Frederick Wiseman's performance-documentary, La Danse - Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris, provides an inside look at the French ballet company known for perfection and precision, The Paris Opera Ballet. The film airs for GREAT PERFORMANCES June 16, 2010 at 9 p.m. (check local listings).
Join GREAT PERFORMANCES to go behind the scenes of the Royal Shakespeare Company's exciting new production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." David Tennant, Patrick Stewart and director Gregory Doran discuss the creative process of transferring the production from the original RSC stage production to the on-location television film adaptation.
Director
Gregory Doran
Producers
John Wyver
Sebastian Grant
Hamlet
David Tennant
Claudius and The Ghost
Patrick Stewart
Gertrude
Penny Downie
Polonius
Oliver Ford Davies
Ophelia
Mariah Gale
Laertes
Edward Bennett
Horatio
Peter De Jersey
Rosencrantz and Second Gravedigger
Sam Alexander
Guildenstern
Tom Davey
Gravedigger
Mark Hadfield
Player King
John Woodvine
Osric And Player Queen
Ryan Gage
Dumbshow King
Samuel Dutton
Dumbshow Queen and Priest
Jim Hooper
Reynaldo and Dumbshow Poisoner
David Ajala
Marcellus
Keith Osborn
Barnardo
Ewen Cummins
Francisco and Fortinbras
Robert Curtis
Voltemand
Roderick Smith
Cornelia
Andrea Harris
Lucianus
Ricky Champ
Ladies-in-Waiting
Riann Steele
Zoe Thorne
Casting
Sam Jones Cdg
Original ...
Shakespeare's immortal "To be, or not to be" takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors David Tennant and (recently-knighted) Sir Patrick Stewart reprise their roles for a modern-dress, film-for-television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) 2008 stage production of Hamlet.
Richard Eyre, the renowned British director of theater and film, explores the passionate drama of Bizet’s Carmen and the power of her desires in his new production at the Metropolitan Opera, which premieres on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances at the Met series. “Her sexuality is a life force, it’s a defining ...
Strauss's comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover Octavian. Edo De Waart conducts a cast that includes Christine Schäfer as Sophie, Eric Cutler as the Italian singer, Thomas Allen as ...
Classical stage and screen actors Sir Patrick Stewart, in his Laurence Olivier Award-winning turn as Claudius, and David Tennant, as the titular Dane, reprise their roles in this television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2008 stage production of Hamlet.
Watch choreographer (and original West Side Story dancer) Eliot Feld, Sondra Lee (one of Robbins' original "Opus" dancers), along with other Robbins' friends and colleagues join the current cast of dancers to contextualize the cultural and historical importance of Mr. Robbins' career and NY Export: Opus Jazz in this 10 minute documentary by Matt Wolf and Anna Farrell.
Set in a school gymnasium, the ensemble of Dance In America: NY Export: Opus Jazz performs the third movement of the ballet, "Improvisations, Movement #3."
The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, premieres on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances at the Met series. Joseph Calleja sings the title role, joined by Anna Netrebko as both Antonia and Stella, Kathleen ...
