Faure's Cello Sonata - socially-distanced performance by members of the Royal Opera House Orchestra

Hetty Snell (cello) and Kate Shipway (piano) perform a socially-distanced rendition of an extract from Faure's Cello Sonata No. 1 (Movement II - Andante), which features in Cathy Marston's Royal Ballet production of The Cellist - available to watch in full from 29 May:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdo6P8LnFE

Cathy Marston's first work for the Royal Opera House Main Stage is a lyrical memoir of the momentous life of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, from her discovery of the cello through her celebrity as one of the most extraordinary players of the instrument to her frustration and struggle with multiple sclerosis.

Rich and poignant, joyous and tragic, The Cellist draws on the talents of The Royal Ballet's Principals, Character Artists, Soloists and Corps to tell the moving story of the cellist's life. Composer Philip Feeney incorporates some of the most moving and powerful cello music of Elgar, Beethoven, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Piatti, Rachmaninoff and Schubert into an exquisite score that is itself an homage to the cello.

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