Christopher Saunders Movies
- 2011
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House)7.72011HD
A full-length ballet created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The ballet is based...
- 2000
Coppélia (The Royal Ballet)
Coppélia (The Royal Ballet)102000HD
Coppélia, a mechanical doll made by the toy-maker Dr. Coppelius, is so life-like that some believe she is his daughter. The mistake leads to...
- 2020
The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet)
The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet)72020HD
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one...
- 2017
Anastasia
Anastasia02017HD
Royal Ballet Principal Natalia Osipova dances the title role in Kenneth MacMillan’s haunting ballet, to atmospheric music by Tchaikovsky and...
- 2013
Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet)
Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet)02013HD
Given its premiere by The Royal Ballet in 1965 with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing the title roles, Kenneth MacMillan's first full-evening...
- 2022
The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
The Royal Ballet: Mayerling02022HD
Inspired by dark and gripping real life events, this Royal Ballet classic depicts the sexual and morbid obsessions of Crown Prince Rudolf leading to...
- 2006
The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty6.22006HD
Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved of classical ballets, combining in a single work all the enchantment and virtuosity that...
- 2011
La Bayadère
La Bayadère02011HD
Marius Petipa’s exotic ballet set in legendary India is a story of love, death and vengeful judgement. Natalia Makarova’s sumptuous...
- 2018
The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet)
The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet)02018HD
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downstairs to find a magical adventure awaiting her and...
- 2014
Giselle
Giselle02014HD
The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised to another. This is one of The Royal...
- 2014
Don Quixote (The Royal Ballet)
Don Quixote (The Royal Ballet)82014HD
Carlos Acosta's first venture directing one of ballet's 19th century classics was eagerly anticipated, as was his own starring role in the production...
- 2019
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)02019HD
From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage,...
- 2021
ROH Live: The Nutcracker
ROH Live: The Nutcracker22021HD
Tchaikovsky’s much-loved music is matched to a story of magic on Christmas Eve, and the journey of Clara and her Nutcracker to the Land of...
- 2022
A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country02022HD
Ashton gracefully reimagines Turgenev's play A Month in the country as a one-act ballet where all the drama unfolds in the family's living room upon...
- 2015
La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)
La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)02015HD
Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joyous and colourful creations. Inspired by...
- 2021
The Nutcracker - The Royal Ballet
The Nutcracker - The Royal Ballet02021HD
The Royal Ballet brings their annual presentation of The Nutcracker to life, streamed in cinemas throughout the world.
- 2017
Coppélia (Royal Opera House)
Coppélia (Royal Opera House)02017HD
A classic returns to the Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia– a story of love, mischief and...
- 2018
Manon (The Royal Ballet)
Manon (The Royal Ballet)02018HD
Manon’s brother Lescaut is offering her to the highest bidder when she meets Des Grieux and falls in love. They elope to Paris, but when...
- 2019
Don Quixote (Royal Opera House)
Don Quixote (Royal Opera House)02019HD
Don Quixote and his servant Sancho Panza set out to have a chivalrous adventure. They meet Kitri and Basilio, a young couple who cannot marry because...
- 2014
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland02014HD
At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she...