Great Ballets from the Bolshoi (Bel Air Classique, 4 DVDs)

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Adam: Giselle
Recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow (2011)
Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Choreographic version Yuri Grigorovich
Designer Simon Virsaladze
Svetlana Lunkina (Giselle), Dmitry Gudanov (Count Albrecht), Vitaly Biktimirov (Hans), Elena Bukanova (Berthe), Ekaterina Barykina (Bathilde), Alexey Loparevich (Duke), Vladislav Lantratov (Wilfreed), Yulia Grebenshchikova, Anna Okuneva, Anna Tikhomirova, Ana Turazashvili, Maria Vinogradova, Angelina Vlashinets (Giselle’s friends), Maria Allash (Myrtha, the Queen of Wilis), Olga Kishnyova, Victoria Osipova (Two Wilis) & Chinara Alizade, Andrey Bolotin (Peasant Pas de Deux)
Pavel Klinichev

Asafyev: Les Flammes De Paris
Recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow (2010)
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky
Original Choreography by Vasily Vaynonen
Design: Ilya Utkin & Evgeny Monakhov
Costumes: Yelena Markovskaya
Lighting: Damir Ismagilov
Natalia Osipova (Jeanne), Denis Savin (Jerome), Ivan Vasiliev (Philippe, un Marseillais), Yuri Klevtsov (Marquis Costa de Beauregard), Nina Kaptsova (Adeline), Anna Antonicheva (Mireille de Poitiers) & Ruslan Skvortsov (Antoine Mistral)
Pavel Sorokin

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow (2010)
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
Set and costume designs Simon Virsaladze
Lighting design Mikhail Sokolov
Nina Kaptsova (Marie), Artem Ovcharenko (Prince), Denis Savin (Drosselmeyer), Alexey Loparevich (Stahlbaum), Olga Suvorova (Mrs. Stahlbaum), Pavel Dmitrichenko (Mouse King), Victoria Litvinova (She-Devil) & Morikhiro Ivata (He-Devil)
Pavel Klinichev

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
Recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow (2011)
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich, Nov 2011
Sets Designed by Ezio Frigerio
Costumes Designed by Franca Squarciapino
David Hallberg (Prince Désiré), Svetlana Zakharova (Princess Aurora), Maria Allash (Lilac Fairy), Artem Ovcharenko (Bluebird) & Nina Kaptsova (Princess Florine)
Vassily Sinaisky

01. Adolphe Adam: Giselle
02. Boris Asafyev: Les Flammes De Paris
03. Pjotr Iljitsch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
04. Pjotr Iljitsch Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66