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Bel Air Classiques and Image Entertainment


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I've been searching for ballet DVD's on Amazon and I noticed that Bel Air Classiques has discontinued most of its DVDs. They were supposed to release a boxed set with three performances of the Bolshoi Ballet but it was discontinued even before it was released.

Same thing happened with Image Entertainment. They discontinued Ferri's Giselle, ABT's Le Corsaire and Kirov's Sleeping Beauty. The only one that's still in print is Murphy and Corella's Swan Lake.

Can anyone tell me what is happening with these studios?

Because it would be a shame if they stopped releasing DVD's for good.

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i have no answers to this question, but i can note that w/ regard to ABT's CORSAIRE occasionally on ebay there are offers for this disc from Hong Kong - i have no idea if the distributor is official, etc. but the packaging image looks like that of the disc now dicontinued hereabouts.

if you'd like i can post a link to such ebay offers here when i come across one.

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I've been searching for ballet DVD's on Amazon and I noticed that Bel Air Classiques has discontinued most of its DVDs. They were supposed to release a boxed set with three performances of the Bolshoi Ballet but it was discontinued even before it was released.

Same thing happened with Image Entertainment. They discontinued Ferri's Giselle, ABT's Le Corsaire and Kirov's Sleeping Beauty. The only one that's still in print is Murphy and Corella's Swan Lake.

Can anyone tell me what is happening with these studios?

Because it would be a shame if they stopped releasing DVD's for good.

Check out. http://www.belairclassiques.com/spip.php?p...ro&langue=1

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I've been searching for ballet DVD's on Amazon and I noticed that Bel Air Classiques has discontinued most of its DVDs. They were supposed to release a boxed set with three performances of the Bolshoi Ballet but it was discontinued even before it was released.

The set has probably been delayed rather than discontinued. It happens quite frequently with Bel Air and can be very frustrating when attempting to pre-order a DVD. I wouldn't be surprised if the set were to re-appear on Amazon in a week or two, though perhaps under a different catalogue number.

A number of titles originally released by Image Entertainment have reappeared on Arthaus Musik. To illustrate with a non-balletic example:

http://www.amazon.com/Puccini-Madama-Butte.../dp/B00005R5HG/

http://www.amazon.com/Madama-Butterfly-Yas.../dp/B000GNOTZI/

Arthaus Musik owns the European distribution rights to the Giselle, Le Corsaire and Sleeping Beauty you mentioned, and I wouldn't be surpised if eventually the company were to issue region-free versions of those ballets in North America. They do seem to be taking their time, though.

About a year and a half ago Arthaus Musik purchased TDK Music DVD, which had been releasing lots of stuff from the POB and La Scala. Since then, TDK releases have been reduced to a trickle, which is unfortunate, and Arthaus has been re-issuing many TDK titles on the Arthaus label. Perhaps this is slowing down the re-issue of the old Image Entertainment titles.

http://www.arthaus-musik.com/templates/tyC...n&limit=all

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