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The fairy tales of your childhood like you've never seen before: plunge into a magic world where animals speak and where fairies exist...
Music is magic. That's what the very first opera in history says: in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the lyre appears like the only way to charm the most unyielding of all, the prince of the underworld. Music expresses the inexpressible, depicts imaginary worlds. Thus, no wonder that the opera dives into the fantastic universe. But moving away from the mythological figures bequeathed from the antic theatre, 19th century composers explored the fairy-tale world...
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With Aurélia Schaefer (Cinderella), Francesco Nappa (Prince), Bernice Coppieters (Fairy/Mother) – Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
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Royal Ballet of Flanders
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Alina Somova (Masha the Princess), Vladimir Shklyarov (The Nutcracker Prince), Alexandra Korshunova (Masha)... – Mariinsky Theater Ballet Company
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Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio, François Alu – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
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Lis Jeppesen (La Sylphide), Nikolaj Hübbe (James), Sorella Englund (Madge) – Royal Danish Ballet
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Dorothée Gilbert (Swanilda), José Martinez (Coppélius), and Mathias Heymann (Frantz)
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Stefan Herheim (stage director), Ádám Fischer (conductor) – With Myrtò Papatanasiu (Rusalka) and Pavel Černoch (Prince)...
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Alina Cojocaru (Princess Aurora), Federico Bonelli (Prince Florimund), Christopher Saunders (King Florestan XXIV) – The Royal Ballet
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Peter Hall (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Ruxandra Donose (Cenerentola)...
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André Engel (stage director), Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) – With Elena Tsallagova (The Vixen), Paul Gay (Harašta)
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Achim Freyer (stage director), Kent Nagano (conductor) – With Sally Matthews, Dietrich Henschel...
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Agnès Letestu (Cinderella), José Martinez (The movie star) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Giancarlo del Monaco (stage director), Alain Guingal (conductor) – With Aquiles Machado (Hoffman), Milagros Poblador (Olympia) – Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao
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Johannes Felsenstein (stage director), Markus L. Frank (music director) – Anhaltisches Theater, Dessau
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Lyon Opera Ballet
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Svetlana Beriosova, Violetta Elvin, Alicia Markova, John Field...
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Agnès Letestu (Odette), José Martinez (Siegfried) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Jonathan Kent (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Lucy Crowe, Ed Lyon, Adrian Ward...
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Waldbühne 2006: Sheherazade, An Oriental Night – Berliner Philharmoniker
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Daniel Barenboim (conductor) – Staatsoper Berlin
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Pierre Audi (stage director), Riccardo Muti (conductor) – With Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night) and René Pape (Sarastro)...
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Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
