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Opera in Four Acts by Giuseppe Verdi ACT III BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT (GYPSY DANCE)
Giuseppe Verdi
George Balanchine
December 16, 1935, Metropolitan Opera, New York. Danced by American Ballet Ensemble. Conductor: Ettore Panizza
Anatole Vilzak, Gisella Caccialanza, Ruthanna Boris, Constantine Iolas, Joseph Levinoff, corps de ballet
Performance Type
Ballet for Opera
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Note
Balanchine’s first choreography for the Metropolitan Opera during the three-year residence of the American Ballet as American Ballet Ensemble.
Opera in Four Acts by Amilcare Ponchielli ACT I TARANTELLA; ACT III DANCE OF THE HOURS
Amilcare Ponchielli
George Balanchine
January 26, 1929, Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Danced by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Conductor: Michel Steiman
TARANTELLA: Vera Petrova, Nicholas Efimov, 4 women.
DANCE OF THE HOURS: Morning (Dawn), Felia Doubrovska, Mezeslav Borovsky, 4 women; Day, Alexandra Danilova, Léon Woizikowsky, 4 women; Evening, Petrova, Efimov, 4 women; Night, Lubov Tchernicheva, Constantin Tcherkas, 4 women
Performance Type
Ballet for Opera
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