| Marguerite
and Armand
Ballet in one act: Prologue and four scenes, after The Lady of the Camellias
by Alexandre Dumas fils
M Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Humphrey Searle (La lugubre gondola, No
1, 1883 and Sonata in B minor, 1854)
(new orchestration by Gordon Jacob, 15 March 1968)
SC Cecil Beaton
D Marguerite: Margot Fonteyn (in prologue, Ann Jenner); Armand: Rudolf
Nureyev; His Father: Michael Somes; A Duke: Leslie Edwards; Maid: Barbara
Remington; Admirers of Marguerite: corps de ballet
FP Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 12 March 1963
ST Royal
Ballet touring section:
D in all stagings, Marguerite: Margot Fonteyn; Armand: Rudolf Nureyev;
FP Hessiches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, 28 May 1968
Marguerite
and Armand
NP Nureyev Festival: M orch Dudley Simpson (La lugubre gondola
omitted); D
in all stagings, Marguerite: Margot Fonteyn; Armand: Rudolf Nureyev;
FP Coliseum, London, 4 July 1977
Marguerite and Armand
ST Paris Opera Ballet: D Marguerite: Sylvie Guillem; Armand: Nicolas Le
Riche
NP Opera de Paris/Palais Garnier, 20 January 2003
NP Royal Ballet; R uncredited; M orch Dudley Simpson:
D Marguerite: Sylvie Guillem; Armand: Nicolas Le Riche; His Father: David
Drew FP Royal Opera House, London, 29 February 2000
ST Royal Ballet/Paris Opera Ballet: R Grant Coyle:
D Marguerite: Sylvie Guillem; Armand: Nicolas Le Riche; His Father: Anthony
Dowell;
FP Entente Cordiale gala, Opéra National de Paris, Palais Garnier,
29 September 2004
By
other companies:
ST La Scala,
Milan; under the title Margherita e Armando; FP Teatro all Scala, Milan,
16 September 1966
ST Ballet of the Opéra,
Paris; FP Opéra, Paris, 17 November 1966
ST Teatro
Colón, Buenos Aires; under the title Margarita y Armando; FP Teatro
Colón, Buenos Aires, 14 April 1967
ST Associaçao
de Ballet do Rio de Janeiro; FP Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, 25 April
1967
ST Ballett der Wiener
Staatsoper; under the title Marguerite und Armand; R Leslie Edwards: FP
Staatsoper, Vienna, 10 September 1967
ST An Evening with Fonteyn and Nureyev; new C William Chappell, Uris Theater,
New York NY, 28 November 1975: FP John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC,
8 July 1975
copyright © 2004
by David Vaughan
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