Carlos Acosta focuses on the dramatic essentials of love, jealousy and revenge in his new production of Carmen. As well as choreographing the production, Acosta dances a lead role.

Liam Scarlett has used Lowell Liebermann’s thrilling Piano Concerto No.1 as the inspiration for his similarly audacious choreography in Viscera.

Debussy’s evocative score is the inspiration for Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun, which depicts two ballet dancers as absorbed by their own reflections as they are attracted to each other.

George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky pas de deux uses a fragment of music composed for the 1877 production of Swan Lake for an eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique.

‘…Carlos Acosta…. famous not only for his buoyant, big-hearted technique, but because his personality has captured imaginations.’ - The Evening Standard

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, October 2015

Viscera
- Laura Morera
- Marianela Nuñez
- Ryoichi Hirano
Choreography: Liam Scarlett
Music: Lowell Liebermann

Afternoon of a Faun
- Sarah Lamb
- Vadim Muntagirov
Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Music: Claude Debussy

Carmen
- Marianela Nuñez
- Carlos Acosta
- Federico Bonelli
- Matthew Golding
Choreography: Carlos Acosta
Music: Georges Bizet (arr. Martin Yates)

Tchaikovsky pas de deux
- Iana Salenko
- Steven McRae
Choreography: George Balanchine
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Running time: 118 minutes
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS