Dawn Sutton in 'Five Rückert Songs' Photograph by Alan Crumlish
 
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Works of Peter Darrell - 1974

Apsaras

29th January 1974, Irish National Ballet Opera House, Cork

A romantic pas de deux with oriental embellishments.

COMPOSER: Jules Massenet (from Le Roi de Lahore)
DESIGNER: Patrick Murray
JEWELLERY: Alun Rhys-Jones
CASTING: Helen Starr, Richard Rowe

Caritas

31st January 1974, The Scottish Ballet Movable Workshop. Dunfermline College of Education, Dunfermline

An exploration of love and lust

COMPOSER: Cat Stevens
DESIGNER: Joyce Mellish
CASTING: Peter Allan, Gary Cobb, Lynda Colston, Fionna McPhee

Grand Pas Gitane

28th May 1974, Irish National Ballet. Abbey Theatre, Dublin; 16th August 1974, Scottish Theatre Ballet, Gala Performance, Ochtertyre Theatre, Crieff

A showpiece of classical bravura in which flamboyance is taken to the brink of satire.

COMPOSERS: Camille Saint-Saëns and Romualdo Marenko
DESIGNER: Patrick Murray (Irish National Ballet); Gordon Garforth (Scottish Theatre Ballet)
CASTING: Anna Donovan, Charles Flanders (Irish National Ballet); Marian St Claire, Michael Beare (Scottish Theatre Ballet)

Alceste (Opera)

19th August 1974, Scottish Opera King's Theatre, Edinburgh Part of the Edinburgh International Festival

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald von Gluck
DESIGNER: John Stoddart
DIRECTOR: Anthony Besch
LIGHTING: Charles Bristow
CASTING: Stacey Almond, Enid Bannatyne, Peter van der Bilt, Gerald Blakely, Delme Bryn-Jones, Richard Evans, David Fieldsend, Arthur Jackson, Jamie Neill, Jason Smith, Robert Tear, Julia Varady, Norman White
DANCERS: Gillian Bird, Brian Burn, James Cowie, Gwendoline Edmonds, Richard Holland, Sam McManus, Georgette Marcel, Eleanor Moore, Jeanette Newell, Keri Stewart, Mark Storey

Monologue

20th August 1974, The Scottish Ballet Nework 74 at STV's Gateway Studios, Edinburgh

This performance did not take place due to cast injuries

COMPOSER: Darius Milhaud (Elegy for Cello and Piano)
DESIGNER: Peter Docherty
CASTING: Dianne Richards, Paul Tyers

Aimee

1974, New London Ballet

Commissioned work for Granada Television

COMPOSER: Leoš Jánaček
DESIGNER: Peter Docherty