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Works of Peter Darrell - 1965

Home

3rd February 1965, Western Theatre Ballet Empire Theatre, Sunderland

Part of North Eastern Festival of the Arts, Home was specially created for Nadia Nerina.

COMPOSER: Béla Bartók (String Quartet No. 5)
DESIGNER: Peter Cazalet
COMMISSIONED SCENARIO: John Mortimer
GUEST ARTIST: Nadia Nerina
CASTING: Sean Bartley, Peter Cazalet, Bronwen Curry, Peter Butler, Leo Guerard, Suzanne Hywel, Nikolai Lusignan, Elaine McDonald, Simon Mottram, Deirdre O'Donohoe, Donna-Day Washington, Barrie Wilkinson

A Man Like Orpheus

24th May 1965
Commissioned work for BBC Television

Said to be as up to date as news reporting, and as subjective as poetry.

COMPOSER: Raymond Leppard (commissioned score)
SCENARIO: John Hopkins and Peter Darrell
DESIGNER: Tony Abbott
CASTING: Scan Bartley, Peter Cazalet, Suzanne Hywel and dancers of Western Theatre Ballet

Orfeo (Opera)

6th July 1965, Arts Theatre, Cambridge

Western Theatre Ballet's first joint production with Sadler's Wells New Opera Company

COMPOSER: Claudio Monteverdi, realised by Raymond Leppard
LIBRETTO: Alessandro Striggio
DESIGNER: Yolanda Sonnabend
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
DIRECTOR: Frank Hauser
LIGHTING: Charles Bristow
CASTING: James Conrad, Stafford Dean, Mary Gilmore, Patricia Kern, John Wakefield and dancers of Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet

Pigesco (Girl's Shoes)

24th September 1965.

Commissioned work for Danish Television

SCENARIO: Finn Metheling
DIRECTOR: Annet Wolf