Mayerling review " astounding from beginning to end
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan's bleak psychological period piece is a gift for the Royal Ballet's dancers, who take turns in performances of gripping, in-the-moment power When Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling was premiered in February 1978, it was revolutionary, taking the three-act ballet into real-life realms of psychosis and misery that it had never explored before. True, it featured a prince, but Crown …