ROH: Mayerling

Dangerous passions, family secrets and political intrigues in every minute of this ballet based on real events. This performance, a Royal Ballet classic, is based on a real tragedy and depicts the sexual and self-destructive obsessions of Crown Prince Rudolf; everything ends in scandal and bloodshed. Amidst the suffocating opulence of the Austro-Hungarian court of the 1880s, a tense drama unfolds, full of psychological and political intrigue, against which Prince Rudolf contemplates death.