Nicolas Le Riche

Юная и необычайно талантливая танцовщица Юля Ольшанская из маленького шахтерского городка вытягивает «счастливый билет»: её замечает бывший артист балета Потоцкий и прочит будущее великой балерины, достойной главной сцены страны. Однако для того, чтобы стать бриллиантом, любому, даже самому выдающемуся алмазу, требуется огранка, и путь на легендарные подмостки Большого театра для Юли лежит через стены балетной школы, где опеку над непокорной провинциалкой берет еще более своенравная преподавательница Галина Михайловна Белецкая. Превращение в приму потребует невероятного самоотречения, и Юля на собственном опыте должна будет убедиться, что большой балет — это не только белизна пачек, золото лож и скольжение шелковых лент. Но никакие препятствия не остановят того, у кого есть Большая Мечта.

In 2008, the Opéra national de Paris honored the legendary Jerome Robbins. Though the general public may remember him primarily for his staging and choreography of Bernstein’s West Side Story, Robbins was also a brilliant ballet choreographer. In this production, we discover three of his works of classical ballet—En sol, In the Night, and The Concert—paired with Benjamin Millepied’s Triade.

A film by Frederick Wiseman following the ins and outs of 7 ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.

Raymonda is an emotional three-act ballet with music by Alexandre Glazunov. Premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in 1898 featuring choreography by Marius Petipa, the ballet is performed here with Rudolf Nureyev's adapted choreography for his 2008 production at the Opéra de Paris, starring the great Marie-Agnès Gillot, José Martinez, and Nicolas Le Riche.

Жан-Доминик Боби, редактор журнала Elle France, в 1995 году в возрасте 43 лет перенес инсульт, в результате которого он был полностью парализован. Подмигивая оставшимся не парализованным левым глазом, когда сидящий рядом человек называл нужную букву, Жан-Доминик рассказал все о своем внутреннем мире, начиная с психологической пытки из-за того, что ты заперт внутри собственного тела, и заканчивая воображаемыми историями о мирах, которые он посещал лишь в своих мечтах.

Giselle, the Romantic ballet par excellence! Relive the story of a young country girl's innocent love for the Duke Albrecht. When she learns that he is already engaged to marry a princess, Giselle suffers violent hallucinations and then dies. In vengeance, the Queen of the Wilis—the ghosts of young girls who die before their time—condemns Albrecht to dance until he dies of exhaustion...

Once upon a time there was a kingdom where dancing was forbidden by a tyrant king. Defying the edict of her father, the Princess Aurore continues to dance, for the amusement of herself and brother, Solal. With the kingdom virtually bankrupt, the King has no choice but to marry his daughter to a wealthy prince. As preparations are made for a ball that will set the seal on the marriage, the princess discovers that she is in love.

Sergei Eisenstein's grand unfinished 1940s-50s film trilogy 'Ivan the Terrible' had elaborate incidental music by Sergei Prokofiev. In 1975 Yuri Grigorovich, for thirty years the chief choreographer of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, made a ballet on the same subject and used a conflation of Prokofiev's music from the film. It was quickly taken up by ballet companies the world over. This DVD is a film of a performance recorded live at the Opéra National de Paris in December 2003 and featuring three premier dancers of that company in the solo roles of Ivan, Anastasia and Kurbsky. The stage is filled at times with as many as eighty dancers as boyars, oprichniks (Ivan's personal police, assassins actually), maidens from whom Ivan picks his bride, and 'the Russian people.'

Roland Petit’s ballet Carmen was a smash hit at its premiere at London’s Prince’s Theatre in 1949. Structured in five scenes, the work reimagines the classic opera, using an innovative mixture of modern and classical ballet, mime, and Spanish-style movement to create a contemporary interpretation of Bizet’s Romantic masterpiece. In this 2005 production at the Palais Garnier, Clairemaire Osta (Carmen), Nicolas Le Riche (Don José), and Guillaume Charlot (Escamillo) star, framed by Antoni Clavé’s vibrant decor and costumes. Experience this landmark ballet in a striking 21st-century revival!

Nicolas Le Riche and Marie-Agnès Gillot star in the legendary Roland Petit and Jean Cocteau's pioneering one-act ballet Le Jeune homme et la Mort. This 2005 production at the Opéra de Paris stays true to Petit’s original scenic and choreographic conception, from the dark, dingy apartment of the Young Man to the disturbing yellow dress and jet-black coiffe of the villainess. A mesmerizing drama in dance as virtuosic as it is unsettling!

Inspired by Goethe's early romantic play Clavigo, Roland Petit's ballet recounts the agonies of a weak-willed lover torn between the contradictory promptings of his heart and his evil spirit, which urges him to serve his own interests and forsake true love in favor of a life of debauchery. Recorded live at the Opera National de Paris, Palais Garnier, October 1999.