Roberto Bolle (Art of)

Robert Bolle, the God of Milan, has been featured in 3 ballet titles from Opus Arte. You can get more details for each title by using the links provided:

Sylvia. 2009. (Grade: A-)
Notre-Dame de Paris. 2014. (Grade: B+)
Gala des Étoiles. (2016). (Grade A)

This box set provides an excellent value because all the titles are good with no loser in the bunch. The Gala has many times been a hit with audiences new to ballet. We don’t pay much attention to prices on this website, but the initial offering of this for about $40 is a true bargain.

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.