Music: By Alexander Glazounov (from Raymonda, Op. 57, produced 1898).

Choreography: By George Balanchine.

Production: Scenery by Horace Armistead (from Lilac Garden [Tudor], 1951). Costumes by Karinska. Lighting by David Hays.

Premiere: December 7, 1961, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Robert Irving.

Cast: VALSE: Patricia Wilde, 12 women; PAS DE DEUX: Wilde, Jacques d'Amboise; VARIATION I: Victoria Simon; VARIATION II: Suki Schorer; VARIATION III: d'Amboise; VARIATION IV: Wilde; VARIATION V: Gloria Govrin; VARIATION VI: Carol Sumner; VARIATION VII: Patricia Neary; VARIATION VIII: d'Amboise; VARIATION IX: Wilde; CODA AND FINALE: Wilde, d'Amboise, ensemble.

Note: To selections from the score of Raymonda, Balanchine developed in his twentieth-century terms the heritage of the three-act Petipa original of 1898. Unlike Pas de Dix [309] and Cortège Hongrois [384], also set to various excerpts from Raymonda, the choreography is completely new; there are no Petipa quotations.

Archival Video: George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters Archive (PAS DE DEUX; VARIATIONS IV, IX), 1996; George Balanchine Foundation Archive of Lost Choreography (VARIATIONS II, III), 2000.