The Dream

Composer: Mendelssohn, Felix

Ballet Company: Royal Ballet, Covent Garden

Choreographer: Ashton, Frederick

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Oberon: McRae, Steven

Titania: Takada, Akane

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Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Conductor: Plasson, Emmanuel

Television Director: MacGibbon, Ross

Lighting Designer: Gready, John

Set Designer: Walker, David

Costumer Designer: Walker, David

Symphonic Variations

Composer: Franck, Cesar

Ballet Company: Royal Ballet, Covent Garden

Choreographer: Ashton, Frederick

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Dancer: Muntagirov, Vadim

Dancer: Nunez, Marianela

Piano: Stobart, Paul

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Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Conductor: Plasson, Emmanuel

Lighting Designer: Read, John B.

Set Designer: Fedorovitch, Sophie

Costumer Designer: Fedorovitch, Sophie

Marguerite and Armand

Composer: Liszt, Franz

Ballet Company: Royal Ballet, Covent Garden

Choreographer: Ashton, Frederick

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Armand: Bolle, Roberto

Marguerite: Yanowsky, Zenaida

Piano: Clark, Robert

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Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Conductor: Plasson, Emmanuel

Lighting Designer: Read, John B.

Set Designer: Beaton, Cecil

Costumer Designer: Beaton, Cecil

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Date of Production: 2017

Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Playing Time: 02:00:50

Catalogue Number: OA1264D

UPC: 809478012641

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Three contrasting ballets by the Royal Ballet's Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton: The Dream (1964) is an enchanting adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to music by Mendelssohn. Symphonic Variations (1946) is an early Ashton masterpiece, and a breathtaking, abstract work on the beauty of pure movement. Marguerite and Armand (1963), here danced by former Royal Ballet Principal Zenaida Yanowsky and Guest Artist Robert Bolle, is tragic love story of great lyric beauty. The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted by Emmanuel Plasson.