John Lanchbery

Set in the Royal India of the past, La Bayadère is a story of eternal love, mystery, fate, vengeance, and justice. The ballet relates the drama of a temple dancer (bayadère), Nikiya, who is loved by Solor, a noble warrior. She is also loved by the High Brahmin, but does not love him in return, as she does Solor.

The Dream: Frederick Ashton’s delightful interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a classic of The Royal Ballet’s repertory. Symphonic Variations: Ashton was inspired to create a ballet on the four seasons – but as he began to choreograph he refined and purified until the ballet shook off its original meaning, emerging as an abstract celebration of movement and physicality. Marguerite and Armand: Marguerite, a Parisian courtesan, lies on her deathbed. She recalls her tragic love affair with Armand in a series of feverish flashbacks.

Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joyous and colourful creations. Inspired by his love for the Suffolk countryside, the ballet is set on a farm and tells a story of love between Lise, the daughter of Widow Simone, and Colas, a young farmer. It contains some of Ashton's most stunning choreography, most strikingly in the series of energetic pas de deux that express the youthful passion of the young lovers, performed here by Natalia Osipova and Steven McRae. The ballet is laced with exuberant good humour, and elements of national folk dance, from dancing chickens and a maypole dance to a Lancashire clog dance for Widow Simone, performed by Philip Mosley.

Live recording at Opéra-Bastille in 2012.

Breathtaking sets and costumes are designed by Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino in this exceptional production, recorded at the Palais Garnier in Paris. Direction and choreography in this fully restored version of Marius Petipa's original ballet are by Rudolf Nureyev. Live performance recorded in 1994.

The Tales of Beatrix Potter is a 1992 ballet adapted for stage by Anthony Dowell from the 1971 film The Tales of Beatrix Potter that was choreographed by Frederick Ashton that in turn was based on the children's books by Beatrix Potter.

Ever since its triumphant premiere in 1960, Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardee has been treasured as one of his happiest creations - his artistic tribute to nature, and an expression of his feelings for his beloved Suffolk countryside. Marianela Nunez and Carlos Acosta perfectly portray the young lovers Lise and Colas, determined to thwart the plans of Widow Simone to marry off her wayward daughter to Alain, the simple son of wealthy Farmer Thomas. Osbert Lancaster's colourful, picture-book designs, along with Ferdinand Herold's tuneful score, arranged by John Lanchbery, provide the perfect setting for Ashton's blissfully bucolic ballet, complete with haywain, pony, maypole and ribbons, a cockrel and his chickens and, of course, the famous clog dance, here wonderfully led by William Tuckett as the irascible but lovable Widow Simone.

하늘은 수정처럼 맑고 바다는 눈이 시리도록 푸른 아름다운 아드리아해의 어느 섬. 이곳에있는 고급 호텔에 여러 사람들이 휴양차 방문한다. 이들 중 연예계의 스타로 미모와 재능은 뛰어나지만 자기 멋대로인 성격으로 보이지 않는 미움을 사던 알레나 마샬(다이아나 리그 분)이 해변에서 목이 졸린 채 죽어 있는 것이 발견된다. 살해되기 전에 알레나는 갓 결혼한 아내와 함께 온 패트릭 레드펀(니콜라스 클레이 분)에게 드러내놓고 관심을 보임으로써 그녀의 남편인 케네스 마샬(데니스 퀼리 분)과 패트릭의 아내인 크리스틴 레드펀(제인 버킨 분)에게 마음의 상처를 주었다. 또 새로운 작품으로써 추락한 명성을 회복하기 위해 알레나에게 출연 제의를 하러 온 제작자, 오델 가드너(제임스 메이슨 분)와 그의 아내 마이라 가드너 또한 알레나한테 적의를 품고 있었고. 알레나의 남편 케네스와 전처 사이의 딸인 린다 마샬 또한 계모인 알레나를 죽도록 싫어했으며, 호텔의 여주인인 다프네 캐슬(매기 스미스 분)은 케네스에 대한 사랑으로 알레나를 미워했다. 이밖에도 등장 인물들 모두에게 알레나를 살해했을 법한 동기가 있었지만 모두 정확한 알리바이로써 포와로 탐정(피터 유스티노프 분)을 혼란에 빠뜨린다. 하지만 포와로 탐정은 결국 이들 중에서 진짜 범인을 지목하는데...

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.

