Ballet Variations (Ballett-Variationen)

Choreographic poem

dedicated to the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin on occasion of it's 75th anniversary

Year of composition 1949
New version 1998
Playing time 16…

Ballet Variations (Ballett-Variationen)

Dancing classes (Tanzstunden)

A trilogy

Le Disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella
Le fils de l'air
Labyrinth

Year of composition 1996
Duration 110 minutes

Dancing classes (Tanzstunden)

The Emperor’s Nightingale (L'usignolo dell'imperatore)

Ballet pantomime by Giulio di Majo

freely adapted from the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen

Commissioned by the Venice Biennale

Year of composition 1959
Revised version 1970
Duratio…

The Emperor’s Nightingale (L'usignolo dell'imperatore)

Icare

Ballet for Tatjana Gsovsky (sketches)

Icare

The Idiot (Der Idiot)

Mimodrama. Scenes from the novel of the same title by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky

Based on an idea by Tatjana Gsovsky
Poem (Myshkin’s monologues) by Ingeborg Bachmann (1953)

Year of composition 1952
Revised version1990
Duration 40…

The Idiot (Der Idiot)

Jack Pudding

Ballet in three parts

Year of composition 1949
Duration Ballet  45 minutes
Duration Ballett-Suite 30 minutes

Jack Pudding

Labyrinth

Ballet in one act by Mark Baldwin

Commissioned by the Schwetzinger Festspiele


Year of composition1951
New version
1996
Duration 24 minutes

Labyrinth

Maratona

Dance drama by Luchino Visconti

One set

Year of composition 1956
Duration 50 minutes

Dedicated to Jean Babilée

Maratona

Mr. Pulcinella in Despair Again (Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella)

Dance comedy with song

Libretto (freely adapted after Molière) by Sergio Sivori
English by David Paul Graham

Commissioned by the Schwetzinger Festspiele

Period of…

Mr. Pulcinella in Despair Again (Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella)

Ondine (Undine)

Ballet in three acts by Frederick Ashton

(freely adapted from De la Motte-Fouqué)

Commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Period of composition 1956-57
Duration 110 minutes

Wr…

Ondine (Undine)

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