Since you are interested in La Fille Du Pharon (The Pharaoh's Daughter), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / FAURE / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Proust, or How The Heart Skips A Beat (complete ballet recorded in 2007) Choreography by Roland Petit Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris / Stéphanie Romberg / Eleonora Abbagnato / Manuel Legris / Koen Kessels (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / Harmonia Mundi Distibution / DVD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] G - In 1974, Roland Petit, probably the greatest and certainly one of the most prolific of 20th century French choreographers he was the first person to create a work based on Proust's novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, completed in 1922, the... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
The Bolt (complete ballet recorded in 2006) The Bolshoi Ballet / Anasrasia Yatsenko / Andrei Merkuriev / Denis Savin / Morikhiro Iwata / Pavel Sorokin (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 20/May/2007 ] G :- Composed in 1931 by Dimitri Shostakovich The Bolt, after a book by Viktor Smirnov, is being staged for the first time in more than 70 years. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky conceived for the Bolshoi, a ballet of the absurd set in a Soviet... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera recorded at the paris Opera in 2008) Bolshoi Theatre / Marius Kwiecien / Makvala Kasrashvili / Tatiana Monogarova / Alexander Vedernikov (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / 2 DVD - released 10/May/2009 ] G - "Kwiecien is scoring a triumph in the title role, a part everywhere identified with his immediate predecessor, Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky…Kwiecien commands the stage with his good looks, rich and resonant voice and the volatile... |
LUDWIG MINKUS
Minkus: Don Quixote (complete ballet recorded in 2006) Mariinsky Ballet / Vladimir Ponomarev / Anton Lukovkin / Olesya Novikova / Pavel Bubelnikov (cond) [ Decca Music Group / DVD - released 3/Aug/2009 ] G - A breath-taking ensemble performance of Petipa's popular Don Quichotte, loosely based on Cervantes famous novel, from the world-renowned Mariinsky Ballet. |
HINDEMITH
Cardillac (complete opera recorded in 2005) Paris National Opera / Alan Held / Angela Denoke / Christopher Ventris / Kent Nagano (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 24/Jul/2007 ] G :- Cardillac is a master jeweller who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship. |
J.S. BACH
Cello Suites (complete ballet recorded in 2004 with choreography by Heinz Spoerli) Zurich Ballet / Claudius Herrmann (cello) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] G :- The choreography mixes solos, pas de deux, trios and ensemble work. Beginning and ending with a near-identical solo, the cycle is dominated by circularity. The duets are virtuoso gems, athleticism made dance. |