Photo Album: Royal Ballet first night with Dances at a Gathering and The Cellist

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The Cellist. Marcelino Sambe and Lauren Cuthbertson. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper. (6) — The Cellist. Marcelino Sambe and Lauren Cuthbertson. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper.

First photos of tonight's opening of a new double bill at The Royal Opera House with Jerome Robbins's Dances at a Gathering and Cathy Marston's The Cellist.

Dances at a Gathering

Jerome Robbins's elegant and elegiac classic forms the first part of the programme. This exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to music by Chopin, is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention.

Choreography Jerome Robbins

Music Fryderyk Chopin

Costume designer Joe Eula

Dances at a Gathering. Federico Bonelli and Marianela Nunez. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper.

Cast

Marianela Nuñez

Francesca Hayward

Yasmine Naghdi

Fumi Kaneko

Laura Morera

Alexander Campbell

William Bracewell

Federico Bonelli

Valentino Zucchetti

Luca Acri

Dances at a Gathering. Artists of The Royal Ballet Ballet. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper.

The Cellist

Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and is much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Royal Ballet Main Stage is the momentous life and career of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

Choreography Cathy Marston

Scenario Cathy Marston and Edward Kemp

Music Philip Feeney

Set designer Hildegard Bechtler

Costume designer Bregje van Balen

Lighting designer Jon Clark

Cast

Lauren Cuthbertson

Matthew Ball

Marcelino Sambé

The Cellist. Marcelino Sambe and Lauren Cuthbertson. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper.

The Cellist. Marcelino Sambe. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper. (5)

The Cellist. Marcelino Sambe and Lauren Cuthbertson. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper. (5)

The Cellist. Marcelino Sambe. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper. (7)

The Cellist. Marcelino Sambe and Lauren Cuthbertson. ©ROH, 2020. Photographed by Bill Cooper. (7)

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.