Take a seat in the stalls at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for an unforgettable evening of ballet and opera highlights performed by world-renowned stars of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet past and present. This special two-DVD set features opera arias, duets and choruses, and ballet solos, pas de deux and ensembles, drawn from the repertory of two of the world's greatest artistic companies and performed in one of the world's most loved opera houses.
Recorded in true Surround Sound.
The singing is subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese.
Ballet Highlights from - Swan Lake (Ivanov), The Nutcracker (Ivanov/Wright), Giselle (Petipa/Wright), The Sleeping Beauty (Petipa), La Fille mal Gardée (Ashton), Coppélia (De Valois/Ivanov/Cecchetti), Romeo and Juliet (Macmillan), Sylvia (Ashton), The Firebird (Folkine), and Voices of Spring (Ashton)
Starring - Carlos Acosta, Leanne Benjamin, Roberto Bolle, Darcey Bussell, Alina Cojocaru, Luke Heydon, Bethany Keating, Johan Kobborg, Iohna Loots, Emma Maguire, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Romany Pajdak, Tamaro Rojo, Christopher Saunders, Thiago Soares, William Tuckett, and Miyako Yoshida.
Artists from The Royal Ballet
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Conductors - Graham Bond, John Carewe, Boris Gruzin, Nicolae Moloveanu, Valeriy Ovsyanikov, Anthony Twiner and Barry Wordsworth.
Opera Highlights from - La Traviata (Verdi), Carmen (Bizet), Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), La bohème (Puccini), Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Il Trovatore (Verdi), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), Falstaff (Verdi), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Macbeth (Verdi), Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), and Dido and Aeneas* (Purcell).
Starring - Joseph Calleja, Sarah Connolly, José Cura, Diana Damrau, Inna Dukach, Renée Fleming, Hibla Gerzmava, Teodor Ilincđi, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keenleyside, Angelika Kirchshlager, Miah Persson, Erwin Schrott, Ekaterina Siurina, Bryn Terfel and Ailish Tynan.
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Conductors - Colin Davies, Bernard Haitink, Charles Mackerras, Andris Nelsons, Antonio Pappano and Carlo Rizzi
*Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Conductor - Chistopher Hogwood
Take a seat in the stalls at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for an unforgettable evening of ballet and opera highlights performed by world-renowned stars of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet past and present. This special two-DVD set features opera arias, duets and choruses, and ballet solos, pas de deux and ensembles, drawn from the repertory of two of the world's greatest artistic companies and performed in one of the world's most loved opera houses.
Recorded in true Surround Sound.
The singing is subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese.
Ballet Highlights from - Swan Lake (Ivanov), The Nutcracker (Ivanov/Wright), Giselle (Petipa/Wright), The Sleeping Beauty (Petipa), La Fille mal Gardée (Ashton), Coppélia (De Valois/Ivanov/Cecchetti), Romeo and Juliet (Macmillan), Sylvia (Ashton), The Firebird (Folkine), and Voices of Spring (Ashton)
Starring - Carlos Acosta, Leanne Benjamin, Roberto Bolle, Darcey Bussell, Alina Cojocaru, Luke Heydon, Bethany Keating, Johan Kobborg, Iohna Loots, Emma Maguire, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Romany Pajdak, Tamaro Rojo, Christopher Saunders, Thiago Soares, William Tuckett, and Miyako Yoshida.
Artists from The Royal Ballet
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Conductors - Graham Bond, John Carewe, Boris Gruzin, Nicolae Moloveanu, Valeriy Ovsyanikov, Anthony Twiner and Barry Wordsworth.
Opera Highlights from - La Traviata (Verdi), Carmen (Bizet), Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), La bohème (Puccini), Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Il Trovatore (Verdi), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), Falstaff (Verdi), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Macbeth (Verdi), Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), and Dido and Aeneas* (Purcell).
Starring - Joseph Calleja, Sarah Connolly, José Cura, Diana Damrau, Inna Dukach, Renée Fleming, Hibla Gerzmava, Teodor Ilincđi, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keenleyside, Angelika Kirchshlager, Miah Persson, Erwin Schrott, Ekaterina Siurina, Bryn Terfel and Ailish Tynan.
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Conductors - Colin Davies, Bernard Haitink, Charles Mackerras, Andris Nelsons, Antonio Pappano and Carlo Rizzi
*Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Conductor - Chistopher Hogwood