Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Venue
Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria
Company
Vienna State Opera Ballet
Sources

Vienna State Opera Ballet mixed programme

17 and 19 March 1980

The repertoire for the performance on 17 March was Pierrot Lunaire, Four Last Songs, Twilight and Songs of a Wayfarer, and Nureyev performed in all except Twilight. On 19 March it was Pierrot Lunaire, Four Last Songs and Ulysees, and Nureyev danced in all three pieces.

The soprano Gundula Janowitz performed with the orchestra for Four Last Songs.

Works

Pierrot Lunaire

Choreography: Glen Tetley

Music: Arnold Schoenberg

Performance role: Pierrot

Other performers: Vivi Flindt (Columbine),
Johnny Eliasen (Brighella)

Four Last Songs

Choreography: Rudi van Dantzig

Music: Richard Strauss

Performance role: Angel of Death

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Ursula Szameit,
Georg Ditl,
Susanne Fichtenbaum,
Ludwig Karl,
Gisela Cech,
Michael Birkmeyer,
Susanne Kirnbauer,
Ludwig M Musil

Ulysses

Choreography: Rudi van Dantzig

Music: Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Performance role: Ulysses

Other performers: