Genre:

Ballet

Release Date:

Jan 2011

Recorded:

2009

Number of Discs:

1

Sound:

2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS

Subtitles:

EN, FR, DE, ES

Aspect Ratio:

1080i High Definition / 16:9

Display:

NTSC

Catalog Number:

OABD7079D

Minkus: La Bayadère (The Royal Ballet)

Tamara Rojo (Nikiya); Carlos Acosta (Solar); Marianela Nuñez (Gamzatti);

Marius Petipa's exotic ballet, set in legendary India, is a story of love, death and vengeful judgement. Natalia Makarova's sumptuous recreation of Petipa's choreography, with atmospheric sets by Pier Luigi Samaritini and beautiful costumes by Yolanda Sonnabend, stars Tamara Rojo as the Bayadère (temple dancer) Nikiya, Carlos Acosta as Solor, and Marianela Nuñez as Gamzatti whose alluring presence challenges Solor's love for Nikiya.

Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.

Reviews

"There wasn’t a single physical gesture that didn’t mean something, that didn’t speak of love trying and failing to blossom." (The Daily Telegraph)

"Overall, this is one of the best productions of a classical ballet that the ROH has ever staged or filmed." (Musicweb International)

Extra features

Tamara Rajo on dancing La Bayadère. Leanne Cope and Francesca Filpi on the corps de ballet. Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta rehearse with Alexander Agadzhanov. Natalia Makarova on choreographing La Bayadère.