Feeney: Victoria - Northern Ballet (2019) [Blu-ray]

A brand new, narrative ballet about true love and grief, created to mark 200 years since Queen Victorias birth. As her death approaches, Queen Victoria writes her last diary entry before entrusting their many volumes into her daughter Beatrices care. Her surviving children arrive to say their last farewell. Beatrice begins reading the diaries, recalling the mother she knew from her childhood. As Beatrice remembers, the past unfolds. Passion, tragedy, fierce devotion. Queen Victorias diaries revealed a life so fascinating that Beatrice tried to rewrite history. Her irrepressible love for Albert sparked a royal dynasty. But his untimely death brought the world's most powerful woman to her knees with grief. Northern Ballet's new biopic brings the sensational story of Victoria to life in dance as celebration of the bicentenary of her birth with choreography by Cathy Marston, creator of Northern Ballets acclaimed Jane Eyre.

Recorded at Sadler's Wells, London, 27 and 29 March 2019.