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Apuleius's version was far too ribald and overtly sexual for the 17th century stage, or even for the 17th century reader, and the story had been adapted to the morals of the time on several occasions. There were two ballets on the subject: the Ballet de la reine tiré de la fable de Psyché of 1619 and Benserade's Ballet de Psyché of 1656.
Part of unperformed collaborative ballet-opera-spectacle by Cui (Act 1), Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (Acts 2 and 3), and Borodin (Act 4), with ballet music by Minkus. Borodin used material from his unfinished Prince Igor as the basis for Act 4. Finale orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov as a concert piece (1892)
Gedeonov revised his conception as an opera-ballet, with a libretto by Viktor Krïlov, and in 1872 proposed through Vladimir Stasov a collaborative effort by four members of The Mighty Handful—César Cui, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, and Aleksandr Borodin—who were to write music for the sung portions of the libretto and ...
Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Diane Zeigler "The Legend of Enoch Arden" Alfred Lord Tennyson [29] "Let it Show" The Thing That Feels: Hannah Fury: Wicked: Gregory Maguire [41] "Listen (The Silences)" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two: Michelle Bloom: Raids on the Unspeakable: Thomas Merton [51] "Lolita" The Black Magic Show ...
Three songs in each set were written by his sister Fanny Mendelssohn. [3] While each song was the product of one composer alone, as sets, they were collaborations. In 1840, around the time of their marriage, Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann published a set of 12 songs called Gedichte aus Liebesfruhling (Love's Spring). Clara wrote numbers 2 ...
With the help of novelist Laura Esquivel, Tony Award–winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon cooks up a cinematic ballet for American Ballet Theatre’s summer season at the Met.
This list may not reflect recent changes. Classical music written in collaboration; C. Carnaval (ballet) D. ... (ballet) H. Hexaméron (musical composition) ...
American Ballet Theatre presents the North American premiere of the full-length story ballet based on Laura Esquivel's novel "Like Water for Chocolate."