The very title of Max Ophüls’s 1940 film, “From Mayerling to Sarajevo,” which is settling into Film Forum today for a weeklong run, suggests another story altogether. The Mayerling ...

At 7.30am on January 30 1889, a servant tried to wake Crown Prince Rudolf, the 30-year-old heir to the Austro-Hungarian imperial throne, at the Mayerling hunting lodge in the Vienna Woods. Finding ...

Darcey Bussell and Ore Oduba introduce Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling from the Royal Ballet. Based on the true story of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf and his young mistress Mary Vetsera in ...

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Diligently based on the events surrounding the double murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his 17-year-old mistress Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s three-act 1978 dance-drama “Mayerling” contains no less than five major female roles — assignments calling for powerful acting as well as stellar technique. What other ...

On the other end of the dance spectrum is Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling, the vivid dramatisation of the life of Crown Prince Rudolph and his death alongside his young mistress Mary Vetsera in 1889.

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Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling is a ballet of doomed obsession. The hero is a prince, but this historical drama couldn’t be further from fairytale: it follows Rudolf, heir to the Austro ...

My plan for Monday was to read newspapers in the Cafe Bräunerhof and bike to the royal hunting lodge in Mayerling. There in January 1889, the Habsburg crown prince Rudolph killed his lover ...