Elizabeth McGorian Trailers
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Elizabeth McGorian (formerly known as Sharon McGorian) is a Principal Character Artist of The Royal Ballet. She joined the Company in 1977 and was promoted to Soloist in 1991 and Principal Character Artist in 1997. In the 2019/20 Season, along with her Royal Ballet appearances, she performed Lady of the Pearls (Death in Venice) for The Royal Opera. McGorian was born in Zambia and studied at the Mercia Hetherington School in Zimbabwe. She joined The Royal Ballet Upper School in 1976, won gold in the 1977 Adeline Genée International Ballet Competition and joined the Company that year. Her wide repertory with the Company includes Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Empress Elisabeth and Helene Vetsera (Mayerling), Madge (La Sylphide), Princess and Queen (Swan Lake), Lady Elgar (Enigma Variations), Madame Larina (Onegin), Pianist (The Lesson), Berthe (Giselle), Queen and Carabosse (The Sleeping Beauty), Madame (Manon), Bride (Les Noces), Utah Longhorn Ram (‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café) and Tsarevna and Tsarina (Anastasia). Her role creations include Marie Virginie Avegno (Strapless), Madame Moritz (Frankenstein) and in Fleeting Figures, Piano, Half the House, Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, Isadora, Gloria and La Fin du jour. Work away from the Company includes in Arthur Pita’s Facada with Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev and in the feature-length dance film Young Men by BalletBoyz.
Most Popular Elizabeth McGorian Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
04 December 2018
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downstairs to find a magical adventure awaiting her and her Nutcracker.
06 April 1994
The Sleeping Beauty unites Petipa's demanding but enchanting choreography with Tchaikovsky's wonderful score in one of the best-loved of all classical ballets.
21 October 2006
Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved of classical ballets, combining in a single work all the enchantment and virtuosity that ballet has to offer.
08 December 2016
The young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a Nutcracker.
27 September 2017
Fields of France, during the First World War. A group of young soldiers, united by the indiscriminate brutality of battle, fights to maintain their humanity in an endless cycle of combat and death.
22 September 2015
Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its dramatic finest.
16 January 2020
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die.
18 May 2016
Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein is the world premiere of Liam Scarlett’s new full-length ballet.
12 June 2018
Prince Siegfried is celebrating his coming of age. The Queen Mother informs him that, the following day, during the grand ball held to mark his birthday, he must choose a future wife.
06 April 2010
Inspired by dark and gripping real life events, this Royal Ballet classic depicts the sexual and morbid obsessions of Crown Prince Rudolf leading to the murder-suicide scandal with his mistress Mary Vetsera.
28 February 2017
The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, its first production at its new home in Covent Garden.
23 August 2019
Based on the true story of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf and his young mistress Mary Vetsera in 1889, Steven McRae and Sarah Lamb take on these challenging roles in a dark and intense ballet.
06 April 2016
The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised to another.
21 September 2009
Yolanda Sonnabend's Faberge'-inspired designs evoke a world of Imperial Russia in Anthony Dowell's acclaimed production for The Royal Ballet of 'Swan Lake', one of the world's best-loved ballets.
06 April 2010
Edward Watson takes the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan's compelling ballet which lives out the final eight years of Rudolf's life with its relentless downward spiral of political intrigue, drugs and murder.
