Tony Palmer's Margot Fonteyn
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Release Date: 22 September 2023
Label: Tony Palmer Films
Packaging Type: DVD Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5056083210756
Format Details:
Release Date: 22 September 2023
Label: Tony Palmer Films
Packaging Type: DVD Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5056083210756
Description
This is the story of how the most famous dancer that England has ever produced was deceived and betrayed by those closest to her; of how a little girl called Peggy Hookham, brought up in Shanghai, told her mother she would one day become the greatest dancer in the world; and of how, in spite of being almost unable to walk, she was still performing when she was 67. It is a story of courage and tenacity, of unbelievable devotion - to her art and to those whom she loved who, in the end, left her penniless and alone, even to the extent that she was buried at first in a pauper's grave. It is the stuff of fiction - except that it is true.
Among the ballets featured are: Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Marguerite & Armand, & The Nutcracker'with Rudolf Nureyev, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann, Ninette de Valois, Roland Petit, Monica Mason, Lynn Seymour, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell & Beryl Grey.
Tracklisting
Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer
Renee Fleming
Andre Previn
Menuhin
Sarah Hennies
Donna McKevitt
Eric Guo, Oh! Orchestra, Vaclav Luks
Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, Henryk Czyz
Hyuk Lee (piano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrzej Boreyko
Ensemble de Caelis
Zemlinsky Quartet, Paolo Giacometti
Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill