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The Dream/Song of the Earth

Composer:
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth/Gustav Mahler
Management:
Royal Ballet
Cast:
Alina Cojocaru and Sergei Polunin/Tamara Rojo, Rupert Pennefather, Carlos Acosta
Director:
Anthony Dowell and Christopher Carr/Monica Mason and Grant Coyle
Design:
David Walker/Nicholas Georgiadis
Lighting:
John B Read
Choreography:
Frederick Ashton/Kenneth MacMillan
Run time:
2hrs 30mins

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The Royal Ballet's double bill of The Dream and Song of the Earth is a near perfect matching. Frederick Ashton's gossamer-light interpretation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy is easy to like and a pleasure to watch, although that doesn't mean it is easy to dance. By contrast, Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth is among ballet's most serious works. It's set to Mahler's eponymous song cycle and tells of the renewal of life - with the Messenger of Death always close at hand...

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Run sheet

Royal Opera House London
March 5
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