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Cast:
To be confirmed
Creatives:
Choreography MARIUS PETIPA, LEV IVANOV
Additional Choreography LIAM SCARLETT, FREDERICK ASHTON
Music PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Conductor KOEN KESSELS
Production LIAM SCARLETT
Designer JOHN MACFARLANE
Lighting Designer DAVID FINN
Synopsis:
Princess Odette is bound by a curse, turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. The spell can only be broken by a pledge of eternal love. When she meets Prince Siegfried, he is immediately enamoured by her fragile beauty and pledges to free her. But freedom is not promised for Odette as Von Rothbart conspires to thwart the lovers plans.
Liam Scarlett's production for The Royal Ballet brings together Tchaikovsky's towering score and John Macfarlane's picturesque designs to create an enduring ballet spectacle of love, treachery and forgiveness.
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Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
Cast:
Floria Tosca ALEKSANDRA KURZAK
Mario Cavaradossi SAIMIR PIRGU
Baron Scarpia CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN
Spoletta ALED HALL
Cesare Angelotti PAWEL HORODYSKI
Sacristan JONATHAN LEMALU
Sciarrone SAM HIRD
Creatives:
Music GIACOMO PUCCINI
Conductor DANIEL OREN
Director OLIVER MEARS
Set Designer SIMON LIMA HOLDSWORTH
Costume Designer ILONA KARAS
Lighting Designer FABIANA PICCIOLI
Movement Director ANNA MORRISSEY
Synopsis:
Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy in the form of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police. At the mercy of Scarpia's twisted desires, Tosca is forced to make a horrific bargain: sleeping with the man she hates, in order to save the man she loves. Can she find a way out?
Oliver Mears's acclaimed production returns, setting Puccini's operatic thriller in a contemporary, war-torn Rome. Daniel Oren conducts Aleksandra Kurzak, who returns to the title role, joined by Saimir Pirgu as Cavaradossi and Christopher Maltman as Baron Scarpia.
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