Chamber Music & Recitals

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'or) is based on a Pushkin folk tale, but the opera's Orientalism, comedy and sultry elements go far beyond it's original influence. The composer saw in the story of a Tsar, punished for his cowardice and...

Jean-Joseph Cassan?a de Mondonville was greatly admired in his day. His opera Titon et l'Aurore was one of his most popular works, being held up as a triumph over the rival Italian style during the Parisian Querelle des Bouffons in the 1750s. The...

A breath of fresh air is blowing over the Ural Opera Ballet with this new version of Paquita, halfway between tradition and modernity! A festive ballet recounting the thwarted loves of a gypsy and an officer, Paquita marked the debut of Marius Petipa in...

Der fliegende Holl?nder is considered to be the first 'true' Wagner opera. The story of the phantom ship and it's haunted master becomes a sensually charged drama with love and tragic sacrifice at it's heart, and this original 1841 version leaves the...

A sparkling personality on the contemporary dance scene, Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman has been invited for the first time to work with the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. His language, both visceral and tinged with humor, combining...

Ciboulette Blu-Ray

Rigoletto is regarded as the first operatic masterpiece of Verdi's mature artistic period. It's complex psychology identifies characters with different styles of music, and with an incredible variety of accents for a central figure conceived by the...

Gluck's influential Orph?e et Eurydice tells the story of Orph?e's descent into the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice. His singing has the power to overcome the guardian Furies, but the path of true love is shadowed by sorrow and tragedy. As a...

I am interested in the way that, right now, we are having to recalibrate our existence and to rethink our humanity: our relationship to the world, to it's changes and it's history. At turning points there is always a chance of finding but sadly also of...

Kes reimagined is a new film by award-winning choreographer Jonathan Watkins and International Emmy award-winning director Ross MacGibbon, based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. Jonathan Watkins's acclaimed production was conceived and...

The opera La campana sommersa ('The Sunken Bell') is Respighi's operatic masterpiece. A symbolist drama on a supernatural theme, it is steeped in beauty, mystery and foreboding, and orchestrated with the Romantic opulence familiar from his sumptuous...

Amar Blu-Ray