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Performing Arts

Performance Arts have been generally merged into the more classical forms of stagecraft, ie. Ballet, Dance, Opera, Theatre and Gilbert & Sullivan, and are listed by title below. Performing music, both studio and live performance are best found under "Music Capsule". Right: The spectacular troupe of "Cirque du Soleil".

Nabucco (2000)

8.3/10
Starring: Walter Donati, Galiana Kalanina, Alessandro Teliga, Malgorzata Walewska

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's death, his 4-part biblical epic was filmed at St Margarethen in Austria in 2000, with Wal... Read more

Le Nozze di Figaro ( The Marriage of Figaro ) (2003)

7.5/10
Director: Enrico Castiglione
Starring: Rossana Potenza, Marco Grimaldi, Madelyn Renee Monti

Based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, "Le Nozze di Figaro" ("The Marriage of Figaro") was composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Altho... Read more

La Sylphide (1988)

8.4/10
Director: Thomas Grimm
Starring: Nikolaj Hubbe, Sorella Englund, Lis Jeppesen

When Lis Jeppesen - the Sylphide of our time - in diaphanous white costume and with shining wings, dances for the Scottish farmer James, whom she has... Read more

Snow White (Ballet) (2009)

7.6/10
Director: Angelin Preljocaj

Established in 1984, the Ballet Preljocaj troupe present one of their most acclaimed pieces, "Snow White", a contemporary and romantic adaptation of t... Read more

Duran Duran: Unstaged (2011)

6.7/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Duran Duran

Acclaimed director David Lynch gears up to direct a live online concert with legendary pop icons Duran Duran. Originally streamed live as a part of UN... Read more

Aida (2007)

5.5/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Violeta Urmana, Roberto Alagna

Franco Zeffirelli's return to La Scala after more than 20 years was an operatic sensation. Under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Chailly, a superb cast... Read more

Patience (1981)

7.2/10
Director: Dave Heather
Starring: John Fryatt, Patricia Hay, Derek Hammond-Stroud

The Aesthetic Movement that swept English art and literature in the late 1800s, counting Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler among its proponents,... Read more

Riverdance: The Documentary (2005)

7.7/10

This documentary celebrates the rise of Riverdance from a seven minute Eurovision Song Contest interval in 1994 to a global dance phenomenon. Detailin... Read more

The Royal Ballet (1959)

8.6/10
Director: Paul Czinner
Starring: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes

An excellently filmed performance of three separate ballet segments, The Royal Ballet begins each segment with a synopsis of the story about to be unv... Read more

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (Blu-ray 3D) (2012)

6.8/10
Director: Andrew Adamson
Starring: Erica Linz, Igor Zaripov

The world-renowned acrobatic entertainers shine once more in this visually extravagant odyssey in which a young woman's enchantment with an aerial per... Read more