mart Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Jeanne D'Arc? can't think of another...... Jeanne D'Arc? can't think of another...... Who choreographed that? A clue both were Lepidopteras !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 Re Jeanne d'arc - I couldn't find who choreographed it but it was danced by Eleonora Vlasova and Yuri Grigoriev. I know Anna Pavlova danced a solo "Papillons" - but i don't know if she went up in flames! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Re Jeanne d'arc - I couldn't find who choreographed it but it was danced by Eleonora Vlasova and Yuri Grigoriev. I know Anna Pavlova danced a solo "Papillons" - but i don't know if she went up in flames! You are on the right track ,one is a three act the other one act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Is it the aptly named "Fiammetta" by Saint-Léon? But I think she IS a flame, so how could she go up in flames? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 It was Papillon and Piege de lumiere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Name three ballets in which a lead character plays a musical instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew (Lucentio amongst others) Fille Mal Gardee (Alain - although of course he doesn't play it well) Apollo Orpheus (Balanchine) I know you said 3 but I'm not sure if I'm on the right lines so thought I would try a few! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Well, that's interesting, Janet! Those you mentioned surely do count - but I thought of three other ones. We are learning a lot about these different aspects of ballet..... so......there are still at least three more out there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Oh wait - I made a mistake Romeo and Juliet was one of the ballets I had in mind.....so that leaves two more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Month in the Country .... the daughter plays the piano .... That springs to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 (edited) Daphnis and Cloe ..... Pan plays the pipes ... but wouldn't exactly call him a 'major' (dancing) character ... but is certainly catalytic. Edited November 24, 2013 by Meunier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Of course .... Elgar variations .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Still two more that I'm thinking of..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MargaretN7 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 (edited) Don Quixote (both Basil and Kitri who, in the latest RB version anyway, 'borrowed' Basil's guitar) And do Kitri's castanets count? And Sylvia, if those little bells in Act 2 count as a musical instrument. Edited November 24, 2013 by MargaretN7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 The pianist in The Lesson by Fleming Flindt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 Yes, Don Q was one of them.....but still....one more.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Hobson's Choice (David Bintley) - Beenstock "plays" the piano before Prosser takes over and plays Lily of Laguna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 Good one - but one more - very (at first) infamous and then famous ballet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MargaretN7 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 That infamous faun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 Aha! We have a winner! Actually a number of winners - !! I find it fascinating to think about these details. Someone pose the next brain twister....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 an easy one - which ballet could be renamed 'five funerals and a wedding'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Got to be Romeo and Juliet, hasn't it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Got to be Romeo and Juliet, hasn't it? Indeed!! :-) After R&J 'get wed' - its carnage! and that's not including the townsfolk swept up in the brawl! Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo and finally Juliet. Actually, could be six funerals if Juliet gets a second one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I did hesitate, because I suppose it would be 6 funerals, but then I thought as Juliet has already had her funeral, she probably wouldn't get another one. I suppose I have got to think of a question now, have I? (dashes off to look up obscure fact about ballet no one has ever heard of.....) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 How about a Royal Ballerina who has danced four Shakespeare roles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Would it be Lynn Seymour??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Leanne Benjamin: The Dream; R&J; Taming of the Shrew plus one other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Not Leanne, who has probably danced those three. There is one more role Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 How about a Royal Ballerina who has danced four Shakespeare roles Lesley Collier: The Tempest (Miranda) Taming of the Shrew(Kate) The Dream(Titania) and Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Spot on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 This thread certainly makes for fascinating reading!! We'll all be able to go on Mastermind soon at this rate!! Sorry to go back but still another ballet where necklaces are important apart from ones already mentioned (and learned a new one in Ondine) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimi66 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Giselle came to my mind but This thread certainly makes for fascinating reading!! We'll all be able to go on Mastermind soon at this rate!!Sorry to go back but still another ballet where necklaces are important apart from ones already mentioned (and learned a new one in Ondine) Ah! Marguerite and Armand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 Was La Bayadere mentioned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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