- Music
- Choreography
- Production
- Premiere
- Cast
I. 1. The Prodigal Son leaves the paternal home, accompanied by his two confidants.
II. 2. The Prodigal Son meets his friends and takes part in their festival. 3. Entry and dance of the Siren, which takes place beside the Prodigal Son. 4.The Confidants of the Prodigal Son entertain the guests. 5. The Prodigal Son dances with the Siren. 6. The Siren and the Friends of the Prodigal Son force him to drink. 7. The Confidants, the Friends, and the Siren strip the sleeping Prodigal Son and take flight. 8. The awakening and lamentations of the Prodigal Son. 9. Promenade of the Siren, the Confidants, and the Friends of the Prodigal Son, laden with their spoils.
III. 10. Return of the repentant Prodigal Son to the paternal home.
1950 New York City Ballet
1965 Dutch National Ballet
1966 Boston Ballet
1966 Tokyo Ballet Geikijo (disbanded)
1967 Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna)
1967 National Ballet (Washington, DC, 1963-74)
1968 Royal Danish Ballet
1969 Royal Ballet
1973 Birmingham Royal Ballet/Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet
1973 Paris Opera Ballet
1973 Royal Ballet
1974 Geneva Ballet (Grand Theatre de Geneve [Ballet])
1974 Houston Ballet
1975 Chicago Ballet
1976 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
1980 Houston Ballet
1981 American Ballet Theatre
1981 Royal Ballet
1982 Pacific Northwest Ballet
1984 Ballet Dallas
1984 San Francisco Ballet
1985 Ballett der Bayerischen Staatsoper (Munich)
1986 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
1986 Kansas City Ballet
1986 Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
1987 American Ballet Theatre
1987 Miami City Ballet
1988 Ballett der Bayerischen Staatsoper (Munich)
1989 American Ballet Theatre
1989 Atlanta Ballet
1989 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
1989 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
1989 Dutch National Ballet
1989 Kansas City Ballet
1989 Paris Opera Ballet
1989 Pennsylvania Ballet
1989 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
1990 Pacific Northwest Ballet
1991 Bolshoi Ballet
1991 Miami City Ballet
1992 Pennsylvania Ballet
1993 Paris Opera Ballet
1993 Royal Ballet
1994 Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse
1994 Birmingham Royal Ballet/Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet
1994 Ballett der Deutschen Oper (Berlin)
1994 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
1994 Sacramento Ballet
1995 Ballett der Bayerischen Staatsoper (Munich)
1995 Dance Theatre of Harlem
1995 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
1995 Paris Opera Ballet
1995 Teatro Comunale (Florence, Italy)
1996 Grand Theatre de Bordeaux
1996 Dutch National Ballet
1997 Ballet de Nancy (France)
1997 Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse
1997 Dance Theatre of Harlem
1997 Ballett der Deutschen Oper (Berlin)
1997 Hartford Ballet
1997 Texas Ballet (formerly Fort Worth Dallas Ballet)
1998 Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung (Munich, Germany)
1998 Kansas City Ballet
1998 Pennsylvania Ballet
1998 Sacramento Ballet
1999 Dance Theatre of Harlem
1999 Miami City Ballet
2000 Alberta Ballet
2000 American Ballet Theatre
2000 Joffrey Ballet
2000 Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
2001 Birmingham Royal Ballet/Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet
2001 Kirov Ballet
2001 Paris Opera Ballet
2002 Grand Theatre de Bordeaux
2003 Ballet Arizona
2003 Boston Ballet
2003 Dance Theatre of Harlem
2003 Paris Opera Ballet
2004 Birmingham Royal Ballet
2004 Dance Theatre of Harlem
2004 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
2004 Pacific Northwest Ballet
2005 Ballet Arlington
2005 Grand Theatre de Bordeaux
2005 Miami City Ballet
2005 K-Ballet (Tokyo)
2006 Pennsylvania Ballet
2008 Finnish National Ballet
2009 Los Angeles Ballet
2009 Grand Rapids Ballet
2009 Ballet West
2009 Dutch National Ballet (Amsterdam)
2009 K-Ballet (Tokyo)
2009 Hamburg Ballet
2010 Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
2011 Carolina Ballet
2011 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
2011 Sarasota Ballet, The
2012 Polish National Ballet
2012 Suzanne Farrell Ballet
2013 Cincinnati Ballet
2013 Oregon Ballet Theatre
2014 Ballet du Capitole, Toulouse
2014 Joffrey Ballet
2015 Mariinsky Ballet
2015 Pacific Northwest Ballet
2015 Pennsylvania Ballet
2016 American Ballet Theatre
2016 Pacific Northwest Ballet
2017 Los Angeles Ballet
2017 San Francisco Ballet
2017 Washington Ballet
2019 Ballet West
2022 Collage Dance Collective
2022 Miami City Ballet
2004, Kultur, Balanchine (I,1; III, 10: departure and homecoming; rehearsal with Balanchine)
1973 (ABC, Wide World of Entertainment)
1975 (French television)
1978 (PBS, Dance in America)
1983 (French television, Channel 2)
1984 excerpts, including Balanchine in rehearsal (PBS, Dance in America, “Balanchine”)
2001 (Telemondis [France])
Boris Kochno has corrected the general misunderstanding that the book for the ballet is based on a story by Pushkin. The printed program for the premiere performance names the conductor, Sergei Prokofiev, as l’auteur; this is repeated by Prokofiev in his Autobiography (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959, p. 74), and by Robert Craft in Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents (p. 287). Grigoriev (The Diaghilev Ballet, p. 278) names Roger Desormière as conductor, which Balanchine believed to be correct.
