Ballet and choreographer required. Jennifer Homans’s history Apollo’s Angels describes how this ballet production’s choreographer told Lynn Seymour to imagine herself as a “lump of dead meat” for part of her role. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this ballet production whose choreographer was disappointed by David Webster’s decision to have Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance the two lead roles in its premiere.
ANSWER: Kenneth MacMillan’s version of Romeo and Juliet [accept Romeo i Dzhulyetta in place of “Romeo and Juliet”] (The ballet is by Sergei Prokofiev.)
[10e] The choice of Fonteyn and Nureyev led MacMillan to leave this ballet company and head to Germany. MacMillan later served as artistic director and principal choreographer of this British ballet company founded by Ninette de Valois.
ANSWER: Royal Ballet [accept Vic-Wells Ballet or Sadler’s Wells Ballet]
[10m] MacMillan’s Mayerling set Crown Prince Rudolf’s murder-suicide to music by this composer. Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand, which was choreographed for Fonteyn and Nureyev, sets a piano sonata by this composer.
ANSWER: Franz Liszt [or Liszt Ferenc, Liszt Ferencz, or Franz Ritter von Liszt] (Specifically, it is his Piano Sonata in B minor.)
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