Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)

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See also: NYCB repertory and NYCB 2008 Winter Repertory

Le Tombeau de Couperin is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's founder and ballet master, George Balanchine, to Maurice Ravel's 1919 music of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920. The premiere took place as part of City Ballet's Ravel Festival May 29, 1975, as the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.

[edit] Original Cast

  • Judith Fugate
  • Wilhelmina Frankfurt
  • Muriel Aasen
  • Susan Hendl
  • Marjorie Spohn
  • Delia Peters
  • Susan Pilarre
  • Carol Sumner
  • Hermes Condé
  • Richard Hoskinson
  • Richard Dryden,
  • Laurence Matthews


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