Cathy Marston's first work for the Royal Opera House Main Stage is 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. Rich and poignant, joyous and tragic, The Cellist draws on the talents of The Royal Ballet's Principals, Character Artists, Soloists and Corps to tell the moving story of the cellist's life. 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.
Lauren Cuthbertson
The Cellist
Marcelino Sambé
The Instrument
Matthew Ball
The Conductor
Emma Lucano
The Cellist (as a young girl)
Lauren Godfrey
Her Sister (as a young girl)
Kristen McNally
Her Mother
Thomas Whitehead
Her Father
Anna Rose O'Sullivan
Her Sister
Flamingo Road71%
High Strung70%
Save the Last Dance65%
Life in a Year82%
Not Easily Broken62%
The Man from Elysian Fields58%
Gabriel's Inferno: Part III83%
Newness60%
Maria's Lovers60%
Time Is Up64%
Lovely, Still65%
Petulia60%
Racing with the Moon63%
A Journal for Jordan69%
Gabriel's Inferno83%
Peter Ibbetson69%
Asylum59%
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between61%
Breathe74%
Fifty Shades Freed67%
