Who wrote the music for the ballet 'The Three-Cornered Hat'?
"The Three-Cornered Hat (novel) The Three-Cornered Hat () is a novel written by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in 1874. It was adapted into the ballet ""The Three-Cornered Hat"", by Manuel de Falla. The novel has a theatrical format and it has been compared with ""Don Quijote"", by Cervantes. The piece should be classified as a short story and it contains popular tradition with a linear plot line. ""The Three-Cornered Hat"" has been adapted into a musical comedy by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz called ""Revenge with Music"" (1934), and an opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai called ""La farsa amorosa"" (1933)"
"as Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and Jesús López-Cobos, and Leonard Bernstein has recorded the two suites from the ballet with the New York Philharmonic. The original pantomime ""El corregidor y la molinera"" has been recorded by Josep Pons and Orquestra del Teatro Lliure for Harmonia Mundi. The Paris Opera Ballet has issued a performance of the complete ballet on a DVD entitled ""Picasso and Dance"". The performance uses not only Massine's original choreography, but actual reproductions of Picasso's sets and costumes. The Three-Cornered Hat El sombrero de tres picos (""The Three-Cornered Hat"" or ""Le tricorne"") is a ballet choreographed by"
"circus performers trying to lure a reluctant audience into the tent before the show begins. The sets and costume designs were by Pablo Picasso, who designed large cubist structures for the dancers to wear. The score was composed by Erik Satie, who used sounds from an airplane's engine, pistol shots, and a ship's siren to accompany the music. ""Le Tricorn,"" better known as ""The Three Cornered Hat,"" premiered at the Alhambra Theater in London, on July 22nd, 1919. Manuel de Falla composed the score and Pablo Picasso designed the sets and costumes. Massine's collaborators, all Spanish, helped to make this"
"III of his unfinished opera, Sorochintsy yarmarka [The Fair at Sorochintsy]. He labored on it for years prior to his death in 1881. Mussorgsky himself wrote the opera's libretto, based on a Gogol story of the same name. Its ballet scenes thus expressed the 'night on bald mountain'. The music was re-orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov. The ballet ""Le train blue"" has been called a 'danced operetta'. Darius Milhaud composed the music, with the ballet libretto by Jean Cocteau, poet and filmmaker. The dancers' wardrobe were designed by 'Coco' Chanel; it included ""bathing costumes of the period"". The scenery was by sculptor"
"Triadisches Ballett Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30-31 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after formative performances dating back to 1916. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus. Inspired in part by Schoenberg's ""Pierrot Lunaire"" and his observations and experiences during the First World War, Oskar Schlemmer began to conceive of the human body as a new artistic medium. He saw ballet"
"Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55 (1884). The premiere took place on 3 December 1970 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery and costumes by Nicolas Benois. Balanchine set the final movement of Tschaikovsky's third orchestra suite in 1947 for Ballet Theatre under the title ""Theme and Variations"". He incorporated this choreography substantially unchanged into Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 as the fourth–and final–movement, which is sometimes called ""Tema"
"The Bolt (Shostakovich) The Bolt (), Op. 27 is a ballet music score written by Dmitri Shostakovich between 1930 and 1931 to a libretto by . The full-length ballet in three acts and seven scenes was choreographed by Fyodor Lopukhov and premiered on 8 April 1931 at the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad. The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory. The lazy Lyonka hates work and together with a local priest and anti-Soviet plotter he plans to sabotage the machinery by putting a bolt in it. Their plan is foiled"
"The Winter's Tale (ballet) The Winter's Tale is a ballet in three acts choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to a commissioned score by Joby Talbot. With scenery and costumes designed by Bob Crowley, lighting designed by Natasha Katz, and special stage effects designed by Daniel Brodie and Basil Twist, it was a co-production of the Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada and was first presented at the Royal Opera House, London, on 10 April 2014. Wheeldon's ballet is a dance version of William Shakespeare's play ""The Winter's Tale"" (1609–11), considered by scholars one of his ""problem plays,"" difficult to"
