Rhapsody

Rhapsody
Alina Cojocaru and Steven McRae
© ROH/ Tristram Kenton

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Rhapsody (1980)


Abbreviations:
M Music by
S Scenery by
C Costumes by
D Danced by
FP First performance
NP New production
R Reproduced by
ST Staging (indicates that the ballet was produced in substantially its original form)



M Sergei Rachmaninov (Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, opus 43, 1934)
S Frederick Ashton
C William Chappell

D Lesley Collier, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bryony Brind, Angela Cox, Gillian Kingsley, Karen Paisey, Genesia Rosato, Gail Taphouse, Michael Batchelor, Stephen Beagley, Antony Dowson, Ross MacGibbon, Ashley Page, Andrew Ward
FP Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 4 August 1980

NP Royal Ballet; SC Patrick Caulfield
D Viviana Durante, Tetsuya Kumakawa
FP Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 27 April 1995

ST Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris; R Grant Coyle
D Carole Arbo, Manuel Legris
FP Palais Garnier, 25 October 1996

NP Royal Ballet; R Christopher Carr, Grant Coyle; SC Jessica Curtis
D Leanne Benjamin, Carlos Acosta
FP Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 11 March 2005