Christopher Saunders
- Acting
Biography
Christopher Saunders is a British dancer. He trained at The Royal Ballet School. He entered the The Royal Ballet in 1983. He was promoted to Soloist in 1991 and to Principal Character Artist in 1997. He appointed Ballet Master in 2001 and Rehearsal Director in 2017.
Known for
Filmography
- Don Quixote from Birmingham Royal Ballet · Stage Director
- The Royal Ballet: Mayerling · Emperor Franz Joseph
- A Month in the Country · Yslaev
- The Nutcracker - The Royal Ballet · Herr Drosselmeyer
- ROH Live: The Nutcracker · Herr Drosselmeyer
- Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty · King
- Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet) · Edward Elgar, Stage Director
- The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern · Stage Director
- Royal Opera House: Don Quixote · Don Quixote
- The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker · Dr Stahlbaum
- Manon (The Royal Ballet) · Stage Director
- Anastasia · Tsar Nicholas II
- The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand · Armand's Father
- Royal Opera House: Coppélia · The Burgomaster
- The Sleeping Beauty · King Florestan XXIV
- The Nutcracker · Dr Stahlbaum
- Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet · Lord Capulet
- La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet) · Thomas
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Father / The King of Hearts, Stage Director
- Royal Ballet: Manon · Monsieur G. M.
- Don Quixote (The Royal Ballet) · Don Quixote
- Giselle · The Duke
- Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet) · Lord Capulet, Stage Director
- 666 Park Avenue · Jones
- Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Father / King of Hearts
- La Bayadère · Rajah
- The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre · Self
- Swan Lake · An Evil Spirit, later Von Rothbart
- The Sleeping Beauty · King Florestan XXIV
- Coppélia (The Royal Ballet) · The Duke
- Minkus: Don Quixote - Royal Opera House · Don Quixote