Ballet Classics

Ballet Classics

Watch classical dance masterpieces rooted in centuries-old ballet tradition known for structured storytelling, precise technique, and iconic music including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Giselle.

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Ballet Classics
  • The Sleeping Beauty - Bolshoi Ballet

    First staged in 1973 by legendary choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, this new production of “The Sleeping Beauty”, based on original choreography by Marius Petipa to the music by Tchaikovsky, is the first ballet performed on the newly reconstructed stage of the historical Bolshoi Theatre. As the cur...

  • Romeo and Juliet - Starring Roberto Bolle and Misty Copeland

    Set to Prokofiev's timeless score, Kenneth Macmillan's classic choreography of Romeo and Juliet is legendary in La Scala's repertoire. The stars of this masterly performance are Roberto Bolle (Principal Dancer Etolie at Teatro alla Scala) and Misty Copeland (Principal Dancer at ABT in New York), ...

  • Don Quixote - Dutch National Ballet

    Don Quichot is a dazzling display of high spirits, virtuosity and Spanish temperament. The flamboyant leaps, stunning pirouettes and crisp pointe work that are standard features of the production give the Dutch National Ballet every opportunity to show off their technical mastery. At the same tim...

  • Giselle - Dutch National Ballet

    Experience dramatic acting, virtuoso technique and the beauty of classical ballet. Giselle is an enchanting ballet from the Romantic Era that tells the tale of love, deception, revenge, and forgiveness. One of the oldest surviving and most danced ballets in the world, Dutch National Ballet's prod...

  • The Royal Ballet - The Nutcracker

    The Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker is the quintessential Christmas ballet. When her nutcracker toy comes to life, young Clara is transported by the magician Drosselmeyer to a magical world of excitement and delight. With sumptuous period designs, spellbinding stage effects and of course Tchaikovsk...

  • Swan Lake - Bolshoi Ballet

    With Tchaikovsky’s timeless score, the classical ballet "Swan Lake" is an enchanting masterpiece depicting love, deception and drama. White swan by day, human by night, the beautiful Odette awaits an oath of true love to break the curse. This 2015 production choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich feat...

  • George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - New York City Ballet

    Experience the magic of New York City Ballet’s iconic holiday classic, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, based on the Alexandre Dumas version of E.T.A Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816). In Act I, Tchaikovsky’s beloved melodies transport the young and the young at heart to a...