Genre:

Ballet

Release Date:

Oct 2014

Territory exclusion :

TERRITORY EXCLUSIONS: AUSTRALIA, NZ and NORTH AMERICA

Catalog Number:

OAF4030BD

The Beauty of Ballet BOX SET (The Australian Ballet)

​Bringing together five classic productions from The Australian Ballet, thisspecial collection explores the beauty of ballet by uniting spectacularchoreography, stunning set design, premier dancers and sumptuousmusical scores. Five very different worlds are assembled, all of which areguaranteed to enthral viewers for their visual charm and powerfulnarrative. As well as the classics Giselle, Coppélia and La Fille mal gardée,the collection also includes Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s acclaimed take on thetragic love story Manon as well as László Seregi’s epic account of theRoman soldier Spartacus.

Reviews

"Phenomenal dramatic impact… no other staging in recent memory has built upon such detail with such dramatic coherence." (The New York Times - Giselle)

"A spectacular drama of lust, greed and death… raunchy in subject matter and robust in interpretation. It is also graceful, beautiful and moving, action-packed and highly entertaining." (The Telegraph-Mirror -Manon)

"Comedy, pathos and lyricism unite in choreographic perfection to create one of the masterpieces in the 20th century ballet repertoire." (The Herald La Fille mal Gardée)