On Saturday, April 17th, Opus Arte and DigiScreen offer cinema dance fans of all ages the annual enchanting favourite TALES OF BEATRIX POTTER from The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden presented at select Landmark Cinemas locations and other select theatres in Canada and the USA. Distributed worldwide by DigiScreen, the highly acclaimed production appears on select Canadian screens as part of an ongoing cinema series from the world’s great stages presented by The Royal Opera House’s Opus Arte.
A special performance for adults and children of all ages or for those who are just young at heart! London’s Royal Ballet Tales of Beatrix Potter brings the characters from her famous stories alive.
In 1971, Frederick Ashton choreographed Tales of Beatrix Potter for film. Two decades later, Anthony Dowell staged Ashton’s choreography for The Royal Ballet, giving the company one of its more charming signature offerings. The production’s ingenious use of scale when designing the sets and their spectacular costumes and masks quickly draws audiences in to the wondrous world of Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher and Jemima Puddleduck.
Only in The Royal Ballet’s Tales of Beatrix Potter will you behold the delightful dancing naughty mice, see Pigling Bland and Pig-Wig perform a wonderful pig pas de deux, witness an overly excited Squirrel Nutkin leap, twirl and whirl around the stage and cheer as all of the much loved characters join in the glorious grand finale.
“Enchanting. If you want to connect with your inner child - or, even better, if you have a youngster in tow - then this is the show for you. How can you resist?” - Debra Craine, The Times
Tales of Beatrix Potter was captured before a live audience at Royal Opera House Covent Garden in December 2007.
Tickets will be available at $19.95 + tax per adult, $16.95 + tax per senior and $9.95 + tax per child. For cinema locations and to purchase advance tickets throughout Canada and the USA visit www.digiscreen.ca. For Landmark Cinemas in Alberta and BC, go to www.landmarkcinemas.com. For independent theatres in Vancouver, please visit www.festivalcinemas.ca.
