Fairy Tales in Music (26)

Cinderella by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Prokofiev

With Aurélia Schaefer (Cinderella), Francesco Nappa (Prince), Bernice Coppieters (Fairy/Mother) – Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Scheherazade by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Rimsky-Korsakov

Bernice Coppieters (Zobéïde), Jérôme Marchand (The Sultan Shariar), Oliviers Lucea (The big Eunuch)... – Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Swan Lake by Nureyev after Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio, François Alu – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

The Nutcracker by Vainonen after Petipa and Ivanov, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Somova (Masha the Princess), Vladimir Shklyarov (The Nutcracker Prince), Alexandra Korshunova (Masha)... – Mariinsky Theater Ballet Company

• Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Exhibition by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Ma mère l'Oye by Jeroen Verbruggen, music by Ravel

Royal Ballet of Flanders

• Flanders Opera (Andwerp, Belgium)

La Sylphide by August Bournonville, music by Herman Løvenskiold

Lis Jeppesen (La Sylphide), Nikolaj Hübbe (James), Sorella Englund (Madge) – Royal Danish Ballet

• Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Coppélia by Patrice Bart, music by Léo Delibes

With Dorothée Gilbert (Swanilda), José Martinez (Coppélius) and Mathias Heymann (Frantz)

Dvořák's Rusalka

Ádám Fischer, Stefan Herheim – With Myrtò Papatanasiu (Rusalka) and Pavel Černoch (Prince)

Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Cojocaru (Princess Aurora), Federico Bonelli (Prince Florimund), Christopher Saunders (King Florestan XXIV) – The Royal Ballet

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland (world premiere)

Achim Freyer (stage director), Kent Nagano (conductor) – With Sally Matthews, Dietrich Henschel...

• Nationaltheater München (Munich, Germany)

Rossini's La Cenerentola

Peter Hall (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Ruxandra Donose (Cenerentola)...

Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen

Dennis Russell Davies, André Engel – Elena Tsallagova (The Vixen), Paul Gay (Harašta)

Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel

Markus L. Frank, Johannes Felsenstein – Anhaltisches Theater, Dessau

• Anhaltisches Theater (Dessau, Germany)

Cinderella by Rudolf Nureyev, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Agnès Letestu (Cinderella), José Martinez (The movie star) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann

Alain Guingal, Giancarlo del Monaco – Aquiles Machado (Hoffman), Milagros Poblador (Olympia) – Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao

• Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain)

Coppélia by Maguy Marin, music by Delibes

Lyon Opera Ballet

• Lyon Opera House (Lyons, France)

Les Sylphides by Mikhail Fokine, music by Frédéric Chopin

Svetlana Beriosova, Violetta Elvin, Alicia Markova, John Field

Swan Lake by Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky

Agnès Letestu (Odette), José Martinez (Siegfried) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

L'Enfant et les sortilèges by Jiří Kylián, music by Ravel

Nederlands Dans Theater

Being Alice

Alice's adventures in wonderland

Purcell's The Fairy Queen

Jonathan Kent (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Lucy Crowe, Ed Lyon, Adrian Ward...

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Riccardo Muti, Pierre Audi – With Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night) and René Pape (Sarastro)...

Nutcracker by Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Daniel Barenboim (conductor) – Staatsoper Berlin

• Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Neeme Järvi: One Thousand and One Nights – With Janine Jansen

Waldbühne 2006: Sheherazade, An Oriental Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

Yuri Temirkanov conducts Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen

Charles Mackerras, Nicholas Hytner – Eva Jenis (The Vixen) – Théâtre du Châtelet

• Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris, France)