Talbot: The Winter's Tale Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Koen Kessels

• Joby Talbot (b. 1971): The Winter’s Tale, Act I:
• 1 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I: Prologue 05:52
• The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 1:
• 2 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 1: The court at Sicilia 02:48
• 3 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 1: Bohemian dance 02:34
• 4 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 1: Jealousy seizes Leontes 05:50
• 5 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 1: Leontes confronts Polixenes 03:03
• The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 2:
• 6 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 2: The nursery and Arrest of Hermione 07:05
• The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 3:
• 7 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 3: Leontes broods alone 01:48
• 8 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 3: Paulina presents the baby girl 02:14
• 9 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 3: Leontes rejects his daughter 01:48
• 10 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 3: Antigonus flees with the baby 01:07
• The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4:
• 11 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4: Trial of Hermione 01:09
• 12 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4: Hermione’s plea 02:24
• 13 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4: Profession of loyalty 02:19
• 14 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4: Leontes condemns his wife 00:59
• 15 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4: Death of Mamillius 01:16
• 16 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4: Paulina saves Leontes 01:51
• 17 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act I Scene 4: Shipwreck and Exit pursued by a bear 03:22
• The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 1:
• 18 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 1: Bohemia, sixteen years later 05:25
• 19 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 1: Florizel and Perdita’s tryst 04:00
• 20 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 1: Polixenes and his retinue 00:27
• 21 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 1: Florizel and Perdita in love 02:37
• The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 2:
• 22 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 2: Polixenes & Camillo in disguise 01:15
• The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 3:
• 23 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 3: Springtime festival part 1 03:46
• 24 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 3: Village musicians 02:32
• 25 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 3: Brother Clown dances 01:59
• 26 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 3: The wishing tree 01:34
• 27 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 3: Wind chimes 03:09
• 28 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 3: Perdita dances 01:59
• The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 4:
• 29 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 4: Springtime festival part 2 02:15
• 30 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 4: Florizel proposes 01:56
• 31 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 4: Polixenes unmasked 01:18
• 32 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act II Scene 4: Chase on the high seas 01:42
• The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 1:
• 33 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 1: Sicilia, at the graves of Hermione and Mamillius 04:50
• The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 2:
• 34 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 2: Florizel and Perdita disembark 03:20
• 35 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 2: Polixenes appears 00:47
• 36 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 2: Leontes appeals to Polixenes and Perdita’s true identity discovered 01:48
• The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 3:
• 37 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 3: Wedding of Florizel and Perdita 03:41
• 38 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 3: Paulina’s gift 01:31
• 39 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 3: Hermione lives 02:29
• 40 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 3: Hermione forgives Leontes 02:58
• 41 Talbot: The Winter’s Tale, Act III Scene 3: Reunion of Hermione and Perdita 03:21
• Total Runtime 01:48:08

Info zu Talbot: The Winter's Tale

Joby Talbot's hauntingly beautiful score for The Royal Ballet's The Winter's Tale masterfully explores the emotional depths of Shakespeare's timeless tale of jealousy, loss and redemption. Performed by The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and "Flitting between Hitchcockian intensity and alluring folk (Time Out), the recording delivers a rich, dynamic listening experience that compels from start to finish: from the dark, menacing motifs of King Leontes' descent into madness to the lush, vibrant, folk melodies of Bohemia.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Winter’s Tale is an award-winning modern ballet classic, packed with emotional turmoil heightened by Joby Talbot’s compelling score.

"Christopher Wheeldon's new three-act version of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a triumph. It is contemporary and classical, traditional and modern, narrative and abstract. It feels like something entirely new. It is this profound emotional trajectory that Wheeldon catches so brilliantly. He deals with the complexities of the story with great confidence – each moment is absolutely clear. But the reason that The Winter's Tale makes such a superb ballet is that you can mainline the feeling; the great arc from abject despair to reconciliation is traced in movement that attains its own poetry." (The Daily Telegraph)

"It is to the credit of Christopher Wheeldon that his realisation of The Winter's Tale as a three-act spectacle for the Royal Ballet is as well managed as it is. And in everything he is sustained by Joby Talbot's vividly responsive score. Absolutely splendid are Bob Crowley's designs throughout... The staging is a visual triumph, potent, evocative, eye-delighting." (The Financial Times)

"Christopher Wheeldon's striking new version of this Shakespeare piece crams everything you could want from a ballet into a single evening - comedy, tragedy, romance, drama and some lovely dancing. Steven McRae and Sarah Lamb lead the company in flurries of joyful movement in a buoyant Act II, as the plot turns into a hugely enjoyable caper. By the time they’re in a chase across the high seas, you’ll be hooked." (Evening Standard)

"'A game-changer for Wheeldon' - Christopher Wheeldon rises to the challenge of translating Shakespeare into dance, creating one of most fully achieved story ballets to be staged at Covent Garden in years. Yet Christopher Wheeldon has turned these challenges into inspiration. Together with composer Joby Talbot and designer Bob Crowley (whose mix of video, light and set design vividly illuminates the story), Wheeldon has used this play to develop the most expressive and inventive dance language we've yet seen from him.

