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Kenneth MacMillan: Three Ballets (DVD) | Opus Arte OA1038D

Kenneth MacMillan: Three Ballets (DVD)

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Label: Opus Arte

Cat No: OA1038D

Barcode: 0809478010388

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 27th September 2010

Contents

Artists

Marianela Nunez
Yuhui Choe
Steven McRae
Sarah Lamb
Valeri Hristov
Steven McRae
Carlos Acosta
Leanne Benjamin
Edward Watson
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Conductors

Dominic Grier
Robert Clark
Barry Wordsworth

Works

Elias, Brian

The Judas Tree

Joplin, Scott

Elite Syncopations

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Concerto

Artists

Marianela Nunez
Yuhui Choe
Steven McRae
Sarah Lamb
Valeri Hristov
Steven McRae
Carlos Acosta
Leanne Benjamin
Edward Watson
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Conductors

Dominic Grier
Robert Clark
Barry Wordsworth

About

MacMillan’s vision has been vital in shaping The Royal Ballet’s style and repertory, and what better way to appreciate his art than with this rare chance to experience three contrasting works in a single performance. Abstract, dramatic, humorous – this programme gives a wonderfully varied introduction not just to MacMillan’s work but to the beauty and dramatic power of ballet itself.

Concerto, to Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto, contrasts moments of exuberance and elegiac reflection. The Judas Tree places a single woman among 13 men to enact a harrowing event that is recognizably contemporary but with biblical overtones. Elite Syncopations completes the programme with a sparkling evocation of a dance hall that brings ragtime rhythms to the dance, and a ragtime band to the stage.

Contents:
Concerto
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich
Artists: Marianela Nuñez, Yuhui Choe, Steven McRae
Conductor: Dominic Grier

Elite Syncopations
Music: Scott Joplin & other Ragtime composers
Artists: Sarah Lamb, Valeri Hristov, Steven McRae
Conductor: Robert Clark

The Judas Tree
Music: Brian Elias
Artists: Carlos Acosta, Leanne Benjamin, Edward Watson
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, March 2010.

Extra feature: Introductions to each ballet piece by Deborah MacMillan

There has never been a choreographer that I can think of who could produce three such contrasting works, and you sit watching in wonderment at the fertile imaginings of his mind." - Telegraph

"It's grisly, and yet horribly exciting in its momentum, as the men show off to each other like skateboarders, flinging themselves into barrel turns while knotting and unknotting their legs." - The Independent

Running time: 104 mins
Region code: All regions
Picture format: 16:9 Anamorphic
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS digital
Menu language: EN
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/ES

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