"Gustave III (Auber) Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué (""Gustavus III, or The Masked Ball"") is an ""opéra historique"" or grand opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe. It received its first performance at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra on 27 February 1833, with costumes designed by Eugène Lami and Paul Lormier, and sets by Léon Feuchère (Act I and Act V, scene 2), Jules Diéterle (Act II), Alfred (Act III), Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri (Act IV), René-Humanité Philastre and Charles-Antoine Cambon (Act V, scene 1). The opera was a major success for"
"con variazioni"", when he set the entire suite. Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55 (1884). The premiere took place on 3 December 1970 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery and costumes by Nicolas Benois. Balanchine set the final movement of Tschaikovsky's third orchestra suite in 1947 for Ballet Theatre under the title ""Theme and Variations"". He incorporated this choreography substantially unchanged into Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 as"
"Bluebeard (ballet) Barbe-bleue (en. ""Bluebeard"") (ru. «Синяя борода», ""Sinjaja boroda"") is a ""ballet-féerie"" in three acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Pyotr Schenk. The libretto was created by the author and dramatist Countess Lydia Pashkova from the fairy tale ""Bluebeard"" by Charles Perrault. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, the first performance being a benefit in honor of Marius Petipa's fiftieth anniversary in service to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. Marius Petipa created the ballet ""Bluebeard"" for his own benefit"
"Union Jack (ballet) Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca. 1890–1914, adapted by Hershy Kay. The premiere took place on 13 May 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, to honor British heritage in the United States its bicentennial with costumes by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, original lighting by Ronald Bates and current lighting by Mark Stanley. At the finale the ensemble spells out ""God Save the Queen"" in semaphore code and the Union Jack unfurls. Principal dancer Jock Soto"
"The Threepenny Opera The Threepenny Opera () is a ""play with music"" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ""The Beggar's Opera"", and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much, if any, Hauptmann might have contributed to the text, Brecht is usually listed as sole author. The work offers a Socialist critique of the capitalist world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. Songs from ""The Threepenny Opera"" have been widely covered and become standards,"
"The third dance uniquely adds two posthorns and five sleigh bells tuned to C, E, F, G, and A (in ascending order). As the name ""Three German Dances"" suggests, this set of dances includes three individual dances. Each dance changes in instrumentation; only the violins play in all three dances. Each dance varies in character because of this, and each includes various features: Three German Dances (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Three German Dances (Teutsche), K. 605, are a set of three dance pieces composed by Mozart in 1791. Most of Mozart's German Dances were written whilst he held the position"
"the music of Harry Partch. David Poole also created roles for her and, as artistic director of the company, cast her in many others. Besides classical ballet, Spira was a gifted Spanish dancer, appearing in Marina Keet's productions of ""The Three-Cornered Hat"" (1966), set to the famous score by Manuel de Falla, and ""Fiesta Manchega"" (1973), to music by Francisco Guerrero. In 1971, she danced the role of Salome in ""John the Baptist"", set by Veronica Paeper to music by Ernest Bloch, and in 1976, she danced the title role in ""Judith"", set by Alfred Rodrigues to music by Çetin"
"The Four Temperaments (ballet) The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith (the latter's eponymous 1940 music for string orchestra and piano) for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate forerunner of City Ballet. The work is divided into five parts, a theme and four variations, which reflect the temperaments of Galen's tradition. Balanchine downplayed the references to medieval ""humors"" that were believed to determine a person's temperament, saying the four personality types—melancholic, sanguinic, phlegmatic, and choleric—were merely points of departure for the"
"Parade (ballet) Parade is a ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed in 1916–17 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday, May 18, 1917 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with costumes and sets designed by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Léonide Massine (who danced), and the orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet. The idea of the ballet seems to have come from Jean Cocteau. He had heard Satie's ""Trois morceaux en forme de poire"" (""Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear"") in a concert and thought"
