[Photo Album] World premiere Black Sabbath – The Ballet

Saturday 23 September 2023, Birmingham Hippodrome
world premiere

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Black Sabbath – The Ballet

Director Carlos Acosta
Original Music Black Sabbath; Music Consultant Tony Iommi
Lead Composer and Music Supervisor Christopher Austin
Lead Choreographer and Artistic Director Pontus Lidberg
Dramaturg Richard Thomas
Designer Alexandre Arrechea
Lighting Designer K.J
Sound Designer Marko Nyberg
Metal Curator Lisa Meyer

Black Sabbath forged their unique sound in Birmingham Royal Ballet's home city. In Black Sabbath – The Ballet expect a spectacular theatrical evening featuring thrilling dance alongside full orchestrations of legendary Black Sabbath tracks such as Paranoid and Iron Man, as well as new orchestral works inspired by their music – all performed live by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia.

Act I: Heavy Metal Ballet

Composers Marko Nyberg, Christopher Austin
Choreographer Raúl  Reinoso
Orchestrator Ben Foskett
Arrangements and Additional Orchestration Joshua Hickin

Featuring: War Pigs, Iron Man, Solitude, Paranoid

Reina Fuchigami, Maïlène Katoch, Hannah Martin, Beatrice Parma, Matilde Rodrigues, Yaoqian Shang, Eilis Small, Lucy Waine, Enrique Bejarano Vidal, Kit Holder, Jack Easton, Gus Payne, Ryan Felix, Eric Pinto Cata, Thomas Hazelby, Javier Rojas, Yaoqian Shang, Tzu-Chao Chou.

Guitarist   Marc Hayward

Act II: The Band

Composer & Orchestrator Sun Keting
Choreographer Cassi Abranches

Featuring: Black Sabbath, Orchid, Planet Caravan, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Rosanna Ely, Tessa Hogge, Regan Hutsell, Frieda Kaden, Ava May Llewellyn, Matilde Rodrigues, Gabriel Anderson, Jack Eastonù, Ryan Felix, Kit Holder, Oscar Kempsey-Fagg, Mason King, Regan Hutsell, Céline Gittens, Tyrone Singleton.

Singer      Lachlan Monaghan

Act III: Everybody is a Fan

Composer & Orchestrator Christopher Austin
Choreographer Pontus Lidberg

Featuring: Iron Man, Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, War Pigs, Paranoid, Laguna Sunrise

Céline Gittens, Momoko Hirata, Miki Mizutani, Eilis Small, Lucy Waine, Tzu-Chao Chou, Shuailun Wu, Riku Ito, Lachlan Monaghan, Tyrone Singleton, Momoko Hirata, Tzu-Chao Chou, Riku Ito, and the full cast,

Guitarist   Marc Hayward

Royal Ballet Sinfonia

Conductor Christopher Austin
Leader Robert Gibbs

Timings
Act I 30 minutes; Act II 30 minutes; Act III 30 minutes

World Premiere

Gramilano( Editor )

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.