Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Ballet Appreciation Series (2014#8) - Kenneth MacMillan

Kenneth MacMillan 


(1) Mayerling  

Based on the Mayerling Incident (Jan 1889) where 30-year-old Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary (married to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium) shot his 17-year-old beautiful lover Baroness Mary Vetsera, and then himself, in the hunting lodge at Mayerling, 30 miles away from Vienna. 

Trailer
WARNING: It contains adult and adultery contents:

  Clip 1

 Clip 2  

Episode:
Rudolf was buried in imperial garment, and among his Habsburg ancestors, who had ruled Austria for 600 years. His lover was buried, unnoticed and eventually, in a primitive coffin in an unknown  nunnery. 



(2) Concerto



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