Birthday Offering/A Month in the Country/Les Noces, Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House: The Royal Ballet's penultimate programme of its 2011/12 season, which is also Monica Mason's last as its director, is a triple bill that demonstrates the company's diverse repertory and able dancers. Perhaps the highlight of a strong evening was Bronislava Nijinska's strange ballet Les Noces, a work commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes in 1923 to new music by I…