Walpurgisnacht Ballet
Walpurgisnacht Ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine for a 1975 production of Gounod's 1859 Faust at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris, including Gounod's additional ballet music from 1869. The New York City Ballet premiere was the first presentation of the dance as an independent work, on Thursday, 15 May 1980 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. Balanchine had previously made dances for productions of Faust at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, danced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; in 1935 for the Metropolitan Opera; and 1945 for the Opera Nacional, Mexico City.
Walpurgisnacht is found at the beginning of the last act of Faust. Mephistopheles shows Faust the folk celebration before May Day, when the souls of the dead are released briefly to wander as they will. The ballet does not directly depict the Walpurgis Night but builds on a sense of joyful revelry.
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- Walpurgisnacht Ballet on the Balanchine Trust website
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- A la Françaix
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Agon
- Allegro Brillante
- Apollo
- Le baiser de la fée
- Le Bal
- Ballade
- Ballo della Regina
- Bayou
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
- Bourrée fantasque
- Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
- Bugaku
- Chaconne
- Le chant du rossignol
- Circus Polka
- Clarinade
- Concertino
- Concerto Barocco
- Coppélia
- Cortège Hongrois
- Divertimento Brillante
- Divertimento from "Le Baiser De La Fée"
- Divertimento No. 15
- Don Quixote
- Donizetti Variations
- Duo Concertant
- Élégie
- L'enfant et les sortilèges
- Episodes
- Etude for Piano
- The Firebird
- The Four Temperaments
- Garland Dance
- Gounod Symphony
- Haieff Divertimento
- Harlequinade
- Hungarian Gypsy Airs
- Ivesiana
- Jeu de cartes
- Jewels
- Kammermusik No. 2
- Liebeslieder Walzer
- Meditation
- Metamorphoses
- Metastaseis and Pithoprakta
- Monumentum pro Gesualdo
- Movements for Piano and Orchestra
- Mozartiana
- Noah and the Flood
- The Nutcracker
- Orpheus
- Pas de Dix
- Pas de Trois (Glinka)
- Pas de Trois (Minkus)
- Pavane
- Prodigal Son
- Pulcinella
- Ragtime I
- Ragtime II
- Raymonda Variations
- Requiem Canticles
- Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze
- Scherzo à la Russe
- Scotch Symphony
- Serenade
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
- La Sonnambula
- Sonatine
- La source
- Square Dance
- Stars and Stripes
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Stravinsky Violin Concerto
- Swan Lake
- Sylvia Pas de Deux
- Symphonie Concertante
- Symphony in C
- Symphony in Three Movements
- Tango
- Tarantella
- Theme and Variations
- Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
- Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
- Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
- Tzigane
- Union Jack
- La Valse
- Valse-Fantaisie
- Variations
- Variations for Orchestra
- Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir
- Vienna Waltzes
- Walpurgisnacht Ballet
- Western Symphony
- Who Cares?
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