Swan lake [videorecording] : the Royal Ballet / NVC Arts presents a Thames Television production in association with Covent Garden Video Productions Limited ; music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; [produced and directed for television by] John Michael Phillips.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: D1408 | KulturPublication details: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2003], c1982.Description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0769714080
- Senior cameraman, Peter Shaw; scenery, costumes, Leslie Hurry; videotape editor, Camilla Keenan; narrator, Michael Hordern.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | MUSIC Swan lak | Available | 33111003998602 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovski's classic Swan Lake in this performance featuring designs by the late Leslie Hurry and lead performances by acclaimed dancers Natalia Makarova and Anthony Dowell. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov; additional choreography by Frederick Ashton, Rudolf Nureyev.
Title from container.
Senior cameraman, Peter Shaw; scenery, costumes, Leslie Hurry; videotape editor, Camilla Keenan; narrator, Michael Hordern.
Natalia Makarova, Anthony Dowell, Gerd Larsen, Derek Rencher; Royal Ballet, Norman Morrice, director; Orchestra of Sadler's Wells Ballet, Ashley Lawrence, conductor; artists of the Royal Ballet Company.
Recorded July 28, 1980 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
Prince Siegfried sees a swan on the lake who turns into the enchanted princess Odette. She can only be saved by the true love of another. This the Prince promises her, but he is tricked by a wicked magician who disguises his daughter as the swan-maiden. Siegfried and his love leap to their death thus destroying the evil power of the magician.
DVD, Dolby digital.