Woolf Works Blu-ray (The Royal Ballet)Woolf Works (2015), now available in Blu ray, was Wayne McGregor's first full length piece for The Royal Ballet and saw the return to the Royal Opera House Main Stage of the former Royal Ballet Principal dancer Alessandra Ferri. Resembling the synaesthetic relationship between form and substance in Virginia Woolf's writings, each of the three acts is not only rooted from her letters, essays and diaries, but in one of Woolf's prominent novels: Mrs

Additional designs: Peter Farmer

the daring and the darkness of his complex and fascinating characters

Extras: Introduction to Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci

and acclaimed conductor Charles Mackerras interpreting Mozart’s score

A story of betrayal

to Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto

and the distorting mirror of memory

in the arms of Belinda

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Anthony Twiner

Diana Damrau might have brought the house down as the Queen of the Night - her astonishing performance of the opera's most famous aria has now racked up millions of views on YouTube - but the rest of the cast aren't bad either

Bringing in contrasting vigor

Luke Heydon & Carlos Acosta