tamara Rojo’s figures here are so 

elastic and snake-like sinuous, that one would imagine she is made of india-rubber. 

In the end Manon’s rapaciousness catches up with her and she descends through remorse 

to ruin when she is deported as a prostitute and a thief to the New World. Her final 

dance with Des Grieux with whom she has run off into the Louisiana swamps after his 

victorious duel, graphically declares her weakness and despair in Rojo’s heavier 

mournful movements. 

Cast List:

Carlos Acosta (Des Grieux)

Tamara Rojo (Manon)

José Martin (Lescaut)

Christopher Saunders (Monsieur G.M.)

Laura Morera (Lescaut’s Mistress)

Genesia Rosato (Madame)

Thomas Whitehead (The Gaoler)

Paul Kay (Beggar Chief)

Philip Mosley (Old Gentleman)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Conductor: Martin Yates

Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan