British back with beauty and a romantic feast
Last June, the Royal Ballet from London performed Sleeping Beauty, Manon and a Triple Bill at the National Center for the Performing Arts. This week, its sister company, the Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) has brought two full-length ballets, Beauty and the Beast and Romeo and Juliet, to the same venue.
The company flew to Beijing on Sunday, having just performed Kenneth MacMillan's love tragedy Romeo and Juliet in Birmingham's twin city Guangzhou, last Friday and Saturday.
It will tonight perform its third and final production of director David Bintley's Beauty and the Beast before turning to Romeo and Juliet on Saturday and Sunday. In between, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, the Orchestra of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, will tomorrow play at the Concert Hall of National Center for the Performing Arts. Then the company will move to Shanghai for four shows from Jan 21-24.
