Northern Ballet brings the remarkable story of one of the world’s best-known icons – Cleopatra – back to the Grand Theatre in Leeds.
Cleopatra, which is staged from March 6-15, premiered in the city four years ago, then toured extensively throughout the UK.
It has now been seen by more than 54,000 people and generated more than £1 million at the box office.
Cleopatra is choreographed by Northern Ballet’s artistic director, David Nixon OBE, to a score – played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia – that was written by Oscar-nominated Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated composer, Claude-Michel Schönberg, best known for the musicals Les Misérables and Miss Saigon.
The show charts Cleopatra’s sensational rise to power, her scandalous romances with the most powerful men in history, and her eventual downfall.
Schönberg said: “I realised the chaos of being in love with such a woman as Cleopatra put the Roman Emperor and his Empire in danger. That’s what the score is trying to reflect, without falling into clichés associated with that era.”
Visit leedsgrandtheatre.com or call 08448 482700 for further information.
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