114. Une Nuit à Venise (Eine Nacht in Venedig) 1932
Comic Opera in Three Acts and Five Scenes by Johann Strauss the Younger
ACTS I, II, III BALLETS
- Music
Johann Strauss
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Premiere
February 2, 1932, Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Danced by Ballets [Russes] de Monte-Carlo. Conductor: Gabriel Grovlez
- Cast
ACT I BALLET: 12 women. ACT II VALSE: 6 couples. ACT III MAZURKA: 3 couples. GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE: Valentina Blinova, Léon Woizikowsky, 3 women
Performance Type
Ballet for Opera
Note
The three women in the Grand Pas Classique were Tamara Toumanova, Hélène Slavinsky, and Olga Morosova. Toumanova remembered this as her first ‘big variation.’
Choreography acknowledged by Balanchine
