The Royal Ballet Spring 2013 Season

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland returns for The Royal Ballet’s Spring 2013 season. For the first time ever, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will be broadcast live from Covent Garden on 28th March, which also means that if you are attending performances on 21st and 28th March, you should be aware that there will be cameras filming in the auditorium. There is only one role debut, for Brian Maloney, and casting is as follows :

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

15, 28 March & 13 April Cuthbertson, Bonelli, Watson, Yanowsky, McRae

19, 23 March & 2 April Lamb, McRae, Cervera, Morera, Campbell

21 March Cuthbertson, Bonelli, Cervera, Yanowsky, McRae

25 March & 6, 11 April Stix-Brunell, Pennefather, Maloney*, Mendizabal, tbc

27 March Lamb, McRae, Watson, Morera, Campbell

La Bayadère sees a few notable role debuts this time; Steven McRae and Nehemiah Kish take on the role of Solor, and Dutch National Ballet’s Matthew Golding dances as a guest in the same role for one performance. Yuhui Choe, Itziar Mendizabal and Claire Calvert dance the role of Gamzatti.

La Bayadère

5, 20 April Cojocaru, Bonelli, Nuñez

9, 27 April Cuthbertson, Kish*, Choe*

12 Apr, 6 May eve Marquez, McRae*, Morera

1, 13 May Yanowsky, Golding*, Mendizabal*

2, 6 May mat Lamb, Soares, Calvert*

14, 22 May Nuñez, Acosta, Kobayashi

In Mayerling, Lauren Cuthbertson makes a role debut as Mary Vetsera, and Hikaru Kobayashi and Itziar Mendizabal dance the role of Marie Larische. Other debuts from Meaghan Grace Hinkis and Yuhui Choe. On 13th June Mayerling will be broadcast live to sites around the UK as part of the BP Big Screen Season.

Mayerling

19 April Watson, Galeazzi, Lamb, Hayward*, Yanowsky

25, 30 April & 5 June Kobborg, Cojocaru, Kobayashi*, Maguire, McNally

3 May & 10 June Pennefather, Hamilton, Mendizabal*, Harrod, Bhavnani

30 May & 6, 15 June Acosta, Benjamin, Morera, Hinkis*, Yanowsky

1 mat, 12 June Soares, Cuthbertson*, Nuñez, Choe*, CHapman

1 eve, 13 June Watson, Galeazzi, Lamb, Hayward, Arestis

* role debut