Tchaikovsky LAC AfterAfter SWAN LAKE · Guillotel, and performed to a specially conceived and...
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- Extra features: A cast gallery. RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2014 Tchaikovsky LAC LAC LAC LAC After After After After SWAN LAKE SWAN LAKE SWAN LAKE SWAN LAKE Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Le Cynge Blanc Anja Behrend Le Cynge Noir April Ball Le Prince Stephan Bourgond The King Alvaro Prieto The Queen Mimoza Koike Le Confident du Prince Jeroen Verbruggen Sa Majesté la Nuit Bernice Coppieters Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Choreography Jean Christophe Maillot Conductor Leonard Slatkin Recorded live at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2013 1 x DVD / 1 x Blu-ray Catalogue numbers: OA1148D / OABD7154D Dealer prices: £17.01 (DVD) / £20.41 (BLU-RAY) Barcodes: 809478011484 (DVD) / 809478071549 (BLU-RAY) Running time: 94 minutes Subtitles: N/A Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS Jean-Christophe Maillot has re-worked Swan Lake with the writer Jean Rouaud (1990 Prix Goncourt winner) to bring a new drama to this pillar of the classic repertoire. This new adaptation, filmed in a special studio-setting at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, brings a modern-day relevance to the timeless story of Siegfried and Odette. Designed by leading visual artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, with costumes by Philippe Guillotel, and performed to a specially conceived and mastered soundtrack of Tchaikovsky’s score performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leonard Slatkin, the production has been hailed as ‘outstanding’ (Le Figaro), while the Jerusalem Post asserted ‘Swan Lake will never be the same after the tempestous Lac’. This film of Lac won the top award at the 2103 Golden Prague, as ‘Best Performing Arts Program’, where it was described as ‘A ravishing stage production offering the spectator a thrilling interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece through contemporary dance’. What the press said: ‘‘Swan Lake has never cast such a chill.’’ Suddeutsche Zeitung ‘‘A major production, a work where the modern and traditional are combined in a timeless meeting. Here, quality is all-important, and it shows in every movement.’’ ABC Related product: Adam: GISELLE (OA1144D/OABD7151D) Talbot: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (OA1056D/OABD7090D) Tchaikovsky: SWAN LAKE (OA 1015 D/ OA BD7042 D) Tchaikovsky: THE CLASSIC BALLETS (OA1119D/OABD7131D)
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- Extra features: A cast gallery.
RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2014
Tchaikovsky
LACLACLACLAC AfterAfterAfterAfter SWAN LAKESWAN LAKESWAN LAKESWAN LAKE Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Le Cynge Blanc Anja Behrend Le Cynge Noir April Ball Le Prince Stephan Bourgond The King Alvaro Prieto The Queen Mimoza Koike Le Confident du Prince Jeroen Verbruggen Sa Majesté la Nuit Bernice Coppieters Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Choreography Jean Christophe Maillot Conductor Leonard Slatkin Recorded live at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2013 1 x DVD / 1 x Blu-ray Catalogue numbers: OA1148D / OABD7154D Dealer prices: £17.01 (DVD) / £20.41 (BLU-RAY) Barcodes: 809478011484 (DVD) / 809478071549 (BLU-RAY) Running time: 94 minutes Subtitles: N/A Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
Jean-Christophe Maillot has re-worked Swan Lake with the writer Jean Rouaud (1990 Prix Goncourt winner) to bring a new drama to this pillar of the classic repertoire. This new adaptation, filmed in a special studio-setting at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, brings a modern-day relevance to the timeless story of Siegfried and Odette. Designed by leading visual artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, with costumes by Philippe Guillotel, and performed to a specially conceived and mastered soundtrack of Tchaikovsky’s score performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leonard Slatkin, the production has been hailed as ‘outstanding’ (Le Figaro), while the Jerusalem Post asserted ‘Swan Lake will never be the same after the tempestous Lac’. This film of Lac won the top award at the 2103 Golden Prague, as ‘Best Performing Arts Program’, where it was described as ‘A ravishing stage production offering the spectator a thrilling interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece through contemporary dance’.
What the press said:
‘‘Swan Lake has never cast such a chill.’’ Suddeutsche Zeitung
‘‘A major production, a work where the modern and traditional are combined in a timeless meeting. Here, quality is all-important, and it shows in every movement.’’ ABC
Related product: Adam: GISELLE (OA1144D/OABD7151D) Talbot: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (OA1056D/OABD7090D) Tchaikovsky: SWAN LAKE (OA 1015 D/ OA BD7042 D) Tchaikovsky: THE CLASSIC BALLETS (OA1119D/OABD7131D)
