Product Details

• Format: Classical, Color, HiFi Sound, Live, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: View Video
• VHS Release Date: August 1, 1996
• Run Time: 31 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 630299974X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #503,464 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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AWARDS:

-Dove Foundation Family Approved Seal -Parents Choice Award

Product Description

WINNER OF...
-The Dove Foundation Family Approved Seal
-The Parents Choice "Gold Award"

Ballet in 3 acts
Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Staged and choreographed by Tom Schilling
Berlin Comic Opera Orchestra conducted by Siegfried Kratzer

First performed: Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, with Moira Shearer 12/23/48

U.S. Premiere: Sadler's Wells Ballet, Metropolitan Opera, New York, with Margot Fonteyn 10/18/49

This well-known fairy tale of "Cinderella," based on the story of the 17th Century poet, Charles Perrault, has been a ballet for over 150 years. But it's enormous success came only after Frederick Ashton was inspired by the wistful and imaginatice Prokofiev score (written in 1945), and he created Britain's first full-length ballet. Together with Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet," the Cinderella Ballet has now become part of our dance culture.

The world acclaimed Berlin Comic Opera has a long history, going back 230 years. They adapt the techniques of Soviet classical teaching and have always felt a responsibility to make ballet accessible to the young by staging many special performances to introduce them to the art of ballet, and by presenting new choreographers and new dance works.

In this filmed version, the beautiful Hannelore Bey dances the role of Cinderella with touches of tenderness, dignity and alluring grace, while Principal Dancer Roland Gawlick creates an outstanding Prince. The splendid costumes and sets bring out the ballet's inventiveness, farce and fluidity, highlight by the "pas de deux" for Cinderella and her Prince in the ballroom scene and the comic roles of the ugly sisters.

V.I.E.W. VIDEO is proud to present this entertaining performance, which captures Cinderella's timeless and enduring charm and is a treat to young and old.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly filmed 70's Cinder!, February 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Cinderella [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My daughter,2 1/2, loves ballet, and loves the story of Cinderella. I thought this would be similar to the wonderful video, "I want to be a ballerina", wrong. It is a little scary and surreal with blurry color footage, and a slightly dated appearance. She now enjoys it, but we had to explain the characters and why the fairy godmother looks like a homeless women who just emerged from the sewer. It is o.k. considering there are not that many ballet videos for children.