Dawn Sutton in 'Five Rückert Songs' Photograph by Alan Crumlish
 
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Works of Peter Darrell - 1975

Biedermeier Dances

January 1975, Irish National Ballet Opera House, Cork

COMPOSERS: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Joseph Palmer
DESIGNER: Patrick Murray
CASTING: Jonathan Aitken, Wendy Albrow, Terry John Bates, Monica Johanneson, Kay McLoughlin, Stephanie Murphy

O Caritas

3rd February 1975, The Scottish Ballet. Ballet for Scotland Tour, Duns; 12th May 1975, The Scottish Ballet, Kings Theatre, Glasgow (Gala); 1977/78 West Australian Ballet; 1993 NAPAC, Durban

Developed from Caritas first performed by The Scottish Ballet Movable Workshop in 1974, this moving ballet expresses the senselessness of violence in human affairs.

MUSIC AND LYRICS: Andrea Toumazi, Jeremy Taylor, Cat Stevens
DESIGNERS: Peter Darrell and Peter Cazalet
PHOTOGRAPHY: George Wilkie
CASTING: Robin Haig, Paul Tyers with Georgette Marcel, Wayne Stewarte (Ballet for Scotland); Robin Haig, Paul Tyers with Beryl Hicks, Kit Lethby (The Scottish Ballet Gala)

Songs Without Words

15th June 1975, Scottish Ballet Scholars. Couper Institute, Glasgow; 1975 Voyage (Songs without Words) The Scottish Ballet

A series of dances with an emotional undertone devised to show the potential of the more advanced students. It was later performed by The Scottish Ballet with Guest Artist Anna-Mane Holmes.

COMPOSER: Felix Mendelssohn
PIANIST: Donald Runnicles
CASTING: Paul Tyers with Scottish Ballet Scholars Deborah Alison, Jane Blair, Elizabeth Cameron, Deborah Faessler, Natasha Gerson, Elizabeth Harrower, Louise Hellewell, Ann-Marie Lochrie, Marie McElhinney, Rhona McNam, Linda Martin, Judith Osborne, Elizabeth Peden

The Scarlet Pastorale

21st October 1975, The Scottish Ballet King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Based on an idea from Aubrey Beardsley's Yellow Book, Darrell wrote a remarkable study in decadence. Originally created for Margot Fonteyn in an unusual double role showing her image of purity as a facade for a wicked nature beneath.

COMPOSER: Frank Martin (Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments)
DESIGNER: Philip Prowse
GUEST ARTISTS: Margot Fonteyn, Augustus van Heerden
CASTING: Anne Allan, Linda Anning, Roy Campbell-Moore, James Cowie, Gavin Dorrian, Vincent Hantam, Richard Holland, Henry Man, Christopher Mercer, Eleanor Moore, Ruth Prior, Patricia Rianne, Yuji Sato, Dianne Storer, Paul Tyers