DVD – The Cellist, Dances at a Gathering / The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet of The Royal Opera House Covent Garden:

 

The Cellist – ballet by Cathy Marston on music by Philip FEENEY

                      Dancers: Lauren Cuthbertson, Marcelino Sambe, Matthew Ball

Dances at a Gathering – ballet by Jerome Robbins on music by Frederic CHOPIN

                      Dancers: Marianella Nunez, Yasmin Maghdi, Fumi Kaneko, Alexander Campbell etc

 

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

conductor Andrea Molino

 

Opus Arte, 2020

 

Internationally acclaimed choreographer Cathy Marston, previously Associate Artist of The Royal Ballet and Director of Bern Ballett, created The Cellist for The Royal Ballet in 2020. The inspiration for her first work for the Royal Opera House Main Stage is the momentous life and career of cellist Jacqueline du Pré – from her discovery of the cello and her celebrity as one of its most extraordinary players, to her pain, frustration and struggle with multiple sclerosis. Composer Philip Feeney incorporates some of the most moving and powerful music for cello by Elgar, Beethoven, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Piatti, Rachmaninoff and Schubert into an exquisite score that is itself an homage to the cello. Jerome Robbins’ elegant and elegiac classic, Dances at a Gathering, is the other work in the programme.’ pure dance for five couples, set to music by Chopin, is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention.