 Gala Tribute to Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky pas de deux, excerpts from Anastasia, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, plus opera excerpts. Bussel, Collier, Durante, Mukhamedov, Sansom, The Royal Ballet and Opera companies.
Published: 2001 A gala performance at the Royal Opera House, given in 1993 to celebrate the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death. A mixture of ballet and opera, the former including Darcey Bussell and Zoltan Solymosi in Balanchine's Tchaikovsky pas de deux, Leanne Benjamin and Tetsuya Kumakawa in the pas de deux from act II of The Nutcracker, Viviana Durante and Bruce Sansom in the act II pas de deux from Anastasia, and Lesley Collier and Irek Mukhamedov in the last act pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty. Opera artists appearing include Placido Domino, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Paata Burchuladze, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Sergei Leiferkus. [Coded for region 2 only: the UK, Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, and South Africa.] |
