Were I the saint he worships, I would hear him

Detail of Antonello da Messina, San Sebastiano, oil on panel, c. 1478.

Wilhelm von Gloeden, Head and shoulders of a young man, Taormina, Sicily, c. 1890.

Rudolf Nureyev performing Désiré's variation from his own version of The Sleeping Beauty.

Marianela Núñez and William Bracewell in Peter Wright's Giselle. Video by Andre Uspenski.

Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose)

Cesar Corrales and Francesca Hayward in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. Ph. by Rachel Hollings.

Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams rehearsing Agon in front of Balanchine and Stravinsky.

Alan Scarfe as Bottom and Maggie Smith as Titania, with Robin Nunn as Peaseblossom, Bob Baker as Cobweb, Keith Batten as Moth, and Robert Ruttan as Mustardseed in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The model Paul posing for Yannis Tsarouchis in France, 1974

Lynn Seymour as Ophelia and Rudolf Nureyev as Hamlet in rehearsal for Robert Helpmann's Hamlet.

London, Royal Opera House, 1964.