to music by Johann Sebastian Bach/Ottorno
Respighi Libretto by Jean Cocteau Choreography by Roland Petit Sets
by Georges Wakhevitch
Working together, Roland Petit and Jean Cocteau
produced a masterpiece which, to this day (it was created in 1946), works its
magic on both public and dancers. Stars with worldwide reputations have appeared
in this small ballet, among them Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. In
terms of its emotional and psychological intensity this miniature is in no way
inferior to a full-length ballet.