The Sleeping Beauty - TCHAIKOVSKY / THE KIROV BALLET / IRINA KOLPAKOVA, SERGEI BEREZHNOI, LUBOV KUNAKOVA / Choreography MARIUS PETIPA / NVC Arts / DVD Video

UPC 0706301939628

The Sleeping Beauty is the grandest of all the surviving 19th-century ballets and the supreme achievement of the imperial Russian ballet. First performed in 1890 at the Maryinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, the ballet has been preserved in continuous performance by the company that created it. The way in which the heirs of the old imperial ballet continue to honour the choreographic genius of Marius Petipa and the glories of Tchaikovsky's score, means that The Sleeping Beauty is ideally to be seen in the interpretation of the Kirov Ballet whose performance in the company's 200th year in 1982 was captured in this presentation.

Leading the cast is Irina Kolpakova,
recognised as one of the former Soviet Union's greatest ballerinas and justly celebrated throughout the world for the beauty and clarity of her classic dancing in the role of Princess Aurora.

BALLET IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS | THE KIROV BALLET

Music: PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY 
Choreography: MARIUS PETIPA
Production staged by KONSTANTIN SERGEYEV
Designs by: S.B. VIRSALADZE
Directed for video by: ELENA MACHERET

Orchestra of the Leningrad Theatre of Opera and Ballet

Conductor: VIKTOR FEDOTOV
Princess Aurora: IRINA KOLPAKOVA
Prince Désiré: SERGEI BEREZHNOI
The Lilac Fairy: LUBOV KUNAKOVA
King Florestan: VLADIMIR PONOMARYOV
The Queen: ANGELINA KABAROVA
Carabosse:  VLADIMIR LOPUKHOV

TOTAL DURATION: APPROX: 166 MINS

PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC 4:3

COLOUR DISC FORMAT: DVD-9 DOLBY 

REGION CODE: 2,3,4,5

DIGITAL 2.0 STEREO

• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Classical, Import, NTSC
• Release date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2008
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Kirov Ballet, Irina Kolpakova, Sergei Berezhnoi, Lyubov Kunakova
• Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Italian (PCM)
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0009XCCKO
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1