Presents West Australian Ballet's production of Georges Bizet's story of obsessive love in which an army corporal is driven to mutiny and madness by the temperamental Gypsy smuggler Carmen.
background, listings, credits, and descriptions of more than five hundred of the world's major ballets
Terry, Walter
1976
A brief history of the ballet is followed by an alphabetically arranged listing of more than 500 major ballets giving the plot, staging, choreographer, composer, date and place of the first performance, and the dancers that originally appeared in the work.
Contains over 5,000 listings on every aspect of ballet over the past 400 years; dancers, choreographers, composers, designers, ballets, theatres, schools, companies and terms.
Examines the development of American dance through analyses of the themes, forms, and styles of movement created by choreographers in more than forty landmark dances.
Translation of Il Balletto. Five hundred ballets are listed in chronological order with a synopsis of each, a comment on its place in the development of dance, a list of other versions, and notes on the music.
