Opera and Ballet Favourites. 1993.

Nutcracker Grand pas de deux:

http://youtu.be/5KCaO73bP_8

Snowflakes:

http://youtu.be/Zl02kaIfKWY

Sleeping Beauty PDD:

http://youtu.be/vOia3V4wfrI

Tchaikovsky PDD:

http://youtu.be/_MCic_Ol1Qo

Madame Larina's Ball:

http://youtu.be/Wsh8p138ti4

Anastasia PDD:

http://youtu.be/UpFhXe3VZfQ

Winter Dreams. RB. 1992.

Watch Winter Dreams Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7RT04vbII

Mayerling. RB. 1994.

Watch The Performance Here:

http://youtu.be/oZ2pUQ-FJ0k

The Royal Ballet presents a stellar cast in Kenneth MacMillan's daring and powerful ballet, filmed in 1994,
with John Lanchbery's sumptuous scoring of music by Franz Liszt.
The dramatic soundscape is matched by MacMillan's penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding
the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his young mistress,
Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling in January 1889.
Crown Prince Rudolf: Irek Mukhamedov
Baroness Mary Vetsera: Viviana Durante
Mitzi Caspar: Darcey Bussell
Countess Marie Larisch: Lesley Collier
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
The Royal Ballet
Kenneth MacMillan, choreographer
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 1 and 5 February 1994.

The Sleeping Beauty. RB. 1994.

Watch The Sleeping Beauty Here: 

http://youtu.be/FhzV1TwyLa4

This ballet may be Tchaikovsky's grandest achievement, The Nutcracker's eternal popularity notwithstanding. 

And when in the hands (and feet!) of the Royal Ballet, whose superlative 1994 production has been taped for posterity, 

the composer's singular genius for dance becomes palpable to even the most casual viewers. 

With choreography by Marius Petipa (who updates Kenneth Macmillan's and Anthony Dowell's work from earlier stagings) and with Dowell's lovely production, 

the Royal Ballet demonstrates yet again its preeminence in the world of ballet. 

Viviana Durante dances the princess with otherworldly grace and fluidity, and her partner Zoltan Solymosi's prince is impossibly agile and equally graceful. 

Dowell even contributes wonderful comic relief as the evil fairy. 

Barry Wordsworth and the Royal Orchestra do Tchaikovsky's beautiful score, and the remarkable dancers, justice. 

A ballet company at its considerable performing peak has been preserved for all. --Kevin Filipski

"A production to last into the next century", this Royal Ballet performance of Tchaikovsky's beloved fairy tale features an all-star cast. 

Cast:

Viviana Durante: Princess Aurora

Zoltan Solymosi: Prince Florimund

Anthony Dowell: Carabosse

Benazir Hussein: The Lilac Fairy

William Tuckett: King Florestan

Elizabeth McGorian: The Queen

David Drew: Court Chamberlain Cattabutte