List of ballets by George Balanchine
This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master.
Chronological
[edit]Alphabetical
[edit]By company
[edit]For Ballets Russes
[edit]- Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) (1925)
- Jack in the Box (1926)
- Pastorale (1926)
- Barabau (1926)
- La Chatte (1927)
- Le Triomphe de Neptune (1927)
- Apollo (1928)
- The Prodigal Son (1929)
- Le Bal (1929)
For Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo
[edit]- Cotillon (1932)
- Concurrence (1932)
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1932 and 1944)
- Balustrade (1941)
- Danses concertantes (1944 and 1972)
- Song of Norway (1944)
- Pas de Deux (Grand adagio) (1945)
- La Sonnambula (1946)
- The Night Shadow (1946)
- Raymonda (1946)
For Les Ballets 1933
[edit]- The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
- Errante (1933)
- Les Songes (1933)
- Fastes (1933)
For the American Ballet
[edit]- Alma Mater (1934)
- Les Songes (Dreams) (1934)
- Mozartiana (1934)
- Serenade (1935)
- Errante (1935)
- Reminiscence (1935)
- Jeu de cartes (variously, Card Game or The Card Party) (1937)
- Le Baiser de la Fée (originally titled The Fairy's Kiss) (1937)
For Broadway
[edit]- Ziegfeld Follies of 1936
- Words without Music: A Surrealist Ballet, a production number for the singing and dancing ensemble
- Night Flight, a solo for Harriet Hoctor
- 5 A.M., a number for Josephine Baker and male dancers
- On Your Toes (1936), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart; starring Tamara Geva and Ray Bolger. This dramatic ballet served as the climax of this musical production and has subsequently been presented as a stand-alone piece; however, several of the sung numbers in the show featured dance routines as well, notably the title number.
- Princess Zenobia Ballet (1936)
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1936).
- Babes in Arms (1937), by Rodgers and Hart
- I Married an Angel (1938), by Rodgers and Hart; starring Vera Zorina
- The Boys from Syracuse (1938), by Rodgers and Hart
- Great Lady (1938), music by Frederick Loewe
- Keep Off the Grass (1940), a musical revue
- Louisiana Purchase (1940), music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; with William Gaxton and Vera Zorina
- Cabin in the Sky (1940), music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John Latouche; starring Ethel Waters and Katherine Dunham, who collaborated with Balanchine on the choreography
- The Lady Comes Across (1942), by Duke and Latouche; a notable flop
- Rosalinda (1942), an operetta with music by Johann Strauss
- The Merry Widow (1943), an operetta with music by Franz Lehár
- What's Up? (1943), lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
- Dream with Music (1944), a musical fantasy starring Vera Zorina
- Song of Norway (1944), an operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg; Balanchine's most successful Broadway show
- Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston (1945), another flop
- The Chocolate Soldier (1947), an operetta with music by Oscar Straus
- Where's Charley? lyrics and music by Frank Loesser, a long-running show starring Ray Bolger
- Courtin' Time (1951), music and lyrics by Don Walker and Jack Lawrence
- House of Flowers (1954), music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen; starring Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, and Juanita Hall; Balanchine's choreography was rearranged by Herbert Ross before the Broadway opening
For Hollywood
[edit]- The Goldwyn Follies (1938), with Vera Zorina and William Dollar as principal dancers
- "Romeo and Juliet," with ballet dancers as the Capulets and tap dancers as the Montagues
- "Water Nymph Ballet," in which Zorina rose from the depths of a pool
- On Your Toes (1939), the film version of the Broadway show, starring Vera Zorina and Eddie Albert
- I Was an Adventuress (1940), starring Vera Zorina
- Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), a wartime morale booster for military troops
- "That Old Black Magic," sung by Johnny Johnston, danced by Vera Zorina
- Follow the Boys (1944), with Vera Zorina and George Raft
For American Ballet Caravan
[edit]- Ballet Imperial (1941; renamed Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1973)
- Concerto Barocco (1941)
For the Ballet del Teatro de Colón
[edit]- Mozart Violin Concerto (1942)
For Ballet Theatre
[edit]- Waltz Academy (1944)
- Theme and Variations (1947)
For Ballet Society
[edit]- The Four Temperaments (1946)
- L'enfant et Les Sortilèges (The Spellbound Child) (1946)[1]
- Haieff Divertimento (1947)
- Symphonie Concertante (1947)
- Orpheus (1948)
For the Paris Opera Ballet
[edit]- Palais de Cristal (1947, in 1948 restaged in Symphony in C)
For Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas
[edit]- Pas de Trois Classique (also known as Minkus Pas de Trois) (1948)
For New York City Ballet
[edit]- La Sonnambula (1946)
- Bourrée Fantasque (1949)
- The Firebird (1959; later revised with Jerome Robbins)
- Sylvia Pas De Deux (1950)
- Swan Lake (after Lev Ivanov) (1951)
- La Valse (1951)
- Harlequinade Pas De Deux (1952)
- Metamorphoses (1952)
- Caracole (1952)
- Scotch Symphony (1952)
- Valse Fantaisie (1953/1967)
- The Nutcracker (1954)
- Ivesiana (1954)
- Western Symphony (1954)
- Glinka Pas De Trois (1955)
- Pas De Dix (1955)
- Divertimento No. 15 (1956)
- Allegro Brillante (1956)
- Agon (1957)
- Square Dance (1957)
- Gounod Symphony (1958)
- Stars and Stripes (a ballet in five "campaigns") (1958)
- Episodes (1959)
- Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (1960)
- Monumentum pro Gesualdo (1960)
- Donizetti Variations (1960)
- Liebeslieder Walzer (1960)
- Raymonda Variations (1961)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962)
- Bugaku (1963)
- Meditation (1963)
- Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1963)
- Harlequinade (1965)
- Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet (1966)
- Jewels (1967)
- La Source (1968)
- Who Cares? (1970)
- Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 (1970)
- Stravinsky Festival (1972)
- Pulcinella (with Jerome Robbins)
- Stravinsky Violin Concerto
- Symphony in Three Movements
- Duo Concertant
- Lost Sonata
- Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la fée"
- Choral Variations on Bach's "Vom Himmel Hoch"
- Danses Concertantes
- Scherzo Á La Russe
- Cortège Hongrois (1973)
- Coppélia (1974)
- Variations pour une porte et un soupir (1974)
- Ravel Festival (1975)
- Sonatine
- Tzigane
- Le tombeau de Couperin
- Pavane
- Shéhérazade
- Gaspard de la Nuit
- Rapsodie Espagnole
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1975)
- Chaconne (1976)
- Union Jack (1976)
- Vienna Waltzes (1977)
- Ballo della Regina (1978)
- Kammermusik No. 2 (1978)
- Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze (1980)
- Walpurgisnacht Ballet (1980)
- Tschaikovsky Festival (1981)
- Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
- Mozartiana
- Stravinsky Centennial Celebration (1982)
- Élégie
For New York City Opera
[edit]- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1979)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Balanchine had created ballet sequences for Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges with singers of the Monte Carlo Opera and dancers from the Ballets Russes for the 1925 Monte Carlo premiere; this is not however listed as a Ballets Russes production.
NYC Ballet Premiere May 15, 1975, New York State Theater, Ravel Festival, as L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. https://www.nycballet.com/ballets/s/the-spellbound-child.aspx
External links
[edit]- List of ballets on the website of the Balanchine Trust