Valley of Shadows (ballet)
Valley of Shadows is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1983 for the Royal Ballet. The music is by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (extracts from Hamlet and Souvenir de Florence) and Bohuslav Martinů (Double Concerto, 1938). The story is loosely based on the novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani. The designer was Yolanda Sonnabend, who had first collaborated with him on 1963's Symphony.[1]
Original cast
The first performance was on 3 March 1983, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.[2]
- Alessandra Ferri
- Sandra Conley
- Julie Wood
- Derek Deane
- Guy Niblett
- David Wall
- Ashley Page
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See also
Notes
- "MacMillan and His Designers". KM.com. Archived from the original on 9 May 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- "Valley of Shadows", Royal Opera House Collections Online, retrieved 8 October 2014
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