For her début as the new Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer of the Ballet Zürich, Cathy Marston is showing the Cellist, which she composed for the Royal Ballet in London.
The ballet tells the life story of Jacqueline du Pré, cellist extraordinaire (wife of famous conductor Daniel Barenboim), struck at her prime by multiple sclerosis.
The ballet is structured around the Cellist (Giulia Tonelli), the Cello (Wei Chen), and the Conductor (Esteban Berlanga), and is supported by figures of the cellist’s family, her cello teacher, and the male trio of the “musical friends”.