Beyond Bach/The Leaves are Fading/Marguerite and Armand - T793025295Remembrances of things past flood through these ballets. Opening the programme is a ballet new to the company, Australian choreographer [Stephen Baynes]' highly acclaimed Beyond Bach. Described at the time of its premiere as a love poem to the form and structure of classical ballet. Baynes choreographs some of [Bach]'s most radiant music including The Third Orchestral Suite, and Sheep May Safely Graze. The Leaves are Fading is one of the last works by the British choreographer [Antony Tudor]. Created in 1977 for Gelsey Kirkland and dancers of American Ballet Theatre, it hints at being a collective portrait of a woman's memories as seven couples dance an elegiac series of romantic duets to movements from [Dvorak] String Quartets. Completing the programme is [Frederick Ashton]'s Marguerite and Armand an adaptation of [Dumas]' La Dame aux camelias, the story of the doomed, turbulent passion between a courtesan and her young, idealistic lover.Conductor Charles Barker. Choreographer Stephen Baynes (Beyond Bach). Music J.S. Bach (Beyond Bach). Design Andrew Carter (Beyond Bach). Costume Anna French (Beyond Bach). Lighting Kenneth Rayner (Beyond Bach). Choreographer Antony Tudor (The Leaves..). Music Dvorak (The Leaves..). Director Airi Hynninnen (The Leaves..). Design Ming Cho Lee (The Leaves..). Costume Patricia Zippordt (The Leaves..). Lighting Jennifer Tipton (The Leaves..). Choreographer Fredrick Ashton (Marguerite..). Music Franz Liszt (Marguerite..). Music Dudley Simpson (orchestration -Marguerite..). Design Cecil Beaton (Marguerite..). Lighting John B Read (Marguerite..). | |
| 26 Jan 02 to 9 Feb 02 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L01467382215 |