"Robin Hood (ballet) Robin Hood is a ballet created by choreographer and artistic director Paul Vasterling for the Nashville Ballet in 1998. The full-length ballet is in two acts and contains the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Although Korngold wrote music to the 1938 movie ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"", no music from the film is used in the ballet. Korngold’s early chamber music is used, as well as his Theme and Variations, Op. 42, and movements from both his Symphony in F-sharp major and Violin Concerto. The suite ""Much Ado About Nothing"" is used extensively in both acts and"
"ballets ""The Nutcracker"", ""Swan Lake"", and ""The Sleeping Beauty""; as well as Alexander Glazunov for his score for the ballet ""Raymonda"". In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as ""Le Talisman"" (1889), ""Le Réveil de Flore"" (1894) and ""Les Millions d'Arlequin"" (1900). Cesare Pugni wrote extensively for the harp as well—his ballet ""Éoline, ou La Dryade"" included music written for harp to accompany the ballerina's numerous variations and enhance the atmosphere of the ballet's many fantastical scenes. Ludwig Minkus was celebrated for his harp cadenzas, most notably the ""Variation de la Reine"
"concludes the ballet. Robin Hood (ballet) Robin Hood is a ballet created by choreographer and artistic director Paul Vasterling for the Nashville Ballet in 1998. The full-length ballet is in two acts and contains the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Although Korngold wrote music to the 1938 movie ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"", no music from the film is used in the ballet. Korngold’s early chamber music is used, as well as his Theme and Variations, Op. 42, and movements from both his Symphony in F-sharp major and Violin Concerto. The suite ""Much Ado About Nothing"" is used extensively in"
"Winter Dreams (ballet) Winter Dreams is a one-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to piano pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky selected and arranged by Philip Gammon and traditional Russian music selected and arranged for guitar and mandolin ensemble by Thomas Hartman. With scenery and costumes designed by Peer Farmer and lighting designed by Clive Thomas, it was first presented by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, London, on 7 February 1991. Macmillan's ballet was inspired by Anton Chekhov's play ""Three Sisters"" (1900), sometimes named as one of his four best plays, along with ""The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull,"""
"Le Corsaire Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the poem ""The Corsair"" by Lord Byron. Originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Adolphe Adam, it was first presented by the ballet of the Théâtre Impérial de l’Opéra in Paris on 23 January 1856. All modern productions of ""Le Corsaire"" are derived from the revivals staged by the Ballet Master Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg throughout the mid to late 19th century. The ballet has many celebrated passages"
"Symphony in Three Movements The Symphony in Three Movements is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky wrote the symphony from 1942–45 on commission by the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York. It was premièred by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Stravinsky on January 24, 1946. The Symphony in Three Movements is considered as Stravinsky's first major composition after emigrating to the United States. It uses material written by Stravinsky for aborted film projects. In 1943, Stravinsky had begun work on rescoring his ballet ""The Rite of Spring."" Although the project was left incomplete, his revisit to"
"Atelier GmbH, with live-action dancers and new music by Erich Ferstl. Triadisches Ballett Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30-31 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after formative performances dating back to 1916. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus. Inspired in part by Schoenberg's ""Pierrot Lunaire"" and his observations and experiences during the First World War, Oskar Schlemmer began to conceive of"
"Das Dreimäderlhaus Das Dreimäderlhaus (""House of the Three Girls""), adapted into English-language versions as Blossom Time and Lilac Time, is a Viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert, rearranged by Hungarian Heinrich Berté (1857–1924), and a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . The work gives a fictionalized account of Schubert's romantic life, and the story was adapted from the 1912 novel ""Schwammerl"" by Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952). Originally the score was mostly Berté, with just one piece of Schubert's (""Ungeduld"" from ""Die schöne Müllerin""), but the producers required Berté to discard his score and create a pasticcio of"
