Carmen - Viscera - Afternoon of a Faun - Tchaikovsky pas de deux / A Grand Ballet Odyssey: Masterpieces by Robbins, Balanchine, Scarlett, and Acosta 

• UPC 809478012122
• Playtime is 128 Minutes 

Product Freatures:

• Title: Carmen - Viscera Afternoon of a Faun - Tchaikovsky
• Format: DVD
• Label: BBC / Opus Arte
• Genre: Classical Artists
• Release Date: 2016
• Running time: APROX 118 MINUTES (BALLET) 10 MINUTES (FEATURES)

Summary:

A gorgeous mixed programme from The Royal Ballet with contrasting works by two of the world's greatest choreographers, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine, and two Royal Ballet home-grown talents: Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett and Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta. Scarlett's sensual and energising Viscera begins the programme; Afternoon of a Faun is Robbins's exquisite response to Debussy's langorous Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Tchaikovsky pas de deux is a bravura showpiece illustrating in miniature Balanchine's neo-classical style; and Acosta's Carmen, in which he also dances Don José in his farewell performance with The Royal Ballet, is a searingly dramatic reinterpretation of a timeless favourite.

Carlos Acosta focuses on the dramatic essentials of love, jealousy and revenge in his new production of Carmen. As well as choreographing the production, Acosta dances a lead role.

Liam Scarlett has used Lowell Liebermann’s thrilling Piano Concerto No.1 as the inspiration for his similarly audacious choreography in Viscera.

Debussy’s evocative score is the inspiration for Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun, which depicts two ballet dancers as absorbed by their own reflections as they are attracted to each other.

George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky pas de deux uses a fragment of music composed for the 1877 production of Swan Lake for an eight minute display of ballet bravura and technique.