Innocent peasant girl jilted by her lover is driven mad, dies, and enters the graveyard world of the Wilis, ghosts of vengeful brides betrayed by undeserving suitors.
The Lepzig Ballet performs Uwe Scholz's The Great Mass in a performance captured live at the Leipzig Opera on June 28, 2005 and directed for the screen by Hans Hulscher. Michael Goldhahn recites, Eunyee You and Marie-Claude Chappuis sing soprano, Werner Güra sings tenor, and Friedmann Röhlig sings...
* egendary Swedish choreographer Mats Ek’s ballet was created for the dancers of the Opéra National de Paris and is here danced by star names including Nicolas Le Riche and Marie-Agnès Gillot
* The name “Appartement” comes both from the word for a living space but also from...
Balanchine's three-part, evening-long ballet, Jewels, is one of the jewels of his output. Created in 1967, Jewels revisits the central pillars of his glorious career. Thus, the first of the trio, Emeralds, to music by Fauré, is an homage to the French school of ballet; a Romantic episode in which...
