Birm­ing­ham Royal Bal­let: Car­los Acost­a's Clas­sical Se­lec­tion

Birmingham Royal Ballet, one of the world's great ballet companies, visits Iceland for the first time with Director Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection.

From sensational, heart-stopping moments to comic masterpieces, there’s instantly recognisable music and dance that will bring the house down. Performed by the Company's leading dancers, the show is full of sparkling classical highlights that include Frederick Ashton’s exquisite Rhapsody (Rachmaninov), created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lesley Collier, Carlos’s own temperature-raising Carmen (after Bizet), Ben Van Cauwenbergh's popular French chanson-inspired Je ne regrette rien (Edith Piaf) and Les Bourgeois (Jacques Brel), Carlos’s interpretation of Fokine’s The Dying Swan (Saint-Saëns), and spectacular pas de deux from Bournonville’s delightful La Sylphide, the explosive Diana and Actaeon, and the iconic Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky).

For exciting talent and breathtaking dance, Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection?is THE show to see.

Photo: Principal dancer Céline Gittens. ©Johan Persson