Mayerling bedroom pas de deux (The Royal Ballet)

Edward Watson as the Crown Prince Rudolf and Mara Galeazzi as Mary Vetsera in Kenneth MacMillan’s Royal Ballet production of Mayerling. Find out more at Kenneth MacMillan turned to the double suicide of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his teenage mistress for this 1978 work. The music of Franz Liszt, arranged by John Lanchbery, provides a sweeping soundscape to match the high emotion of the drama, while the designs of Nicholas G