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Triple Bill - Chroma/Different Drummer/Rite of Spring
Royal Opera House, London
Sat, 2nd February 2008 - Sat, 23rd February 2008
From £*Wayne McGregor’s Chroma provides the thrilling start for an intense programme of great dance works from The Royal Ballet. Chroma was an award-winning and popular hit when it had its premiere last year. The score, drawn from compositions and arrangements by Joby Talbot and his arrangements of music by The White Stripes, is paired with stark minimalist designs by architect John Pawson – and into this comes the exciting, inventive, energy driven choreography of McGregor exploring ‘freedom from white: Chroma’. Kenneth MacMillan’s Different Drummer provides contrast on so many levels: its narrative, from Büchner’s Wozzeck, portrays an abused soldier driven to murder and suicide, while its music is from the intense and intimate sound world of Schoenberg and Webern. The third work of the programme is a blazing display for the Company and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in one of the greatest of all modern classics. Kenneth MacMillan’s 1962 ballet The Rite of Spring is a powerful interpretation of Stravinsky’s orchestral masterpiece, with its striking portrayal of pagan sacrifice of the Chosen Maiden. The Rite of Spring provides a fabulous conclusion to an evening of thrills, invention and drama. Credits Music Joby Talbot Anton Webern Arnold Schoenberg Igor Stravinsky Set Designs John Pawson Kenneth MacMillan Costume Designs Moritz Junge Yolanda Sonnabend Choreography Wayne McGregor Kenneth MacMillan Lighting Lucy Carter John B Read Designs Sidney Nolan Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan Performers Conductor Barry Wordsworth Chroma Alina Cojocaru Lauren Cuthbertson Sarah Lamb Tamara Rojo Federico Bonelli Steven McRae Eric Underwood Edward Watson Different Drummer Ivan Putrov Edward Watson Leanne Benjamin Roberta Marquez Martin Harvey Viacheslav Samodurov The Rite of Spring Tamara Rojo Mara Galeazzi
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