Watch the Royal Ballet perform 'The Cellist'

Here’s another fabulous fix for those craving some seriously gorgeous classical ballet: the Royal Ballet is presently streaming a live performance of its new ballet, The Cellist.

Choreographed by Cathy Marston, the ballet is described as “a lyrical memoir of the momentous life of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, from her discovery of the cello through her celebrity as one of the most extraordinary players of the instrument to her frustration and struggle with multiple sclerosis”.

The Cellist draws on the full complement of The Royal Ballet's dancers, including principals Lauren Cuthbertson, Matthew Ball and Marchelino Sambe, as well as Australian Benjamin Ella as one of Pre’s cello teachers. Composer Philip Feeney incorporates some of the most moving and powerful cello music of Elgar, Beethoven, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Piatti, Rachmaninoff and Schubert into an exquisite score that is itself an homage to the cello.

The Cellist was first performed in February 2020 and this recording was broadcast live to cinemas on 25 February. You can watch it on demand here:

 

 https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/the-cellist-stream-details

until June 12.