398. The Steadfast Tin Soldier 1975
- Music
Georges Bizet (from Jeux d’Enfants, Opp. 22-26, 1871: no. 6, TROMPETTE ET TAMBOUR; no. 3, LA POUPÉE; no. 11, PETIT MARI, PETITE FEMME; no. 12, LE BAL)
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Production
Scenery and costumes by David Mitchell. Lighting by Ronald Bates
- Premiere
July 30, 1975, New York City Ballet, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York. Conductor: Robert Irving. (First New York State Theater performance January 22, 1976.)
- Cast
Patricia McBride, Peter Schaufuss
MARCHE; BERCEUSE; DUO; GALOP
MARCHE; BERCEUSE; DUO; GALOP
Performance Type
Ballet
Note
Balanchine transformed the Hans Christian Andersen story into a pas de deux recounting the courtship and love between the tin soldier and the paper-doll ballerina. The soldier gives the ballerina his tin heart, but a draft pulls her into the fire in the fireplace and she is consumed. All that remains is the heart, which the soldier, weeping, rescues. The production was commissioned by the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
1981 Municipal Theatre of Berne
1981 Zurich Ballet (Ballett des Opernhauses Zurich)
1986 Pennsylvania Ballet
1987 Louisville Ballet
1987 Miami City Ballet
1987 Stamford City Ballet
1988 Ballet Chicago
1988 Louisville Ballet
1989 Pennsylvania Ballet
1989 Tulsa Ballet Theatre
1990 Ballet Chicago
1991 Pennsylvania Ballet
1992 Miami City Ballet
1994 Louisville Ballet
1995 Pennsylvania Ballet
1998 Carolina Ballet
1998 Louisville Ballet
1998 Miami City Ballet
2000 Allegheny Ballet Company
2000 Copenhagen International Ballet
2001 Nashville City Ballet
2004 San Francisco Ballet
2006 Carolina Ballet
2013 Carolina Ballet
2013 Miami City Ballet
Recorded Performances
Videos/DVD
1998, Nonesuch, The Balanchine Library: Choreography by Balanchine [1979]
1979 (PBS, Dance in America)
