Schedule for Prodigal Son. Le Jeune home et la mort . Ballet Imperial 2022

Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Choreography: George Balanchine
Choreography: Roland Petit

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Prodigal Son
ballet in three scenes
Music: Sergey Prokofiev (Op. 46, 1928-29)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1929)
Book: Boris Kochno (after the biblical parable)
Scenery and costumes: Georges Rouault (1929)
Scenery executed: Prince A. Schervashidze
Costumes executed: Vera Soudeikina
Staging: Karin von Aroldingen and Paul Boos
Lighting: Vladimir Lukasevich

Premiere: May 21, 1929, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt, Paris
Premiere in the Mariinsky Theatre: December, 14, 2001

Running time: 40 minutes

The Ballet of George Balanchine Prodigal Sonis presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® service standards established and provided by the Trust
The Mariinsky Theatre would like to express its gratitude to Mrs Bettina von Siemens for her support in bringing the "Ballets of George Balanchine" project to life

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is one of the earliest and most famous works by Roland Petit. The ballet was staged in post-war Paris in 1946 for the recently established company Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees. The ballet by Roland Petit which we know today is considered based on mime drama by Jean Cocteau. In actual fact, both the theme of relationships between an artist and death and the very image of a girl as death and lovers as death were key themes for Cocteau; he had his own accounts to settle with women and he himself was an artist.
A studio. The artist is unable to relax as he waits in torment. A woman appears: mysterious, sharp and heartless – the typical crafty Parisian woman – and during her brief visit she prompts the Youth to commit suicide. Moreover, she is, in fact, Death itself, its unique and original personification.


Ballet Imperial

Music: Peter Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine (1973)

Staged: Colleen Neary
Costumes after Karinska, realised: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting: Mark Stanley, realized: Vladimir Lukasevich

World premiere under the title of "Ballet Imperial": June 25, 1941, American Ballet Caravan,Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro
New production under the title of "Piano Concerto No. 2": January 12, 1973, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, New York
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 13 April, 2004

The Ballet of George Balanchine Piano Concerto No. 2 is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® service standards established and provided by the Trust

The Mariinsky Theatre would like to express its gratitude to Mrs Bettina von Siemens for her support in bringing the "Ballets of George Balanchine" project to life

Running time: 40 minutes