Winter Dreams is a one-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to piano pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky selected and arranged by Philip Gammon and traditional Russian music selected and arranged for guitar and mandolin ensemble by Thomas Hartman.
[2] First performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theater, it concerns the intricate relationships of three sisters marooned in the stultifying atmosphere of a provincial Russian garrison town at the turn of the twentieth century.
She falls passionately in love, for the first time, with the idealistic Colonel Vershinin, the commander of the local army garrison.
The sisters' brother, Andrey, is married to Natasha, a social climber who has ambitions of taking over the family home.
Produced and directed for BBC Television by Derek Bailey, it was recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1990.