Classical Ballets

Full length

Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker

Sir Peter Wright (Birmingham Royal Ballet)

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

Wayne Eagling and Toer van Schayk (Het National Ballet)

The Nutcracker - The Story of Clara

Tchaikovsky

Graeme Murphy (contemporary The Australian Ballet)

The Nutcracker

Helgi Tómasson (San Francisco Ballet)

Sleeping Beauty

Sir Peter Wright (Birmingham Royal Ballet)

The Sleeping Beauty

David McAllister (The Australian Ballet)

The Sleeping Beauty

Stanton Welch (The Australian Ballet)

Swan Lake

Rudi van Dantzig (Het National Ballet)

Swan Lake

Graeme Murphy (The Australian Ballet)

Swan Lake

Tchaikovsky

Stephen Baynes (traditional, created for The Australian Ballet)

Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet

John Cranko

Romeo and Juliet

Graeme Murphy (The Australian Ballet)

Cinderella

Alexei Ratmansky (The Australian Ballet)

19th century repertoire

La Sylphide

Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer/Pierre Lacotte

La Sylphide

Hermann Løvenskjold/August Bournonville

Giselle

Adolphe Adam/Maina Gielgud (traditional, created for The Australian Ballet)

Giselle

Adolphe Adam/Helgi Tómasson (San Francisco Ballet)

Don Quixote

Leon Minkus (arr. Lanchbery)

Nureyev (after Petipa, The Australian Ballet)

Coppélia

Delibes

Peggy van Praagh (after Saint-Léon and Petipa)

Sylvia

Léo Delibes/Stanton Welch (Houston Ballet)

Raymonda

Alexander Glazunov/Stephen Baynes (created for The Australian Ballet)

Harlequinade

Riccardo DrigoAlexei Ratmansky (after Petipa)

La fille mal gardée

Ferdinand Hérold (arr. Lanchbery)/Frederick Ashton

Onegin

Tchaikovsky/John Cranko

Manon

Massenet (arr. Leighton-Lucas)/Sir Kenneth MacMillan

Spartacus

Aram Khachaturian/László Seregi

The Merry Widow

Franz Lehár (arr. Lanchbery and Abbott)/Ronald Hynd

The Three Musketeers

Verdi arranged Woolfenden/André Prokovsky

Jewels

Fauré, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky/George Balanchine

Amphitheater

Rihm, Scelsi, Andriessen, Lidholm/Toer van Schayk

21st Century repertoire

Nijinsky

Chopin, Schumann, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich/John Neumeier

The Silver Rose

Carl Vine/Graeme Murphy (created for the Bavarian State Ballet)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Joby Talbot/Chris Wheeldon

Spartacus

Khachaturian/Lucas Jervies (created for The Australian Ballet)

The Happy Prince

Christopher Gordon/Graeme Murphy (created for The Australian Ballet)

Kunstkamer

Beethoven, Arnalds, Joplin, Bartók,Schubert, Britten, J.Strauss jr, Purcell arranged Stokowski, Talbot

Sol León, Paul Lightfoot, Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke

Anna Karenina

Ilya Demutsky/Yuri Possokhov

Carmen

Bizet, Schedrin/Ted Brandsen

Coppélia

Léo Delibes/Chrissie Parrott (West Australian Ballet)

One Act Ballets and Divertissement

Stravinsky ballets

Pétrouchka

Stravinsky

Mikhail Fokine

The Rite of Spring

Stravinsky

Stephen Page

The Firebird (1945)

Stravinsky

Graeme Murphy

Apollon Musagète

Stravinsky

George Balanchine

Agon

Stravinsky

George Balanchine

Symphony in Three Movements

Stravinsky

George Balanchine

The Cage (Concerto in D)

Stravinsky

Jerome Robbins

Other Balanchine ballets

Symphony in C

Bizet

George Balanchine

Ballet Imperial

Tchaikovsky

George Balanchine

Serenade

Tchaikovsky

George Balanchine

The Four Temperaments

Hindemith

George Balanchine

Theme and Variations

Tchaikovsky

George Balanchine

Union Jack

Hershy Kay

George Balanchine

Walpurgisnacht

Gounod

George Balanchine

The Prodigal Son

Prokofiev

George Balanchine

Tchaikovsky Pas de deux

Tchaikovsky

George Balanchine

19th Century

La Bayadère Kingdom of the Shades (complete) and other divertissement from the ballet

