Ballet in Cinema Prepares Broadcasts from London Royal Ballet to 29 Cinemas Next Season
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The Royal Opera House in London announced the list of performances to be screened live in cinemas in the 2014/2015 season, a part of which will be also included in programs of 29 Czech cinema houses. The same number of cinemas is involved into live broadcasting from the Metropolitan Opera. There is no doubt the interest increased rapidly due to the repertoire featuring Wheeldon’s highly successful authorial adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Massenet’s ballet Manon and the recorded performance of Romeo and Juliet. The Bio Oko Cinema at Letná will open the advance-booking tomorrow, on 29 May.
The current season of Ballet in Cinema is still awaiting its end performance Balanchine/Millepied. The live broadcast from the Paris Opera Ballet will be presented by Světozor Cinema on Tuesday, 3 June from 19:30. The new season is already scheduled and those from Prague who are interested can book their seats from tomorrow. The next season’s program focuses on a single ballet house – The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London. In Prague, the ballet broadcasts and recorded performances will be shown at Bio Oko at Letná. “The Royal Ballet in London belongs to the world’s top companies, and it will be the third season we screen the London ballet performances,” reminds the director of Bio Oko David Beránek.
The season opens on 16 October with live broadcasting of Massenet’s ballet Manon choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan – with Mariela Núñez in the title role of Manon and Federico Bonelli embodying the poet Des Grieux. On 16 December, there comes Alice in Wonderland, created by the authorial trio Christopher Wheeldon, Joby Talbot and Bob Crowley. Alice in Wonderland became a number-one show immediately after its premiere in 2011. The fantasy-loaded adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s literary work is suitable for the whole family. At the beginning of the next year, the cinema will live broadcast two classical ballet pieces: Swan Lake on 17 March and Hérold’s La Fille Mal Gardée choreographed by Frederic Ashton on 5 May. All the live broadcasts will start uniformly at 20:15 in all cinema houses.
The program will be enriched by two more recorded performances. Prokofjev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet will be screened in Bio Oko on Sunday, 11 January from 15:00, other cinemas will show it on various dates. The last title, also recorded, has not been made public yet.