Ballet Rambert in Pierrot Lunaire Choreographer GLEN TETLEY Music ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Design ROUBEN TER ARUTUNIAN
Comedy and tragedy, violence and pathos -a man's life, from innocence to experience, from childhood to death, told through the characters of the old Italian pantomime, the Commedia del Arte.
The Ballet Rambert version of this famous dance classic, first shown in 1979, brings the distinguished dancer CHRISTOPHER BRUCE back to the work which launched his career and put Rambert back on the map again when they reformed in 1967 ' from a classical into a basically modern dance company. Choreographer Glen Tetley , with designer Rouben Ter Arutunian. introduces the ballet and talks about the ideas and music that inspired it.
Music conducted by Charles Darden with SALLY BURGESS (soprano) GEOFFREY WHARTON (violin) NICHOLAS CARR (piano)
ANTHONY HINNIGAN (Cello) GLENN MARTIN (clarinet) LENORE SMITH (flute)
Introduced by JOHN DRUMMOND
Film cameraman NAT CROSBY
Directed by COLIN NEARS