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deux pigeons (The Two Pigeons)
An Allegory in two acts and three scenes, based on the fable by La Fontaine
M André Messager, arranged and partly orchestrated by John Lanchbery
(ballet, 1886, with one number from Véronique, opéra-comique,
1898)
SC Jacques Dupont
D The Young Man: Christopher Gable; The Young Girl: Lynn Seymour; His
Mother (renamed A Neighbour: 1974): Shirley Bishop; A Gypsy Girl: Elizabeth
Anderton; Her Lover: Robert Mead; A Gypsy Boy; Johaar Mosaval; Two Old
Gypsy Crones: Lorna Mossford, Valerie Deakin; Friends of the Young Girl,
Gypsies, Sightseers: corps de ballet
FP Royal Ballet touring section, Royal Opera House, London,
14 February 1961
ST Royal Ballet; D
The Young Man: Alexander Grant; The Young Girl; Lynn Seymour; A Gypsy
Girl: Georgina Parkinson; Her Lover: Robert Mead; A Gypsy Boy: Laurence
Ruffell
FP Royal Opera House, London, 16 October 1962
ST Royal
Ballet School; D The Young Man: Graham Powell; The Young Girl: Lesley
Collier; A Gypsy Girl: Margaret Barbieri; Her Lover: Nicholas Johnson;
A Gypsy Boy: Wayne Sleep
FP Royal Opera House, London, 17 July 1965
ST Ballet for All;
Act II pas de deux only; FP Playhouse, Walton- on-Thames, 18 January 1975
ST Birmingham Royal
Ballet; R ?:
D The Young Girl: Dorcas Walters; The Young Man: Robert Parker; A Gypsy
Girl: Asya Verzhbinsky; Her Lover: Joseph Cipolla
FP Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, 5 April 2000
By
other companies:
NP CAPAB Ballet Company; R Faith Worth; SC Peter Rice; D The Boy: Gary
Burne; The Girl; Phyllis Spira; Gypsy Girl: Janice Worth; Her Lover: John
Simons
FP Civic Theatre, Belleville, South Africa, 19 October 1968
ST The Australian
Ballet; R Robert Mead; D The Boy: Kelvin Coe; The Girl: Lucette Aldous;
Gypsy Girl: Marilyn Rowe; Her Lover; Jonathan Kelly; Gypsy Boy: Paul Saliba
FP Opera House, Sydney, 30 April 1973
ST National Ballet
of Canada; R Lynn Wallis; FP O'Keefe Center, Toronto, 28 February 1979
NP CAPAB Ballet Company; R Lynn Wallis and David Poole; SC Peter Cazalet:
D The Young Man: Edward Greyling; The Young Girl: Phyllis Spira; A Gypsy
Girl: Elizabeth Triegaardt; Her Lover: John Simons; FP Nico Malan Opera
House, Cape Town, 28 March 1980
ST Houston Ballet;
R Robert Mead (restaged 1992 by Lynn Seymour): FP Jones Hall, Houston
TX, 12 May 1983
ST Les Ballets de
Monte Carlo; as Les deux pigeons; R Robert Mead: FP Opéra de Monte
Carlo, Monaco, 18 April 1987
ST Ballet of the Teatro
Regio; R Faith Worth: FP Teatro Regio, Torino, 18 January 1992
ST Noriko
Kobayashi Ballet Theatre; R Dennis Bonner: FP Tokyo, 17 October 1992
NP Ballet de Nice;
as Les deux pigeons; R Faith Worth; SC Carlo Diappi:
D La jeune fille: Elena Kniazkova; Le peintre: Wilfried Romoli; La gitane:
Sylvie Sangiorgio; Le chef des gitans: Filippo Verdirosi; Le jeune gitan:
Nicolas Blanc
FP Opéra de Nice, 8 December 1995
ST Hong Kong Ballet;
R Faith Worth: FP Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong, 9 May 1996
ST Scottish Ballet;
R Denis Bonner and Lesley Collier;
D Young Girl: Sarah Wildor; Young Man: Ivan Dinev; Gypsy Girl: Lorna Scott;
Her Lover: Luca Martini
FP Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 16 April 2002
ST National Ballet of Georgia: R Denis Bonner, Margaret Barbieri; SC Alexandre Vassiliev and David Monavardisashvili
D Young Girl: Nino Gogua; Young Man: Irakli Bakhtadze; Gypsy Girl: Lali Kandelaki; Her Lover: David Khozashvili
FP Tbili Z Palisashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia, 26 October 2006
Poème
tragique
M Alexander Scriabin (opus 34)
C William Chappell
D Rudolf Nureyev
FP Royal Academy of Dancing Gala Matinée, Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane, London, 2 Novemer 1961
Persephone
Melodrama in three scenes by André Gide
M Igor Stravinsky (melodrama in three scenes, 1933-1934)
SC Nico Ghika
D Persephone: Svetlana Beriosova; Mercury: Alexander Grant; Pluto: King
of the Underworld: Keith Rosson; Demeter, Mother of Persephone: Gerd Larsen;
Demaphoön, Persephone's earthly husband: Derek Rencher; Eumolpus,
the High Priest (tenor): André Turp; Friends of Persephone: Georgina
Parkinson, Christine Beckley, Monica Mason, Audrey Farris, Pamela Moncur;
Oceanides: Deanne Bergsma, Vyvyan Lorrayne, Betty Kavanagh, Rosalind Eyre,
Louanne Richards, Heather Clipperton; Hours; same as Oceanides; Nymphs,
Shades, Attendants, Adolescents:
corps de ballet
FP Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 12 December 1961
ST Royal
Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; excerpt only;
D Persephone: Svetlana Beriosova; Mercury: Alexander Grant; Demeter: Gerd
Larsen; Demaphoön; Derek Rencher; Royal Opera House, London, 24 July
1970
copyright © 2004
by David Vaughan
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