"be read to be a creation story. Notes Sources The Four Temperaments (ballet) The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith (the latter's eponymous 1940 music for string orchestra and piano) for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate forerunner of City Ballet. The work is divided into five parts, a theme and four variations, which reflect the temperaments of Galen's tradition. Balanchine downplayed the references to medieval ""humors"" that were believed to determine a person's temperament, saying the four personality types—melancholic, sanguinic,"
"Billy the Kid (ballet) Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland on commission from Lincoln Kirstein. It was choreographed by Eugene Loring for Ballet Caravan. Along with ""Rodeo"" and ""Appalachian Spring"", it is one of Copland's most popular and widely performed pieces. It is most famous for its incorporation of several cowboy tunes and American folk songs and, although built around the figure and the exploits of Billy the Kid, is not so much a biography of a notorious but peculiarly appealing desperado as it is a perception of the ""Wild West"", in"
"The Unanswered Question (ballet) The Unanswered Question: Some Intimations of the American Composer Charles Ives is a ballet made by Eliot Feld to Charles Ives' ""The Unanswered Question"", ""Calcium Light Night"", ""Fugue in Four Keys, Mists"", ""From the Housatonic at Stockbridge"", Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin (""In the Barn""), ""Remembrance"" and ""An Old Song Deranged"". The premiere took place April 30, 1988, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, as part of New York City Ballet's American Music Festival with lighting by the Feld Ballet's Allen Lee Hughes and Willa Kim's costumes. Other works to the music"
"the Russian composer Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914) to write the music. There is no evidence, however, despite the much-repeated story that Lyadov was slow to start composing the work, that he ever accepted the commission to begin with. There is evidence to suggest that Nikolai Tcherepnin had previously started composing music for the ballet—music which became ""The Enchanted Kingdom""—but that Tcherepnin, for reasons unexplained, withdrew from the project after completing only one scene. Diaghilev eventually transferred the commission to the 28-year-old Stravinsky. The ballet was premiered by the Ballets Russes at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 25 June 1910, conducted"
"Jeu de cartes (Balanchine) Jeu de cartes (Card Game) is a ballet in three ""deals"" by Igor Stravinsky composed in 1936–37, with libretto by the composer in collaboration with M. Malaieff (a friend of Stravinsky's eldest son ) and choreography by George Balanchine. The ballet was premiered by the American Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 27 April 1937, with the composer conducting. The European premier was on 13 October 1937 at the Dresden Staatsoper. The New York City Ballet premiere took place on 15 February 1951 under the title ""The Card Game"" at City Center"
"Un ballo in maschera Un ballo in maschera ""(A Masked Ball)"" is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text by Antonio Somma was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, ""Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué"". The plot concerns the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden who was killed as the result of a political conspiracy against him. He was shot while attending a masked ball and died of his wounds thirteen days later. It was to take over two years between the time of the commission from"
"included an excerpt from ""Union Jack"" in his farewell performance in June 2005. The music includes Scottish military tattoos and folk-dance forms; a music-hall pas de deux for the costermonger Pearly King and Queen; hornpipes, sea songs, work chants and jigs. Union Jack (ballet) Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca. 1890–1914, adapted by Hershy Kay. The premiere took place on 13 May 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, to honor British heritage in the United States"
"Picasso and the Ballets Russes Pablo Picasso and the Ballets Russes collaborated on several productions. Pablo Picasso's Cubist sets and costumes were used by Sergei Diaghilev in the Ballets Russes's ""Parade"" (1917, choreography: Léonide Massine), ""Le Tricorne"" (""The Three-Cornered Hat"") (1919, choreography: Massine), ""Pulcinella"" (1920, choreographer: Massine), and ""Cuadro Flamenco"" (1921, choreography: Spanish folk dancers). Picasso also drew a sketch with pen on paper of ""La Boutique fantasque"" (""La course""), (1919, choreography: Massine). and designed the drop curtain for ""Le Train Bleu"" (1924, choreography: Bronislava Nijinska), based on his painting, ""Two Women Running on the Beach"" (""The Race""), 1922. The"