Win Paris Opéra Ballet DVDs

Posted on October 25, 2010

TDK have issued a new boxed set of dance DVDs, Great Ballets of the Opéra national de Paris, just in time for Christmas.

The set includes four works, danced by many of the Paris Opéra Ballet’s biggest stars. The cast for Pierre Lacotte’s Paquita is led by Agnès Letetsu, José Martinez and Karl Paquette. Clairemarie Osta appears as Roland Petit’s Carmen, partnered by Nicholas Le Riche. Le Riche appears in two more Petit ballets: Le Jeune homme et la mort, with Marie-Agnès Gillot, and in Notre-Dame de Paris, with Isabelle Guérin, Laurent Hilaire and Manuel Legris. TDK have kindly given us three sets, to be won by lucky Dancing Times readers. To win a set, please see page 7 of the latest issue of Dancing Times.

Jonathan Gray

Jonathan Gray is editor of Dancing Times. He studied at The Royal Ballet School, Leicester Polytechnic, and Wimbledon School of Art where he graduated with a BA Hons in Theatre Design. For 16 years he was a member of the curatorial department of the Theatre Museum, London, assisting on a number of dance-related exhibitions, and helping with the recreation of original designs for a number of The Royal Ballet’s productions including Danses concertantes, Daphnis and Chloë, and The Sleeping Beauty. He has also contributed to the Financial Times, written programme articles for The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet, and is co-author of the book Unleashing Britain: Theatre gets real 1955-64, published in 2005.