Le jeune homme et la mort
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Le Jeune Homme et La Mort was made in 1946 by Roland Petit to Bach's Passacaglia in C minor (minus the fugue) and a one act libretto by Jean Cocteau. It tells the story of a Young Man driven to suicide by his faithless lover.
Petit is purported to have made Le Jeune Homme et La Mort on his wife Zizi Jeanmaire, but it is reliably reported to have been danced at its premiere June 25 at the Ballets des Champs-Elysées by Jean Babilée and Nathalie Philippart.
Sets were by Georges Wakhevitch and costumes variously reported as being by Karinska or Cocteau.
Petit staged it at American Ballet Theatre in 1951, where it was revived by Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1975; in the 1985 movie "White Nights" Petit arranged Le Jeune Homme et la Mort for Baryshnikov.
It has been in the repertoire of the Paris Opera Ballet since 1990 and was danced at their premiere by Kader Belarbi.
It has also been danced by the Ballet National de Marseilles (1984), the Berlin Opera Ballet (1985) and the Boston Ballet (1998).
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[edit] Original cast
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[edit] Revivals
[edit] La Scala Ballet, Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, March 2006
[edit] Sadler's Wells, November 2006
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[edit] External links
- March 2006 review by Susy in Ballet.co Magazine
- November 30, 2006, review by Ruth Leon for Bloomberg News
- November 29, 2006, review by John Percival in The Stage
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