Minkus arranged Lanchbery

Marius Petipa

Esmerelda pas de deux

Drigo

Garth Welch after Petipa

Flower Festival in Genzano

Helsted

Bournonville

Le Conservatoire

Paulli arranged Kuhlau

Bournonville

Le Corsaire pas de deux

Drigo

Nureyev after Petipa

Paquita - various divertissement and pas de deux

Minkus, Deldevez arranged Lanchbery and others

Marius Petipa

Diana and Actéon pas de deux

Pugni

Joseph Mazilier

20th Century

Scheherazade

Rimsky-Korsakov

Mikhail Fokine

Le Spectre de la rose

Weber arranged Berlioz

Mikhail Fokine

Les Sylphides

Chopin arranged Douglas

Mikhail Fokine (staged by Irina Baronova)

Les Présages

Tchaikovsky

Léonid Massine

Flames of Paris pas de deux

Assafiev

Vainonen

Gala Performance

Prokofiev

Anthony Tudor

Grand pas classique

Auber

Gsovsky (staged by David McAllister)

Checkmate

Bliss

Ninette de Valois

Études

Czerny arranged Riisager

Harald Lander

Suite en blanc

Lalo

Serge Lifar

Concerto

Shostakovich

Kenneth MacMillan

Monotones 11

Satie arranged Debussy/ Manuel

Frederick Ashton

Symphonic Variations

Franck

Frederick Ashton

The Dream

Mendelssohn arranged Lanchbery

Frederick Ashton

The Concert

Chopin arranged Grundman

Jerome Robbins

Afternoon of a Faun

Debussy

Jerome Robbins

The Display

Malcolm Williamson

Robert Helpmann

Voluntaries

Poulenc

Glen Tetley

Gemini

Henze

Glen Tetley

Spring Waters pas de deux

Rachmaninov

Asaf Messerer

Beyond 12

Ravel

Graeme Murphy

Beyond Bach

Bach

Stephen Baynes

Silent Cries

Debussy

Jiři Kylián

Forgotten Land

Britten

Jiři Kylián

Sechs Tänze

Mozart

Jiři Kylián

Bella Figura

Foss, Pergolesi, Marcello, Vivaldi

Jiři Kylián

Petite Mort

Mozart

Jiři Kylián

Divergence

Bizet

Stanton Welch

Duende

Debussy

Nacho Duato

Seconds

Vivaldi

Sol León and Paul Lightfoot

Third Symphony

Gorecki

Krzysztof Pastor

Grand Tarantella

Gottschalk arranged Hershey Kay

Walter Bourke

La Favorita

Donizetti

Petal Miller Ashmole

21st Century

After the Rain

Arvo Pärt

Christopher Wheeldon

DGV:Danse à grande vitesse

Michael Nyman

Christopher Wheeldon

Chroma

The White Stripes and Joby Talbot

Wayne McGregor

Dyad 1929

Steve Reich

Wayne McGregor

Obsidian Tear

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Wayne McGregor

Velocity

Michael Torke

Stanton Welch

Almost Tango

Laurie Anderson, Karl Jenkins, Thomas Oboe Lee

Nicolo Fonte

Possibility Space

Ross Edwards

Nicolo Fonte

Semele

Gerard Brophy

Matjash Mrozewski

Scuolo di ballo

Boccherini arranged Francaix

Alexei Ratmansky after Léonide Massine

Symphony Fantastique

Berlioz

Krzysztof Pastor (created for The Australian Ballet)

Faster

Matthew Hindson

David Bintley

Watermark

Caroline Shaw

Pam Tanowitz

Everywhere We Go

Sufjan Stevens

Justin Peck

Stop Motion

Max Richter

Sol León and Paul Lightfoot

Schubert

Schubert

Sol León and Paul Lightfoot

21st century Australian

Amalgamate

Elena Kats-Chernin and David Page

Stephen Page

Warumuk- In the Dark Night

David Page orchestrated by Jessica Wells

Stephen Page

The Narrative of Nothing

Brett Dean

Graeme Murphy

Squander and Glory

Michael Gordon

Tim Harbour

Halcyon

Gerard Brophy

Tim Harbour

Requiem

Fauré

Stephen Baynes

Art to Sky

Mozart

Stephen Baynes

Molto Vivace

Haendel

Stephen Baynes

Constant Variants

Tchaikovsky

Stephen Baynes

Night Path

Richard Mills

Stephen Baynes

Little Atlas

Ludovico Einaudi

Alice Topp

Aurum

Ludovico Einaudi

Alice Topp

Logos

Ludovico Einaudi

Alice Topp

Annealing

Bryony Marks

Alice Topp

Paragon

Christopher Gordon

Alice Topp

The Hum

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon

Daniel Riley

Ballet

title • composer • choreographer

Fraillon and Orchestra Victoria do a marvellous job, capturing the full range of Tchaikovsky’s orchestration from baleful darkness, impassioned melody, glinting, diaphanous textures and powerful tutti climaxes, (the ‘Rose Adagio’ is a locus classicus). Sleeping Beauty CD
— Gordon Kerry