Winters Tale (Special Edition) - DVD

Following his highly popular Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, created for The Royal Ballet back in 2011, Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon draws on the same music and design team to create 'a triumph' and 'something entirely new' (Daily Telegraph) in this evocative re-imagining of The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's enduring story of jealousy, compassion and forgiveness. Featuring powerful designs by Bob Crowley, Joby Talbot's 'skilful' score (Guardian) and constantly inventive choreography, this gleaming production is one that will be treasured for years to come.

Winters Tale [BLU-RAY] Released 2015 product/publication from BBC / Opus Arte

When Leontes, Sicilian king, becomes convinced his pregnant wife Hermione is conducting an affair with his closest friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, he is so enraged he banishes her newborn child, while Hermione apparently dies of grief. Sixteen years later, the child, Perdita, having been raised in Bohemia by shepherds, is in love with Florizel, son of Polixenes, who forbids their marriage. The lovers travel to Leontes' court seeking happiness, which they find - in ways nobody expected. Blanche McIntyre directs a new version of Shakespeare's great play of the irrational and inexplicable. Set in a world of monsters, gods and natural disasters, travel from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival.