Kaguyahime is één van de oudste sprookjes uit Japan. Het verhaal over de mysterieuze Maan Prinses inspireerde Jirí Kylián tot het scheppen van een avondvullend ballet, waarvoor hij de muziek liet componeren door de Japanse componist Maki Ishii. Door het gebruik van westerse percussie...
Sergei Prokofiev and Yuri Grigorovich's two-act ballet is captured live at the Opéra National de Paris in this 2003 performance featuring dancers Nicolas Le Riche, Karl Paquette, and Eleonora Abbagnato. The Corps de Ballet et Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris performs under the wand of...
* Adam's two-act ballet is even today considered one of the most beautiful and most characteristic works of the classical ballet.
* This DVD presents the Bolshoi Ballet's 1990 production with the wonderful Natalia Bessmertnova, whose husband, Yuri Grigorovich, was the artistic director.
This lost gem with music by Edouard-Marie-Ernest Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus is repackaged and reissued at midprice.
It is performed here with Joseph Mazilier's original 1846 choreography, painstakingly researched and recreated by French choreographer Pierre Lacotte and spectacularly performed by...
This performance of Schneitzhoeffer's ballet La Sylphide features the music of the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris and was performed by the Le Corps de Ballet de de l'Opera National de Paris
