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Opera in Five Acts by Charles Gounod ACT III, SCENE 1 WALPURGISNACHT BALLET

Charles Gounod

George Balanchine

June 3, 1975, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris. Danced by Paris Opéra Ballet. Conductor: Michel Plasson

Claudette Scouarnec, Sylvie Clavier, Jean-Paul Gravier; Joysane Consoli, Janine Guiton, corps de ballet

Performance Type

Ballet for Opera

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Note

In 1980, the WALPURGISNACHT BALLET [413] entered the New York City Ballet repertory as an independent work.

Additional Productions

Revisions

1979, Chicago Lyric Opera: Ballerina variation rechoreographed.

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1979 Chicago Lyric Opera
1980 New York City Ballet (Walpurgisnacht Ballet only)

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Maria Tallchief (Chicago)

From Gounod’s ‘Faust’

Charles Gounod (from Faust, produced with ballet music 1869)

George Balanchine. Staged by Brigitte Thom

Lighting by Ronald Bates

May 15, 1980, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater. Conductor: Robert Irving. (Preview: School of American Ballet Gala Benefit, January 24.)

Suzanne Farrell, Adam Lüders; Heather Watts; Stephanie Saland, Judith Fugate; 20 women

Performance Type

Ballet

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Note

alanchine’s presentation as an independent ballet of the work he originally staged as part of the Paris Opéra production of Gounod’s Faust [397] in 1975.

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1975   Paris Opera Ballet
2006   North Carolina Dance Theatre
2010   City Ballet of San Diego
2011   Opera di Roma
2014   Ballet Arizona
2015   City Ballet of San Diego
2015   Suzanne Farrell Ballet
2016   Ballet Arizona
2017   Miami City Ballet
2017   Star Dancers Ballet Company (Japan)
2019   Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
2020   City Ballet of San Diego
2022 Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Recorded Performances

Videos/DVD

1996, Nonesuch, The Balanchine Library: The Balanchine Celebration, Part One (pas de deux, 3 principals’ solos, finale)

Opera in Four Acts and Seven Scenes by Giuseppe Verdi ACT II BALLET

Giuseppe Verdi

George Balanchine and William Dollar

ca. June 8, 1945, Ópera Nacional, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Danced by advanced students from the School of American Ballet and guest soloists. Conductor: Carl Alwin

Performance Type

Ballet for Opera

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Note

Accompanying Balanchine and Dollar to Mexico were Marie-Jeanne, Nicholas Magallanes, and twelve girls from the School of American Ballet, including Patricia Wilde. Printed programs do not list dances or dancers. Balanchine choreographed Aïda, Faust, and Samson et Dalila. He may also have choreographed Carmen and Rigoletto, but no documentation has been located. Concerto Barocco [195], Apollo [84], and Dollar’s Constantia and his staging of Les Sylphides were also performed.