The Elegance Series is a collection of breathtaking Ballet performances from internationally renowned houses with well-loved Dance Stars. They feature productions by the greatest choreographers that we know today and of course the legacy of the legendary Marius Petipa. John Neumeier’s free adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella “Death in Venice” for the marvellous dancers of the Hamburg Ballett walks a fi ne line between astute theatricality and melodrama, between brilliant passages of movement and banal gestures. The primary message is that the life of an artist - even a famous, successful one - can be hell unless he’s in creative touch with his inner child, his emotions.