Tchaikovsky: The Snow Maiden – The Dance of the Clowns; The Nutcracker – Snowflakes; Grand pas de deux; Net, tol’ko tot, kto znal; The Queen of Spades – Ya vas lyublyu bezmerno; Akh, istomilas’ ya gorem; Iolanta – Gospod’ moy, yesti greshen ya; 1812 Overture; Anastasia – Pas de duex; Eugene Onegin – Kuda, kuda vi udalilis; Larina Ball; The Sleeping Beauty – Pas de deux; Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko – Song of the Varangian Trader; Song of the Venetian Trader; Rachmaninov: Aleko – Ves tabor spit; Puccini: La bohème – Musetta’s Aria
Plácido Domingo (Tenor); Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone); Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano); Darcey Bussell (Ballet Dancer); Irek Mukhamedov (Ballet Dancer);
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Edward Downes; Barry Wordsworth; Stephen Barlow; Plácido Domingo
Stage Director(s): John Cox
The 1993 Winter Gala Concert from the stage of the Royal Opera House sees a stellar array of the worlds greatest artists celebrate the music of Tchaikovsky – composer of many of the all-time opera, concert and ballet favourites, including The Queen of Spades, the 1812 Overture and The Nutcracker.
Reviews
“a dazzling evening in the company of a galaxy of stars from The Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera an unsurpassable celebration of opera and ballet.” (The Daily Telegraph)