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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".

Don Quixote (1973)

7.6/10
Director: Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev
Starring: Rudolf Nureyev, Robert Helpmann, Ray Powell

Rudolf Nureyev stars and co-directs this film version of the famous ballet, with Lucette Aldous and Sir Robert Helpmann in the title roles, with the d... Read more

Liza with a Z (1972)

8.6/10
Starring: Liza Minnelli

See the legendary Liza Minnelli at the height of her powers in this dazzlingly entertaining musical special. After capturing Oscar gold for "Cabaret,"... Read more

I Am A Dancer (1972)

7.2/10
Director: Pierre Jourdan
Starring: Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Carla Fracci

A portrait of the great Rudolf Nureyev, from his homely beginnings in 1938 to one of the century's great dancers and superstars. Includes excerpts fro... Read more

Lakme (1971)

Starring: Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge

Recorded in 1971 at the Sydney Opera House, this performance of Delibes' opera has been restored and re-released, and it captures soprano Joan Sutherl... Read more

The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)

Director: Reginald Mills
Starring: The Royal Ballet, Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin

The Royal Ballet, in association with the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, presents a program based on the children's stories of Beatrix Potter. Ma... 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

Romeo and Juliet (Harvey) / Romeo and Juliet (Ballet) (1954)

5.5/10
Director: Paul Czinner, Renato Castellani
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Flora Robson, Susan Shentall, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev

"Romeo and Juliet" (1954) - Laurence Harvey stars in this commanding interpretation of the Bard's great tale of star-crossed lovers. Stunningly photog... Read more

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

7.4/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville

Jacques Offenbach's fantasy work is magnificently brought to the screen by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ('The Red Shoes'). Robert Rounseville... Read more

The Red Shoes ( Blu-ray ) (1948)

8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...

'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more

The Red Shoes (1948)

8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...

'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more