Ballet Performance Videos and DVDs 11

Ballet videos - An Evening with the Royal Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, Sleeping Beauty, Spartacus and Russian Ballet.

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Evening with the Royal Ballet DVD

DVD - $29.99
This program immortalizes a gala evening of classical ballet featuring the legendary team of Rudulf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn. Britain's Royal Ballet is one of the world's most celebrated dance companies, thrilling us for over 30 years with a legacy of stunning performances. An Evening With The Royal Ballet has been critically acclaimed as “a chance to view the pinnacle of ballet achievement.”

This program features excerpts from immortal favorites including Le Corsaire, Les Sylphides, the Sleeping Beauty and La Valse. Frederick Aston's choreography is brilliantly executed throughout. This is one evening ballet lovers will enjoy over and over again.

85 minutes.
DVD - Region 1.

Highlights From The Royal Ballet Video

DVD Only (D2023) - $19.99
Highlights From The Royal Ballet features stunning performances from one of the world's leading ballet companies. This wonderful compilation showcases the talent of Anthony Dowell, Lesley Collier, Wayne Eagling, Alessandra Ferri and many others in superb productions of popular ballet favorites.

60 mins. (1999)
DVD - Region 1

A Simple Man - Davis/Northern Ballet DVD

A Simple Man

A dramatic ballet by Gillian Lynne with music by Carl Davis.

Commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the painter L.S. Lowry in 1987, this BAFTA award-winning dramatic ballet celebrates the life and work of a unique artist. Created by Gillian Lynne in collaboration with the composer Carl Davis this memorable production, filmed in 1987, is performed by the Northern Ballet Theatre, led by ex-Royal Ballet stars Christopher Gable and Moira Shearer.

Remastered for DVD, with the addition of recent interviews with Lynne and Davis, it gives a fascinating insight into the creation of an inspirational work in the history of dance, which remains as fresh as ever.

92 mins. (2009)
DVD - All Region

The Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky/Dutch National Ballet DVD

The Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky/Dutch National Ballet

Tchaikovsky and Petipa's timeless ballet - acknowledged as the most pure and demanding piece in the classic romantic repertoire - is a stunning example of the sparkling virtuosity of Petipa's rich dance vocabulary.

Recorded at Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam with Het Nationale Ballet (The Dutch National Ballet) in 2003, this version was created in 1981 by the English choreographer Sir Peter Wright, whose sensitive staging closely reflects Marius Petipa's original work.

In 1989 the ballet was adapted for Het Muziektheater's larger stage. Philip Prowse's ravishing Baroque sets and costumes add the glamour and grandeur essential to a ballet intended for the court of the Russian Tsar.

This is a 2 DVD set!
177 mins. (2009)
DVD - All Region

The Sleeping Beauty - The Australian Ballet Video  (D2113)

"Beauty is a kiss of life … nothing short of a masterpiece … a visually and artistically memorable experience … this Sleeping Beauty could hardly be topped" – The Sun.

This ballet is the magical tale of the beautiful Princess Aurora, condemned to sleep for one hundred years under a spell from the wicked Fairy Carabosse. She is awakened by a kiss from Prince Florimund, and there follows a joyous wedding celebration.

133 mins. (2008)
DVD - Region 1 (Canada, United States; U.S. territories; Bermuda)

Sleeping Beauty - Classic Motion Picture With The Kirov Ballet Video

The Kirov Ballet performs this beautiful ballet in this classic color motion picture from 1965. This is based on the original choreography by Marius Petipa starring ballerina Alla Sizova as Princess Aurora.

84 mins. (2007)
DVD - All Region

The Sleeping Beauty Video (D4070)

Starring: Aurelie Dupont, Manuel Legris, Vincent Cordier, Nathalie Quernet. Conductor: David Coleman.  Choreographer: Rudolf Nureyev. Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The Sleeping Beauty remains, as Rudolf Nureyev often called it, the ‘ballet of ballets'. It is the most accomplished and the most brilliant, as well as one of the most spectacular of the 19th century, and the most representative of the ‘noble' style of classical dancing. Rudolf Nureyev's version, which he created for the Opera Ballet in 1989, was recorded at the Opéra Bastille in 1999, in a new production (sets and costumes) created by his faithful collaborators, Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino, who had already produced Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet and La Bayadère.

148 mins. (2006)
DVD - Region 1.

The Sleeping Beauty Video

Cast – Princess Aurora: Viviana Durante.  Prince Florimund: Zoltan Solymosi.  Carabosse: Anthony Dowell.  The Lilac Fairy: Benazir Hussein.  King Florestan: William Tuckett.  The Queen: Elizabeth MCGorian.  Court Chamberlain Cattalabutte: David Drew.  Artists of the Royal Ballet.  Executive Producer: Revel Guest.  Producer: Jane Pleydell-Bouverie.  Director: Colin Nears.

132 mins. (1994)
DVD - Region 1.

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