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, tolko 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 worlds 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)