137. Fastes 1933
- Music
Henri Sauguet (1933, commissioned by Boris Kochno). Book by André Derain
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Production
Scenery and costumes by André Derain
- Premiere
June 10, 1933, Les Ballets 1933, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Conductor: Maurice Abravanel
- Cast
The Genii, Serge Ismailoff, Ludovic Matlinsky; The Matrons, 6 women; Two Persian Saltateurs, Lucienne Kylberg, Tamara Sidorenko; Two Buffoons, Ismailoff, Matlinsky; The Courtesan, Tamara Tchinarova; The Young Girl, Tamara Toumanova; The Lupercalian Priest, Roman Jasinsky
Performance Type
Ballet
Note
The scene is a Latin feast in Etruscan Italy; two genii attend pagan rites performed by matrons, buffoons, acrobats. The Young Girl encounters a priest of Lupercal; wearing a three-faced mask, he dances for her a parable of youth, maturity, and old age. A final scene of orgy ends in ridicule with the entrance of the donkey of Silenus.
