Wheeldon is an experienced creator of story ballets (he made “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “The Winter’s Tale” for the Royal Ballet) and has directed and choreographed two Broadway shows, including “MJ: The Musical,” for which he has been nominated for a Tony Award. For a moment, it seems that creating a ballet based on a complicated plot involving cooking, food and magic, isn’t necessarily a terrible idea. In this succinct image, Wheeldon (and the designer Bob Crowley) suggests the intermingling of life and death, of the fantastical and the practical, the magical and the real, that permeate Esquivel’s much loved story. It’s an arresting, painterly beginning for this three-act ballet, based on the novel by the Mexican writer Laura Esquivel, which opened on Thursday at the Royal Opera House here. Now, they are dressed in black, a row of crones, who sit and begin to knit as the action begins. LONDON - Twelve white-robed, veiled brides stand motionless onstage as the curtain rises on Christopher Wheeldon’s new full-length “Like Water for Chocolate,” for the Royal Ballet.
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