392. Le Tombeau de Couperin 1975
- Music
Maurice Ravel (four movements orchestrated by the composer from the six-part suite originally written for piano, 1919)
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Production
Lighting by Ronald Bates
- Premiere
May 29, 1975, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater. Conductor: Robert Irving
- Cast
LEFT QUADRILLE: Judith Fugate, Jean-Pierre Frohlich; Wilhelmina Frankfurt, Victor Castelli; Muriel Aasen, Francis Sackett; Susan Hendl, David Richardson;
RIGHT QUADRILLE: Marjorie Spohn, Hermes Condé; Delia Peters, Richard Hoskinson; Susan Pilarre, Richard Dryden; Carol Sumner, Laurence Matthews.
PRÉLUDE; FORLANE; MENUET; RIGAUDON
RIGHT QUADRILLE: Marjorie Spohn, Hermes Condé; Delia Peters, Richard Hoskinson; Susan Pilarre, Richard Dryden; Carol Sumner, Laurence Matthews.
PRÉLUDE; FORLANE; MENUET; RIGAUDON
Performance Type
Ballet
Note
Included in the Ravel Festival. The two quadrilles perform in geometric patterns, often with identical steps and gestures, simultaneously or in canon. (See FESTIVALS DIRECTED BY BALANCHINE.)
1975 Paris Opera Ballet
1977 Geneva Ballet (Grand Theatre de Geneve [Ballet])
1981 Zurich Ballet (Ballett des Opernhauses Zurich)
1985 Dutch National Ballet
