Live performance of the ballet composed by Boris Asafiev, who based the music on his impressions of the French Revolution. The dancers of the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company perform, with Pavel Sorokin conducting the orchestra.

The Royal Ballet's Miyako Yoshida, Stephen McRae, and Gary Avis take the lead roles in this production of Tchaikovsky's classic work recorded in December 2009. Koen Kessels conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

Marianela Nunez and Thiago Soares head the cast in this acclaimed production for the Royal Ballet from March 2009. Russian conductor Valeriy Ovsyanikov leads the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, while Anthony Dowell directs.

The San Francisco Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic work. Martin West conducts the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.

The Royal Ballet presents a stellar cast in Kenneth MacMillan's ballet, filmed in 1994 for the BBC, with John Lanchbery's sumptuous scoring of music by Franz Liszt. The dramatic soundscape is matched by MacMillan's penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his young mistress, Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling in January 1889. The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted by Barry Wordsworth.

Moscow's legendary Bolshoi Ballet perform the classic tale of a slave who leads an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans, set to music by Aram Khachaturian and choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. Acclaimed Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta takes the lead role.