If the Muses of Mt. Parnassus had decided to stage Coppelia, they would have selected The Australian Ballet to perform this ballet. It is difficult to find and select the proper superlative adjectives for dancers, costumes, settings, musicians, lighting, and the camera crew who created this DVD. Adjectives like: superb, magnificent, graceful, marvellous, beautiful, lovely, brilliant, excellent, divine, etc. might be used for all aspects of this performance. The viewer can easily follow the story. When we watched this Coppelia the first time, we encored the second act. Bravissimo.

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Rating: - Bravissimo Coppelia
If the Muses of Mt. Parnassus had decided to stage Coppelia, they would have selected The Australian Ballet to perform this ballet. It is difficult to find and select the proper superlative adjectives for dancers, costumes, settings, musicians, lighting, and the camera crew who created this DVD. Adjectives like: superb, magnificent, graceful, marvellous, beautiful, lovely, brilliant, excellent, divine, etc. might be used for all aspects of this performance. The viewer can easily follow the story. When we watched this Coppelia the first time, we encored the second act. Bravissimo.

Rating: - wonderful
This video is great! I've never seen such a beautiful performance before.

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Rating: - Coppelia
My daughter and I thouroughly enjoyed this production by the Australian Ballet. The costumes were beautiful and the dancing excellent. The acting , an important part of ballet that often gets forgotten, was wonderful and my five ear old could understand exactly what was going on. I'm planning to buy every video put out by the Australian Ballet as they are first rate.

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Rating: - For the "Coppelia" video
This is a really lovely performance that anybody would be pleased to watch. The dancers passess flawless tecnical ability and musicality they're last, precise and very expressive. The music is lively and buyant, the setting, stage props and costumes come straight out of the fairy-tale. The characters have a wonderful stage presence and manage to transfer us smoothly into the world of Franz and Swanilda. I believe the Australian Ballet deserves a big praise on this production, so I would give video 5 out of 5.

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Rating: - Excellent performance
This is truly an excellent performance. (Even my 3-year old granddaughter was fascinated by it.) The choreography, the dancing, the sets, lighting and costumes are all essentially flawless. The orchestra - under the baton of Noel Smith - is of high caliber, though the transfer of music onto videotape was done just a bit off speed, with the result that some sustained passages by the orchestral winds are marred by a slight 'bubble' in the sound. The camera work is some of the best to be found in the area of dance. It manages to capture the scope of the choreography while providing artistically-handled non-interruptive closeups so that we can perceive the humanness of the dancers as well as their interpretive skills.

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