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Scene from Les Sylphides. The following is a list of ballets with entries in English Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by ballet title, with the name of the composer (or the composer whose music the ballet is set to) and the year of the first performance.
Brian Shaw (dancer) Moira Shearer. Jeremy Sheffield. Antoinette Sibley. Zoltán Solymosi. Ben Stevenson (dancer) Beatriz Stix-Brunell.
The Royal Ballet is one of the few ballet companies in the world to have employed four dancers considered to be prima ballerina assoluta, including three who studied at the Royal Ballet School. The first was Alicia Markova who, having been mentored by Ninette de Valois as a member of Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , was invited to become one ...
Matthew Ball (dancer) Leanne Benjamin. Alexander Bennett (dancer) Deanne Bergsma. Svetlana Beriosova. David Blair (dancer) Federico Bonelli. William Bracewell. Donald Britton.
The Cellist. The Cellist is a one-act ballet about British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, choreographed by Cathy Marston, with the scenario devised by Marston and Edward Kemp. The music was written by Philip Feeney and incorporated scores du Pré was best known for. The ballet is Marston's first Royal Ballet main stage production, and premiered on ...
Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро, romanized:Lebedínoje ózero, IPA: [lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə] listen ⓘ ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets. [ 1 ]
List of prima ballerinas. This is a list of people who have been awarded the title prima ballerina, the second highest title that can be awarded to a ballerina: prima ballerina assoluta being the first. " Prima ballerina literally translates to “first principal dancer” from Italian and, in the United States, is better known as someone who ...
The Song of the Earth is a ballet based on Das Lied von der Erde, a symphonic work written by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in 1908–1909. It is scored for two voices and orchestra, and has been used for ballets by several well-known choreographers, including Antony Tudor (1908–1987), Kenneth MacMillan (1929–1992), Heinz Spoerli ...