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Valse
Poème chorégaphique
M Maurice Ravel (1919-1920)
SC André Levasseur
D Vera Colombo, Mario Pistoni, Carmen Puthod, Giulio Perugini,
Elettra Morini, Walter Vendetti, and corps de ballet
FP Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 31 January 1958
ST Royal Ballet; D
Deirdre Dixon, Christine Beckley, Jacqueline Darryl, Gary Burne, Richard
Farley, Keith Rosson
FP Royal Opera House, London, 10 March 1959
By
other companies:
ST Royal Danish Ballet;
R Frederick Ashton and Robert Mead:
D Benedikte Paaske, Eva Kloborg, Lis Jeppesen, Arne Bech,
Johnny Eliasen, Bjarne Hecht
FP Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen, 10 December 1982
La Valse
ST Royal Ballet School: R Christopher Carr; FP Royal Opera House, London, 16 July 2005
[Orfeo
ed Euridice]
Opera in two acts by Raniero de'Calzabigi
M Christoph Willibald Gluck
Production by Gustav Grüdgens
SC Hein Heckroth
Cast: Orfeo: Fedora Barbieri; Amore: Françoise Orgeas; Euridice:
Sena Jurinac
D Vera Colombo, Roberto Fascilla, Carla Fracci, Gilda Majocchi,
Mario Pistoni, Bruno Tellosi
FP Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 18 February 1958
Ondine
Ballet in three acts, freely adapted by Frederick Ashton from the story
by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
M Hans Werner Henze
SC Lila de Nobili
D Ondine: Margot Fonteyn; Palemon: Michael Somes; Berta: Julia Farron;
Tirrenio, Lord of the Mediterranean Sea: Alexander Grant; A Hermit: Leslie
Edwards; Grand pas classique: Rosemary Lindsay, Annette Page, Ronald Hynd,
Desmond Doyle, and corps de ballet; Divertissement: Maryon Lane, Brian
Shaw, Merle Park, Doreen Wells, Peter Clegg, Pirmin Trecu, and corps de
ballet; Ondines, Hunt, Wood Sprites, People from the Port, Sailors, Wedding
Guests, Lackeys, Footmen, Acolytes, Page: corps de ballet
FP Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 27 October 1958
NP Royal
Ballet; revised choreography; D (principals) as above; FP Royal Opera
House, London, 2 June 1958
NP Royal Ballet; with
further revisions:D Ondine: Margot Fonteyn;
Palemon: Donald MacLeary; Berta: Deanne Bergsma; Tirrenio; Alexander Grant
FP Royal Opera House, London, 14 February 1964
ST Royal
Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; "Vision of Ondine"
only; D Ondine: Christine Aitken; Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
ST Royal
Ballet; Act III divertissement only:
D Wendy Ellis, Wayne Eagling, Laura Connor, Rosalyn Whitten, Stephen Beagley,
Ashley Page;
FP Royal Opera House, London, 29 May 1981 (50th Anniversary Programme)
ST Royal
Ballet; R Christopher Newton
D Ondine: Maria Almeida; Palemon: Anthony Dowell; Berta: Deanne Bergsma;
Tirrenio: Stephen Jefferies; Divertissement: Rosalyn Whitten, Bruce Sansom,
Fiona Brockway, Nicola Roberts, Anthony Dowson, Jay Jolley
FP Royal Opera House, London, 10 May 1988
By
other companies:
ST Ballets
de Noël; pas de deux from Act I only;
D Ondine: Margot Fonteyn; Palemon: Michael Somes;
FP Théâtre de Monte Carlo, 3 January 1959
ST Ballet
of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan: R Christopher Carr, Grant Coyle, Donald
MacLeary;
D Ondine: Alessandra Ferri; Palemon: Adam Cooper; Berta: Sabina Galasso;
Tirrenio: Biagio Tambone
FP Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 21 April 2000
copyright © 2004
by David Vaughan
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