Genre:

Opera; Ballet

Release Date:

Oct 2008

Recorded:

1993

Number of Discs:

1

Sound:

LPCM 2.0

Subtitles:

EN

Territory Exclusions:

USA

Aspect Ratio:

4:3

Display:

NTSC

Catalog Number:

OAR3110D

Opera & Ballet Favourites

Tchaikovsky: The Snow Maiden - The Dance of the Clowns; The Nutcracker - Snowflakes; Grand pas de deux; Net, tol’ko tot, kto znal; The Queen of Spades - Ya vas lyublyu bezmerno; Akh, istomilas' ya gorem; Iolanta - Gospod' moy, yesti greshen ya; 1812 Overture; Anastasia - Pas de duex; Eugene Onegin - Kuda, kuda vi udalilis; Larina Ball; The Sleeping Beauty - Pas de deux; Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko - Song of the Varangian Trader; Song of the Venetian Trader; Rachmaninov: Aleko - Ves tabor spit; Puccini: La bohème - Musetta's Aria

Plácido Domingo (Tenor); Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone); Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano); Darcey Bussell (Ballet Dancer); Irek Mukhamedov (Ballet Dancer);

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Edward Downes; Barry Wordsworth; Stephen Barlow; Plácido Domingo

Stage Director(s): John Cox

The 1993 Winter Gala Concert from the stage of the Royal Opera House sees a stellar array of the world’s greatest artists celebrate the music of Tchaikovsky - composer of many of the all-time opera, concert and ballet favourites, including The Queen of Spades, the 1812 Overture and The Nutcracker.

Reviews

"a dazzling evening in the company of a galaxy of stars from The Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera…an unsurpassable celebration of opera and ballet." (The Daily Telegraph)