Experience Puccini's Madama Butterfly in this acclaimed Royal Ballet and Opera production, featuring breathtaking music and a timeless tragic love story.

Everyone came to watch Romeo and Juliet. Nobody expected the real star to be a cat. During the final scene of a ballet performance in Turkey, a curious ginger cat wandered onto the stage and decided that Romeo's hair was far more interesting than Shakespe...

In Lindau on Lake Constance there is an opera of a very special kind: here marionettes take the stage. The opera is directed by Bernhard Leismüller. He literally pulls all the strings: every marionette is created by him, from carving it out of wood to dre...

Adapted from the strange fantasy tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Powell and Pressburger’s THE TALES OF HOFFMANN is a one-of-a-kind take on the classic story. The opera dramatises the three great romances in the life of a poet-hero presented in a series of flash...

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES (’48) tells the story of a young ballerina (Moira Shearer) who is torn between her love of dance and her love for a young composer (Marius Goring). It is the ultimate film about the art of dance.

Torn between her desire of a life of splendour and riches and her devotion to her true love Des Grieux, the feckless and capricious Manon pays the ultimate price. Starring Natalia Osipova and Reece Clarke.

Join curator of dance Jane Pritchard as she carefully unboxes and explores these historic ballet objects – from Margot Fonteyn’s costume from The Sleeping Beauty, designed by Oliver Messel in 1946, to a ballet shoe thought to have been worn by Anna Pavlov...

Discover why ballet sensation Jovani Furlan is the male dancer everyone is talking about—electric performances, rising fame, and pure artistry.

A young Audrey Hepburn, who had trained as a ballet dancer from childhood, played Valentina Cortese's younger sister in this 1952 film.

In this creative short film /music video, composer and pianist Jennifer Thomas plays the role of the wind doll Clara who performs her epic piano cover of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" while the toys awaken and creative mischief in the toymaker's shop wh...

New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck performs "Sugar Plum Fairy" from George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker," accompanied by music director Andrew Litton.

A Christmas classic revisited in dance form at the Finnish National Opera: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, miserly old man who, on Christmas Eve, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and fut...

Experience the magic of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Op 71 in the iconic 1968 performance starring Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park, a timeless ballet classic that continues to enchant with its artistry, elegance, and holiday sparkle.

Cynthia Erivo delivers a stripped-down, emotionally charged performance of “No Good Deed,” backed by a haunting violin-and-cello arrangement, while Misty Copeland brings powerful, vulnerable movement to the piece. Recorded live, this reimagined version of...

In this adaptation of the ballet Giselle, the titular character awakens to find herself dead, with no memory of her life or her death.