It's clear how much attention he has paid to Shakespeare's language. In the short prologue that mimes the backstory of Leontes and Polixenes's friendship, the image of the sea – constantly present as a metaphor for division and redemption – is beautifully evoked in the wave formations that sweep through the framing dance. After the chill white marble of the Sicilian court and the angry claustrophobia of its music, the transition to the light- and colour-filled world of Bohemia is exhilarating. On a stage dominated by one magically illuminated, decorated tree, this act is pure dance, a seamless fusion of the folksy and the poetic, in which Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae are adorable pastoral lovers, and Valentino Zucchetti is the wittiest of shepherds." (The Guardian)

Edward Watson (Leontes)
Lauren Cuthbertson (Hermione)
Sarah Lamb (Perdita)
Zenaida Yanowsky (Paulina)
Steven McRae (Florizel)
Federico Bonelli (Polixenes)
Bennet Gartside (Antigonus)
Joe Parker (Mamillius)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Koen Kessels, conductor

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
The Orchestra accompanies The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet on the Main Stage under the music direction of Jakub Hrůša (The Royal Opera) and Koen Kessels (The Royal Ballet).

The Orchestra is renowned worldwide for its outstanding musicians, and the distinguished roster of international conductors with whom it has played. In 2019 they won ‘Opera Orchestra of the Year’ in the International Opera Awards. They have also toured with The Royal Opera to Japan and performed at venues including Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Cadogan Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus

The Orchestra accompanies performances that are streamed all over the world, including through cinema screenings and broadcasts. They appear on many CDs and DVDs including Pappano’s acclaimed studio recording of Tristan und Isolde with Plácido Domingo and Nina Stemme.

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House was founded in 1946 when the Royal Opera House reopened after World War II.

Koen Kessels
made his Royal Ballet debut in 2008 conducting The Nutcracker and has since returned every Season, to conduct a repertory including The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and Symphony in C and the world premieres of Raven Girl, Untouchable, Woolf Works, Frankenstein and Multiverse. He has been Music Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2010, and becomes Music Director of the Dutch National Ballet in August 2024.

Kessels was born in Oostende, Belgium, and studied at the Antwerp Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music. He was appointed Music Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2010. He has guest conducted for such companies as Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Wiener and Bayerisches Staatsballet, Kunliga Operan, deMunt Brussels, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Ballet Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Capitole, New York City Ballet, New National Theatre Tokyo, Teatro Real Madrid.

His ballet repertory includes Le Parc, Coppélia, La Source, Proust, Cinderella, Hurlevent, Hommage à Jerôme Robbins, Giselle, French Program, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Firebird, Jewels, Romeo and Juliet and The Prince of the Pagodas. Opera repertory includes Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin (Antwerp), Hosokawa’s Hanjo (La Monnaie, Brussels) and operas by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Britten, among others.

His ballet repertory includes Coppélia, La Source, Sylvia, Giselle, Don Quixote, La Bayadère, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Firebird, Petrushka, Apollo, Les Noces, The Rite of Spring, Prodigal Son, Jewels, The Prince of the Pagodas, Hurlevent, Carmina Burana, Proust ou l’Intermittence du Coeur, Hommage à Jerôme Robbins, Two Pigeons, Le Parc, Symphony in C, M Julie, Bolero, La Valse, Suite en Blanc, L’Arlésienne, Fall River Legend, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Winters Tale, After the Rain, Within the Golden Hour and The Judas Tree. He also conducted the world premieres of Psyche, Untouchable, Flight Pattern, Frankenstein, Symphonic Dances, Strapless, Corybantic Games, Raven Girl, Woolf Works, Yugen, Sunyata, Processen, The Dante Project and The Cellist.

Opera repertory includes Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin, Hosokawa’s Hanjo, Cherkaoui and Len's Shell Shock, Wim Henderickx’s De Bekeerlinge and operas by Mozart, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini, Britten, Maxwell Davies.

Koen is President of the artistic direction team at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Honorary Professor at Birmingham University, Artistic Director of Inspiratum and HERMESensemble.

Joby Talbot
English composer Joby Talbot made his Royal Ballet debut in 2006, with the score for Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s Chroma. Talbot has since written three full-length ballet scores for the Company, in collaboration with Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2011), the Company’s first full-length commission for more than twenty years, The Winter’s Tale (2014) and Like Water for Chocolate (2021).

Joby Talbot was born in London in 1971. He studied composition privately with Brian Elias and at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, before completing a Master of Music (Composition) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Simon Bainbridge.

Talbot’s diverse catalogue also includes small and large-scale choral and vocal works (The Wishing Tree, 2002; Path of Miracles, 2005; A Sheen of Dew on Flowers, 2019); orchestral pieces (Sneaker Wave, 2004; Chacony in G Minor, 2011; Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity, 2012, ); concerti (Desolation Wilderness for Alison Balsom , 2006; Ink Dark Moon for Milos Karadaglic, 2018); silent film scores (The Lodger, 1999; The Dying Swan, 2002; Vampyr, 2018) and feature film and television scores (The League of Gentlemen, 1999 - 2005; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 2005; Sing, 2016; Sing 2, 2021 and Wonka, 2023).

Talbot’s critically acclaimed first opera, Everest, was given its premiere in 2015 by The Dallas Opera. His second opera based on the true story The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, a further collaboration with librettist Gene Sheer, premiered in November 2023. Oscar, Talbot’s fourth large scale collaboration with Christopher Wheeldon, commissioned by The Australian Ballet, will open in Melbourne in September 2024.

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