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".
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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