The Judgement of Paris

Name: The Judgement of Paris
Brand: Kurt Weill Music
SKU: 158958
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ballet compiled by Antony Tudor incorporating music from "Die Dreigroschenoper"

Edition: Matériel d'exécution

Type de produit

Détails du produit

Description

The Judgement of Paris is a parody on a famous story from antiquity: a young man, Paris, is asked to choose who among three goddesses, Juno, Venus and Minerva, is the most beautiful. A golden apple is her prize. Unlike the myth, Antony Tudor’s original choreography sets the ballet’s narrative in a dive bar with three harlots displaying their charms to the modern Paris, now a customer in the bar. Paris makes his choice from among the harlots and chooses Venus. But before Paris can fall into her arms, he stumbles drunkenly onto the floor and is promptly stripped of his valuables by the ‘goddesses’. The narrative’s clever twists give the work’s title a prescient double meaning: ‘The Paris Judgement’ being equally appropriate. Antony Tudor’s choreography sets seven numbers from Weill’s The Threepenny Opera including The Ballad of Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny. The ballet was premiered in London in 1938 and revived by American Ballet Theater for performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 2008. It awaits its premiere in continental Europe.

Orchestral Cast

1(pic).1.2(1.asax, 2.tsax).1-1.2.2.0-perc(cym, 2gongs, s.d, military drum, b.d, wdbl)-pno-str

Contenu

Ouverture
I Andante con moto
II Allegro vivace
III Agitato
IV Moderato assai
V Allegretto
VI Andantino

Plus d'infos

Titre:

The Judgement of Paris

ballet compiled by Antony Tudor incorporating music from "Die Dreigroschenoper"

Edition:

Matériel d'exécution

Maison d'édition:

Kurt Weill Music

Year of composition:

1938

Durée:

30 ′0 ′′

Première:

Jul 1938 · London (UK)
Mercury Theatre, Ballet Club

Choreographie: Antony Tudor
(scenic)

Mots clés:

#ballet #berlin #Paris #france #expressionism #myth #20s #roaring twenties #twenties #bertolt brecht #germany #capitalism #money #antiquity #parody #moritat #prostitution #social inequality #trojan war

Détails techniques

Type de support:

Matériel en location / d'exécution

Numéro du produit:

LEA 4217-01

Droits de livraison:

Droits de distribution pour l'Allemagne : Schott Music. Droits de distribution pour l'Europe sauf l'Allemagne : Universal Edition. Droits de distribution pour les autres pays : European American Music Corporation

Fabricant:

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

NY 10003 New York

États-Unis

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Responsable dans l'UE:

Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG

55116 Mainz

Allemagne

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