The Bolshoi’s grandiose epic Spartacus recounts the story of a Roman slave’s fight for freedom. With its famous Khachaturian score, since the 1960s it has been considered one of the greatest ballets in the Bolshoi repertoire. The choreography by Yuri Grigorovich fills the Bolshoi stage with dynamic scenes of tension and conflict, and gives full expression to the virility and strength for which Russia’s male dancers are renowned.
Four outstanding works by world-renowned Czech dancer and choreographer Jiří Kylián performed for th...

"Lady of the Camellias" (Kameliendame) was premiered in Jan 1978 at the Stuttgart ballet. Choreograp...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Going to see Nutcracker with the whole family has been a tradition in other countries for many years...

With the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and conductor Brian Castles-Onion, a gritty set desig...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Christopher Wheeldon's acclaimed new Cinderella for the Dutch National Ballet is an imaginative inte...

A pair of short ballets, written for the screen, filmed and performed by artists of the Georgian SSR...

This all-time ballet favourite, in which young Clara is swept into a fantasy adventure when one of h...

During a Christmas Eve party and a young girl, Clara, being given a nutcracker doll by her godfather...

The Merry Widow, a beguiling, romantic ballet starring Patricia McBride and Peter Martins.
Eugen Suchoň's ballet Angelika is historically the first Slovak ballet in staged form, depicting the...

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on ...

Inspired by heroic stories of brave knights, Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful servant Sanch...

A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to per...

The story of Don Quixote tells of the old knight who dreams of chivalry and his comic squire, Sancho...

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and g...

To speak of that ballet is very difficult because the theme is so popular as a fairy tale, adapted b...

Whirlwinds, burning forests, erased cities – the centuries-old artworks housed in the Louvre strongl...