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The Ballet Box
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Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty & The Nutcracker.
Swan Lake. This classic Kirov production of Swan Lake includes the familiar happy ending in the final act, where Siegfried fights and ultimately defeats the evil magician, von Rothbart, and at dawn is reunited with Odette.[ Running Time: 115 mins. The Kirov Ballet. Cast: Yulia Makhalina, Igor Zelensky, Angelina Kashrina, Yuri Fateyev 1990. Region Code: NTSC 2-5*.]
The Sleeping Beauty is the grandest of all the surviving 19th century ballets and the supreme achievement of the imperial Russian ballet. First performed in 1890 at the Maryinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, the ballet has been preserved in continuous performance by the company that created it. [Running Time: 166 mins. The Kirov Ballet. Cast: Irina Kolpakova, Sergei Berezhnoi, Lubov Kunakova, Vladimir Lopukhov, Vladimir Ponomaryov 1982. Region Code: NTSC 2-5*]
The Nutcracker. Fantasy and magic are the essential ingredients of The Nutcracker and Tchaikovsky's imaginative score helps bring to life the fantasy world of E.T.A Hoffmann's story. [ Running Time: 99 mins. The Royal Ballet. Cast: Lesley Collier, Anthony Dowell, Michael Coleman, Julie Rose, Guy Niblett, Jonathan Cope 1985. Region Code: PAL 2-6]
(*In PAL regions (eg Europe, Australia & Africa) ensure your DVD player and TV are NTSC compatible.)
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