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Mayerling
Mayerling chronicles the lead-up to the mysterious death of a real-life heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Operated by The Society of London Theatre
Mayerling
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, LondonPrinces don't always get happy endings. Mayerling is a very adult ballet which chronicles the lead-up to the mysterious death of a real-life heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Kenneth MacMillan's ballet achieves a nervous balance between sprawling grandiosity and choreographic invention, beginning with the pomp of a royal wedding for Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, before plunging into a sordid world of degenerate depravity where sex is both a weapon and a last resort. Rudolf's bride - a cousin he neither knows nor loves - her sister, his mistress and his mother are all tangled up in his obsessions.
Mayerling compresses the final eight years of Rudolf's life into a relentless downward spiral of political intrigue, drugs and murder.
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cast: Prince Rudolf: Carlos Acosta / Thiago Soares / Rupert Pennefather / Johan Kobborg / Edward Watson; Mary Vetsera: Tamara Rojo/ Lauren Cuthbertson / Melissa Hamilton / Leanne Benjamin / Mara Galeazzi; Countess Larisch: Marianela Nunez / Mara Galeazzi / Laura Morera / Sarah Lamb
music by: Franz Liszt
lighting designer: John B Read
conductor: Martin Yates / Barry Wordsworth
choreographer: Kenneth MacMillan
designer: Nicholas Georgiadis
producer: Royal Ballet
Ticket Prices:
£5-£94
About the show
- Genre: Dance
- Show Times: 19:30
- Duration: 2h 55
- opening night:
- Box Office:
020 7304 4000
Venue InformationHIDE
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2E 9DD
- Nearest tube: Covent Garden (120m) Leicester Square (approx. 500m)
- Nearest bus: 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 68, 76, 77a, 91, 168, 171, 176, 188, 501(southbound only), 505, 521, X68 all go to the Aldwych.
- Parking: NCP at Drury Lane and Shelton Street. 4 spaces for blue badge holders on Floral Street and 3 on Bow Street. Taxi lay-by outside theatre on Bow Street or taxi rank at Covent Garden Piazza end of Russell Street.
- Air conditioned: 1
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- How to book: Tel: 020 7304 4000 Fax: 020 7212 9460 Minicom: 020 7212 9228
- Telephones: Accessible cash telephone by the lifts and in amphitheatre lobby.
- Discounts: Half price tickets available for all disabled theatregoers and their companions provided you are on the access list – to join please call the above numbers.
- Limited mobility: Aisle seats and boxes have the best leg room.
- Access description: Fixed ramps at Bow Street (push button to open doors) and Piazza entrances. Box Office and Information point (with lowered service counters) to right of Bow Street entrance. 5 lifts (Braille buttons and voice announcements) to all levels, beyond the Box Office and cloakroom. There are 27 steps down to the Linbury Studio reachable via a slight ramp. In main auditorium, 15 steps up from ground level to the Stalls Circle. Then 15 steps up to Grand Tier, 21 to Balcony, further 15 to Lower Slips, 30 to Amphitheatre and 56 to Upper Amphitheatre. 1 step between each row in Stalls Circle and Grand Tier and Balcony, 3 in Amphitheatre (fairly steep). All staircases have handrails and some steps are highlighted. Escalator from Floral Hall to Amphitheatre.
- Hearing impaired: Infrared system with 20 headsets. Collect headsets from FOH Duty Manager’s Desk in main foyer. Surtitles for all opera productions.
- Guide dogs policy: Guide dogs allowed into auditorium and staff available to dog-sit if required.
- Wheelchairs: Spaces for wheelchair users at Stalls Circle (6 spaces), Grand Tier (4 spaces), Balcony (6 spaces), Upper Amphitheatre (3 spaces). Express lift too small for motorised wheelchairs/scooters, but other lifts are fine. Wheelchair and scooter transfer seating available, wheelchairs/scooters stored in cloakroom.
- Toilets: Men’s and women’s at Stalls Circle and Amphitheatre levels and in Vilar Floral Hall.
- Disabled toilets: Adapted toilets by lifts at all levels. Non-adapted toilets have some cubicles with wider doors and hand rails (marked on door).
- Bars: Lift to Amphitheatre bar and restaurant, and Floral Hall and Terrace cafes (low counters, moveable seats and tables).