"Actor: Bolshoi Theatre"

• Return Of The Firebird | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A ballet DVD to delight fans of the classics 'Firebird' 'Petrushka' and 'Scheherazade'.

• The Stone Flower - Prokofiev | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £5.29   |  Saving you £10.96 (271.96%)   |  RRP £14.99

  First performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1954 this ballet draws on the rich heritage of Russian folklore to tell the tale of the young stonemason Danila who must choose between his village sweetheart Katerina and a magical temptress. It is based on fairy tales from the Urals collected by Pavel Bazhov and set in the middle of the 19th century.In Stone Flower you can feel Prokofiev's resignation after the hard struggle with the political situation but nevertheless he hasn't lost his brilliance and the music of his last ballet still is full of catchy tunes and joyousness.However with the completion of his composition it took four years before it received its premiere in Moscow and was not a great success at all. It was only three years later with the choreography of Yuri Grigorovich that Prokofiev's Stone Flower finally come to a glorious resurrection. The young choreographer simplified the story and focussed on nothing but the dance. The ballet became his first major success. The presented version shows a reproduction of this choreography from 1957 which has become immortal.

• Romeo And Juliet - Prokofiev | DVD | (24/09/2004) from £4.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (201.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)Romeo and JulietBallet in three actsLibretto by Sergei Pokofiev Sergei Radlov and Adrian PiotrovskyBased on the play by William ShakespeareRevised choreography by Yuri Grigorovich based on the choreography by Leonid LavrovskyJuliet Natalya BessmertnovaRomeo Irek MukhamedovMercutio Mikhail SharkovTybalt Aleksandr VetrovThe Bolshoi Theatre OrchestraAlgis ZhuraitisRecorded at the Bolshoi Theatre 1989

• Spartacus - Khachaturian | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  SpartacusBallet in Three Acts.Recorded At The Bolshoi Theatre 1990.

• Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky | DVD | (24/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Swan Lake From the Bolshoi Theatre 1989Ballet in Two Acts Four Scenes

• Raymonda - Aleksandr Glazunov | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of the Glazunov ballet written in 1898. Yuri Grogorovich choreographs based on the original choreography by Marius Petipa and Alexander Grosky....

• Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ballet in Three Acts and a Prologue.

• The Bolshoi Theatre - Swan Lake | DVD | (19/12/2011) from £15.15   |  Saving you £-0.16 (-1.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Piotr Ilyich Tchaïkovsky was born on May, 7th 1840 in Russia, in Oural. His father was an enginner of Ukrainian descent who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Department of Mines and his mother was really a beautiful woman but suffered from psychic instabilitie. When he was 5 y.o, he received his first piano lessons. Really passionate by the music, he started to study composition and instrumentation with Anton Rubinstein. On June 1854, the composer suffered the shock of his mother's death from cholera. Tchaïkovsky's career really started in 1869. In 1876, he began a 13-year association with Nadezha Von Meck, a wealthy widow. Her support became an important element in Tchaïkovsky's life because she paid and allowed him to resign from the Moscow Conservatory in 1878 to concentrate on compisition. From 1880, he often made trips to Florence in one of Miss Von Meck's property. There, he will compose several masterpieces as The Queen of Spades. On November 6th, 1893, Tchaïkovsky, like his mother, died from cholera !! He leave behind him some immortal classical masterpieces such as Swan Lake (composed in 1876, he will have to wait 19 years until this ballet would be performed in Saint Petersburg), The Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Eugène Onéguine, Mazeppa, The Queen of Spades. Composer : P. TCHAIKOVSKI Year of Production : 1983 Time : 2h26 Directors : I. GRIGOROITCH & I. SELEZNEV Conductor : A. JURAITIS Soloist : Natalia BESSMERTNOVA , Alexander BOGATIREV

• Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin (Ermler Gavrilova Redkin)

• Rodin Schedrin / Yuri Simonov - Anna Karenina | DVD | (13/10/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A