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Darcey Bussell and Roberto Bolle star in Frederick Ashton's Sylvia, restored to the splendour of its elegant and opulent three-act form for the 75th...

Genre: Music

Cast: Darcey Bussell

Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anna Chancellor

"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Danielle de Niese

The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Graham-Hall

Carlos Acosta's first venture directing one of ballet's 19th century classics was eagerly anticipated, as was his own starring role in the production...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marianela Núñez

Staging directors Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser infuse German composer Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera with more than a dollop of black...

Genre: Music

Cast: Angelika Kirchschlager

Live from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde –...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nadja Michael

Miyako Yoshida dances the title role originally created for Margot Fonteyn in the hauntingly beautiful underwater world of Ondine, vividly brought to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Werner Henze

This Wagner opera is rarely performed because of the scandals that engulfed the Magdeburg Theatre when it was performed in 1836 under the title The...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christopher Maltman

The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Stroumsa

Leonard Bernstein was on his honeymoon in 1951 when he began composing his one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, a candid portrait of the troubled...

Genre: Music

Cast: Karl Daymond

The Bayreuth Festival mounted this 2009 production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde, with Michael Beyer directing. It stars Robert...

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Dean Smith

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Daniel Barenboim

All-time classical favourites from the first ever public concert held in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, hosted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II....

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Parkinson

"Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Topi Lehtipuu

Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969. The Trout...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Itzhak Perlman

Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet. Its title role, one of the most technically demanding and emotionally challenging in the classical...

Genre: Music

Cast: Alina Cojocaru

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – The Royal Ballet

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Natalia Osipova

After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty. He meets Didon, Queen of Carthage,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bryan Hymel

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pageantry of Verdi's Egyptian opera, presented here...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hui He