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Mixed Programme: Dances at a Gathering / The Dream

Mixed Programme: Dances at a Gathering / The Dream
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Royal Opera House
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Royal Opera House
Bow Street
Covent Garden
London  WC2E 9DD
United Kingdom
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£18.70 - £60.50
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Wed, 28th May 2008
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Tue, 10th June 2008
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After an absence of 30 years Jerome Robbins’s great work Dances at a Gathering makes an exciting return to The Royal Ballet. To solo piano works by Chopin, ten dancers explore the potential of dance itself through shifting relationships that also reflect the moods of the music’s mazurkas, waltzes and études. With virtuoso technique and individual character at the heart of its creation, every performance of Dances by The Royal Ballet will be a unique experience to savour.

There’s a strong contrast in the second work of the programme, The Dream: with Shakespeare’s story of a midsummer’s night, Mendelssohn’s delightfully delicate music and Frederick Ashton’s ever-popular choreography. In its magic world of night and within its evocative woodland setting, Oberon and Titania play their games with the unwitting mortals, while the comic confusions of love are aggravated by the mischievous Puck.

Running time: 2hrs 35 minutes | 1 Interval

CREDITS
Music
Frédéric Chopin
Choreography
Jerome Robbins
Lighting
Jennifer Tipton
John B Read
Music
Felix Mendelssohn
Choreography
Frederick Ashton
Designs
David Walker

PERFORMERS
Conductor
Paul Murphy
Orchestra
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Dances at a Gathering
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The Dream
Leanne Benjamin
Alina Cojocaru
Roberta Marquez
Johan Kobborg
Steven McRae
Ivan Putrov
Edward Watson


The present theatre was built in 1858. During World War II it was used as a dance hall but after the war the decision was made to establish the Royal Opera House as the permanent year-round home of the opera and ballet companies now known as the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. The ballet company reopened the building on 20 February 1946 with The Sleeping Beauty. The two companies combined for Purcell's The Fairy Queen that December, and on 14 January 1947, Covent Garden Opera Company gave its first complete opera performance, Bizet's Carmen.

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Nearest Rail: Charing Cross

Nearest Tube: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line)