Nijinsky- Gala III    17 July 1977
          -  Shakespeare danced ( Shakespeare vertanzt ) -


This program is from the 1977 Year Book.


Conductor: Kazuhiro Koizumi
Orchestra: Philharmonische Staatsorcheter

Dance for the Beginning
( Tanz fuer Anfang )
Music : Benjamin Britten
Courtly Dances from "Gloriana"

Choreography :
John Neumeier
Angelica Bornhausen - Eugen Ivanics
Lynne Charles - Kevin Haigen
Beatrice Cordua - Victor Hughes
Persephone Samaropoulo - Tanju Tuezer
Rosa Sickert - Ivan Liska
The Dream Music : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Choreography : Frederick Ashton
Costumes : David Walker
Titania : Merle Park
Oberon : Michael Coleman
( Soloists of Royal Ballet, London )
The Taming of the Shrew
( Der Widerspenstigen Zaehmung )
Music : Kurt-Heinz Stolz
( from Domenico Scarlatti)

Choreography :
John Cranko
Costumes : Elizabeth Daldton
Kathrina : Lynn Seymour
Petruchio : David Wall
( Soloists of American Ballet Theater )
Ariel Music : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Andante from Piano Concerto c-major, KV 467

Choreography :
John Neumeier
Piano: Christoph Eschenbach
Zhandra Rodriguez
Zane Wilson
intermission
Hamlet-Connotations
( Der Fall Hamlet )
Music : Aaron Copland
"Variations for Piano",
"Connotations for Orchestra"
Choreography : John Neumeier
Piano : Maichael Huber
I  Aussagen
Hamlet, the Murdered Son : Max Midinet
Gertrud, the Murdered lady : Magali Messac
Ophelia, loved by Hamlet: Marianne Kruuse
Claudius, the murdered successer : Francois Klaus
II  Traum Tatbestand
Hamlet, Gertrud, Ophelia, Caludius and
the Ghost of Hamlet's Fatrher :
Roy Wierzbicki
The Moor's Pavane Music : Henry Purcell
Choreography : Jose Limon
Costumes : P. Lawrence
The Moor : Erik Bruhn
Desdemona : Cynthia Gregory
Jago : Ivan Nagy
Emilia : Sally Wilson
( Soloists of American Ballet Theater )
Romeo and Juliet
( Romeo und Julia )
Music : Serge Prokofief
Choreography : Kenneth Macmillan
Costumes : Nicholas Georgiades
Juliet : Lynn Seymour
Romeo : David Wall
Dance for the Close
( Tanz fuer den Schluss )
Music : Ralph Vaughn Williams
"Fantasia on Greensleeves"
Choreography : John Neumeier
Hamburg Ballet Ensemble