Royal Opera House, LondonEdward Watson finds sympathy for the doomed prince while Sarah Lamb gives one of the performances of her career in MacMillan's unsparingly brutal balletMayerling is surely the richest, if not the most popular of Kenneth MacMillan's story ballets. Created in 1978, it looks and sounds like a conventionally mainstream work, with its swags of period costume and lush Liszt score. Yet as it voyages…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM on May 1, 2017