Music: Stravinsky
Choreography: Balanchine
Follows Apollo from his birth, through his education, to his final ascent of Mount Parnassus.
L’Après-midi d’un faune (1912)
Music: Debussy
Choreography: Nijinsky
A faun, playing on his flute one summer afternoon falls in love with a nymph.
La Bayadère
Music: Minkus
Choreography: Petipa
Tells of a love triangle between the bayadère Nikya, Solor and Gamzatti.
Cinderella
Music: Prokofiev
Choreography: versions by Ashton and others
Based on Perraults famous fairy tale about the love of Cinderella and Prince Charming despite interference from the two ugly sisters.
Coppélia (1870)
Music: Delibes
Choreography: Saint-Léon
Le Corsaire (1856)
Music: Adam and others
Choreography: Mazilier
Based on Lord Byron’s poem “The Corsair” about a Greek girl sold into slavery.
The Dream (1964)
Music: Mendelssohn
Choreography: Ashton
Roughly following the plot of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, it centres around and argument between Titania and Oberon over a mysterious Indian boy and the loves of Helena.
Elite Syncopations (1974)
Music: S. Joplin and others
Choreography: MacMillan
Ragtime ballet set in a dance hall.
The Firebird (1910)
Music: Stravinsky
Choreography: Fokine
Based on various Russian fairy tales, it tells of Prince Ivan who captures the Firebird.
Giselle (1841)
Music: Adam
Choreography: Coralli and Perrot
Follows the romance between Giselle, a peasant girl, and Albrecht, a count.
Medea (1950)
Music: Bartók
Choreography: Cullberg
Ballet of love and revenge, based on an Ancient Greek legend.
The Nutcracker (1892)
Music: Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Ivanov
Clara is given a nutcracker for Christmas. At night, all her gifts come to life.
Swan Lake (1895)
Music: Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Petipa/Ivanvo
Tells the story of Princess Odette, who is turned into a swan.
A Month in the Country ( 1976)
Music: Chopin
Choreography: Ashton
Based on a play by Turgenev about the love-triangle between Natalia Petrovna, her ward Vera, and a tutor Beliaev.
Les Noces (1923)
Music: Stravinsky
Choreography: Nijinska
Based on a Russian wedding ritual.
Petrushka (1911)
Music: Stravinsky
Choreography: Fokine
The owner of a puppet theatre has three puppets, Petrushkam, the Ballerina and the Moor who come to life.
The Prince of the Pagodas (1957)
Music: Britten
Choreography: Cranko
Fairy tale ballet about the Emperor of the Middle Kingdom and his two daughters.
Romeo and Juliet
Music: Prokofiev
Choreography: versions by Ashton, MacMillan and Others
Follows Shakespeare’s tragedy of social conflict.
The Sleeping Beauty
Music: Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Petipa
Based on Perrault’s famous fairy tale.
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