390. L'Enfant et les Sortilèges 1975
Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts
- Music
Maurice Ravel (1920-25). Libretto by Colette (translated by Catherine Wolff)
- Choreography
George Balanchine. TEA POT and LITTLE MATH MAN with 10 NUMBERS choreographed by Jerome Robbins
- Production
Scenery and costumes by Kermit Love. Supervising Designer: David Mitchell. Lighting by Ronald Bates
- Premiere
May 15, 1975, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater. Conductor: Manuel Rosenthal. (Preview: Annual New York City Ballet Gala Benefit, May 14.)
- Cast
Each role performed by a singer off stage (six singers) and a dancer on stage. Child (sung and danced), Paul Offenkranz; His Mother; Armchair; Bergère; Clock; Tea Pot; Chinese Cup; Fire, Marnee Morris; Cinder; 3 Shepherdesses; 3 Shepherds; Princess, Christine Redpath; Little Math Man; 10 Numbers; Black Cat, Jean-Pierre Frohlich; Gray Cat, Tracy Bennett; Dragonflies and Moths, Colleen Neary, 7 women; Big Frog; 5 Little Frogs; Tree (sung only); Squirrels and 2 Trees, Stephanie Saland, 5 women, 2 men
Performance Type
Opera-Ballet
See Also
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*48. L'Enfant et les Sortilèges,
235. The Spellbound Child (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges),
416. The Spellbound Child/L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Note
Included in the Ravel Festival. (See FESTIVALS DIRECTED BY BALANCHINE.)
Additional Productions
Other Versions
1925, Opéra de Monte-Carlo (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, danced by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes).
1946, Ballet Society (The Spellbound Child [L’Enfant et les Sortilèges]).
1981, for the PBS television series Dance in America (The Spellbound Child / L’Enfant et les Sortilèges).
1946, Ballet Society (The Spellbound Child [L’Enfant et les Sortilèges]).
1981, for the PBS television series Dance in America (The Spellbound Child / L’Enfant et les Sortilèges).
Barbara Horgan, Deborah Koolish
