Marguerite et armand sylvie guillem biography
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MARGUERITE AND ARMAND (1963)
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Ballet in one act: Prologue and four scenes, after The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils
Abbreviations:
M Music by
S Scenery by
C Costumes by
D Danced by
FP First performance
NP New production
R Reproduced by
ST Staging (indicates that the ballet was produced in substantially its original form)
M Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Humphrey Searle (La lugubre gondola, No 1, 1883 and Sonata in B minor, 1854)
(new orchestration by Gordon Jacob, 15 March 1968)
SC Cecil Beaton
D Marguerite: Margot Fonteyn (in prologue, Ann Jenner)
Armand: Rudolf Nureyev
His Father: Michael Somes
A Duke: Leslie Edwards
Maid: Barbara Remington
Admirers of Marguerite: corps de ballet
FP Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 12 March 1963
ST Royal Ballet touring section
D in all stagings, Marguerite: Margot Fonteyn; Armand: Rudolf Nureyev
FP Hessiches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, 28 May 1968
NP Nureyev Festi