뉴욕의 명문 발레 학교에서 떠오르는 스타였던 디디는 극단내에서 만난 동료 댄서와의 관계로 임신을 하고. 결혼한 뒤 학교를 떠나 오클라호마에서 발레 학교를 직접 운영하면서 동시에 세 아이의 엄마로서 소임을 다한다. 반면 디디와 함께 발레 학교의 유망주였던 엠마는 오직 발레에만 전념한 끝에 최고의 프리마돈나 자리를 거머쥔다.춤에 뛰어난 소질을 보이고 있는 디디의 16살 난 딸 에밀리아는 발레 학교로부터 입학 허가를 받지만. 12살 난 아들은 춤과 야구사이에서 아직 결정을 갈등하는 중이다. 결국 디디는 여름 방학동안 아이들을 데리고 뉴욕으로 가 댄스 교습을 받기로 한다. 발레 학교에서 실력을 인정 받아 여름 공연에서 중요한 역을 맡게 된 아멜리아는 러시아에서 건너 온 유명한 발레리나인 유리와 사랑에 빠지지만. 그가 다른 발레리나와 키스하는 장면을 목격한 뒤 상처받는다. 한편 엠마는 자신이 점점 젊은 발레리나들에게 밀리고 있다는 사실 때문에 불안한데다가. 사귀고 있던 유부남이 자신에게 냉담해 진것을 알아차리게 된다.

뉴욕의 명문 발레 학교에서 떠오르는 스타였던 디디는 극단내에서 만난 동료 댄서와의 관계로 임신을 하고. 결혼한 뒤 학교를 떠나 오클라호마에서 발레 학교를 직접 운영하면서 동시에 세 아이의 엄마로서 소임을 다한다. 반면 디디와 함께 발레 학교의 유망주였던 엠마는 오직 발레에만 전념한 끝에 최고의 프리마돈나 자리를 거머쥔다.춤에 뛰어난 소질을 보이고 있는 디디의 16살 난 딸 에밀리아는 발레 학교로부터 입학 허가를 받지만. 12살 난 아들은 춤과 야구사이에서 아직 결정을 갈등하는 중이다. 결국 디디는 여름 방학동안 아이들을 데리고 뉴욕으로 가 댄스 교습을 받기로 한다. 발레 학교에서 실력을 인정 받아 여름 공연에서 중요한 역을 맡게 된 아멜리아는 러시아에서 건너 온 유명한 발레리나인 유리와 사랑에 빠지지만. 그가 다른 발레리나와 키스하는 장면을 목격한 뒤 상처받는다. 한편 엠마는 자신이 점점 젊은 발레리나들에게 밀리고 있다는 사실 때문에 불안한데다가. 사귀고 있던 유부남이 자신에게 냉담해 진것을 알아차리게 된다.

The ballet tells the story of a peasant girl named Giselle whose ghost, after her premature death, protects her lover from the vengeance of a group of evil female spirits called Wilis

The ballet tells the story of a peasant girl named Giselle whose ghost, after her premature death, protects her lover from the vengeance of a group of evil female spirits called Wilis

A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music by John Lanchbery.

A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music by John Lanchbery.

The Royal Ballet Company brings Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, and Pigwig to the screen doing pirouettes and pas de deux in this filmed ballet production directed by Reginald Mills. The film more properly belongs, however, to choreographer Frederick Ashmore, composer John Lanchbery, and costume designer Rostislav Douboujinsky. This literal adaptation concerns the shy Beatrix Potter and how, when all of the toy animals in her room come to life, she emerges from her shell and begins to enjoy life. Sequences include a rowdy dance with Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca destroying a collection of plaster food, a midnight pas de deux between Pigling Bland and Pigwig, and a corps de ballet of dancing mice.

The Royal Ballet Company brings Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, and Pigwig to the screen doing pirouettes and pas de deux in this filmed ballet production directed by Reginald Mills. The film more properly belongs, however, to choreographer Frederick Ashmore, composer John Lanchbery, and costume designer Rostislav Douboujinsky. This literal adaptation concerns the shy Beatrix Potter and how, when all of the toy animals in her room come to life, she emerges from her shell and begins to enjoy life. Sequences include a rowdy dance with Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca destroying a collection of plaster food, a midnight pas de deux between Pigling Bland and Pigwig, and a corps de ballet of dancing mice.

A film version of the ballet Giselle. Filmed in a studio, using innovative editing and cinematography to go along with the choreography, this film stands out from filmed stage-performances.

Swan Lake - The Royal Ballet (1963) (Fonteyn-Nureyev)

Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.

Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son (Dermot Walsh) joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father (Charles Victor).

The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.

A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.