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The Bartered Bride (Opera)
8th February 1978, Scottish Opera Theatre Royal, Glasgow
COMPOSER: Bedrich Smetana
LIBRETTIST: Karel Sabina
TRANSLATION: Leonard Hancock /
David Pountney
DECOR: Sue Blane
COSTUMES: Maria Bjornson
DIRECTOR: David Pountney
CASTING: Peter Bodenham, Una Buchanan,
Alien Cathcart, Claire Livingstone, William McCue, Donald Maxwell,
Alexander Oliver, Linda Ormiston, Vicor Ponce, Sylvia Ponce, Gaetano
Rea, Maria Slorach, Norman White
DANCERS: Keith Barlow, Roger Bennet,
Elaine Bryce, Dinah Carriejones, Philip Crowther, Patricia Goodburn,
Virginia Hartley, Jim Hastie, Harry Murray, Judith Osborne, Victoria
Wynn
Five Rückert Songs
26th September 1978, The Scottish Ballet. Ballet for
Scotland Tour by the 'East' Group: Town Hall Falkirk; 'West' Group:
27th September 1978. Denny Civic Theatre, Dumbarton;
1st March 1980, The Scottish Ballet. Theatre Royal, Glasgow.
A woman, disenchanted with the glamorous but passing pleasures
of her life, finds within herself an inner peace.
COMPOSER: Gustav Mahler arranged
by Bramwell Tovey (to poems by Friedrich Rückert),
DESIGNER: Peter Darrell
CASTING: 'East'
Group - Sally Collard-Gentle, Peter Mallek with Kenneth
Burke, William Bowen, Fiona Dear, Vincent Hantam, Michael Harper,
Christopher Long, Linda Packer, Wendy Roe, Nigel Spencer
'West' Group - Eleanor Moore,
Paul Tyers with Kit Lethby, Timothy Flynn, Anna McCartney, Judy
Mohekey, Elizabeth Peden, Peter Royston, Robert Ryan, Kenneth
Saunders, Patrick Wood
The Scottish Ballet, 1st March 1980:
GUEST ARTIST: Janet Baker,
DANCERS: Elaine McDonald, Paul
Tyers with Kit Lethby, Timothy Flynn, Anna McCartney, Judy Mohekey,
Elizabeth Peden, Peter Royston, Robert Ryan, Kenneth Saunders,
Patrick Wood
Picnic
12th October 1978, Scottish Ballet Workshop for schools
programme Wowza!; 21st May 1987, The Scottish Ballet.
Part of the Perth Festival of Arts
During an outing a young girl disappears, but the picnic continues.
COMPOSER: Francis Poulenc
DESIGNER: Bruno Santini
CASTING: Roger Bennet, Christopher
Blagdon, Hilary Cark, Susan Cooper, Erica Knighton (Scottish Ballet
Workshop);
Paul Bayes-Kitcher, Wendy Dawson, Fiona Dear, Karl Burnett, Catherine
Evers (The Scottish Ballet)
Economy in Straitjacket but Still Room
for Movement
1978 Scottish Ballet Workshop; 21st May 1987 The Scottish
Ballet - reworked version as part of the Perth Festival of Arts
This challenging ballet takes its title from a financial headline
in The Times. A provocative and satirical piece.
COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
(Preludes and Fugues from The Welltempered Clavier)
DESIGNERS: Peter Darrell and Terry
Jacobs (Scottish Ballet Workshop); Peter Darrell and Caro Harkness
(The Scottish Ballet)
CASTING: Sue Weston with Christopher
Blagdon, Susan Cooper, Serge Julian, Greta Mendez, (Scottish Ballet
Workshop);
Elaine McDonald with Tristan Borrer, Christopher Gillard, Judy
Mohekey, Eleanor Moore (The Scottish Ballet)
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