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First look: Photo album of Ballet’s Like Water For Chocolate

2 June 2022 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, The Royal Ballet ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton (1)
Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, The Royal Ballet ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton (1)

The curtain has just come down on opening night of Christopher Wheeldon's new work for The Royal Ballet. Below is a gallery of photos from yesterday's dress rehearsal (1 June 2022).

A modern Mexican classic of magic realism provides the basis for The Royal Ballet's new full-length work, Like Water For Chocolate, reuniting Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon with the creative team who transformed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter's Tale into dance: composer Joby Talbot and designer Bob Crowley.

Laura Esquivel's captivating family saga has the central character's emotions spill out through cooking to influence everyone around her in startling and dramatic ways. In this co-production with American Ballet Theatre, Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra acts as musical consultant for Talbot's newly commissioned score, with Wheeldon working closely with Esquivel to reshape her richly layered story as an entertaining and engrossing new ballet.

The opening cast features Francesca Hayward as Tita, Marcelino Sambé as Pedro, Laura Morera as Mama Elena, and Matthew Ball as Dr John Brown. Also in the photos below are Anna Rose O'Sullivan and Mayara Magri.

Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, The Royal Ballet, 2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
Marcelino Sambé as Pedro and artists of The Royal Ballet in Like Water for Chocolate, The Royal Ballet ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, The Royal Ballet ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton (3)
Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, The Royal Ballet ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton (1)
Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, The Royal Ballet ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton
01 - Francesca Hayward in Like Water for Chocolate, photo by Tristram Kenton ROH
10 - Francesca Hayward and Matthew Ball in Like Water for Chocolate, photo Tristram Kenton
05 - Anna Rose OSullivan and Cesar Corrales in Like Water for Chocolate, photo Tristram Kenton
02 - Mayara Magri and Marcelino Sambe in Like Water for Chocolate, photo by Tristram Kenton ROH
15 - Marcelino Sambe and Francesca Hayward in Like Water for Chocolate, photo Tristram Kenton
03 - Marcelino Sambe in Like Water for Chocolate, photo by Tristram Kenton
09 - Like Water For Chocolate with Marelino Sambe and Francesca Hayward, photo Tristram Kenton
14 - Like Water For Chocolate with Francesca Hayward Marcelino Sambe, photo Tristram Kenton
12 - Like Water For Chocolate Marcleino Sambe and Francesca Hayward, photo Tristram Kenton
13 - Like Water For Chocolate Marcelino Sambe and Francesca Hayward, photo Tristram Kenton
08 - Like Water For Chocolate Francesca Hayward Matthew Ball and Marcelino Sambe, photo by Tristram Kenton
04 - Like Water for Chocolate Anna Rose OSullivan, photo Tristram Kenton
11 - Laura Morera and Marcelino Sambe in Like Water for Chocolate, photo by Tristram Kenton
06 - Like Water For Chocolate Marcelino Sambe Francesca Hayward, photo Tristram Kenton
07 - Francesca Hayward Like Water for Chocolate, photo Tristram Kenton
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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.

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Filed Under: dance, photography Tagged With: Anna Rose O'Sullivan, Bob Crowley, Cesar Corrales, Christopher Wheeldon, Francesca Hayward, Laura Morera, Marcelino Sambé, Matthew Ball, Mayara Magri, Royal Ballet

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