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.

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

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

Cast

Alexander Campbell

Federico Bonelli

Valentino Zucchetti

Luca Acri

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

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

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

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

Cast

Lauren Cuthbertson

Matthew Ball

Marcelino Sambé

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Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.

Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.

He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.

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