Carmen Suite
Music by
Georges Bizet ЁC
Rodion ShchedrinChoreography by
Alberto Alonso
Production Choreographer:
Viktor Barykin
Production Designer:
Boris Messerer
World premiere: 20 April 1967, Bolsoi Theatre,
Moscow
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 19 April 2010
Running
time: 45 minutes
Without
Music: Frederic Chopin, Etudes,
Preludes
Choreography by Benjamin Millepied
Coaches and Repetiteurs:
Celine Cassone and Jean-Francois Kessler
Costume Designer:
Benjamin Millepied
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Production Sponsor: Toshihiko Takahashi
Choreographer - Benjamin
Millepied
Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
Ballet in
two scenes
To music by Johann Sebastian Bach
(Passacaglia in §і Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra
by Alexander Goedicke)
Libretto by
Jean Cocteau
Choreography by Roland Petit
Production Choreographer: Luigi Bonino
Lighting Designer:
Jean-Michel DЁ¦sirЁ¦
Set Designer: Georges Wakhevitch
Costume Designer: Karinska
Production Sponsor: Toshihiko Takahashi
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 ЁC the typical crafty Parisian woman ЁC
and during her brief visit she prompts the Youth to commit suicide. Moreover,
she is, in fact, Death itself, its unique and original personification.