Question
A 1974 ballet about this character uses music by Jules Massenet (“JOOL mass-en-EY”) without drawing from his opera titled for her. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who struggles to choose between wealth and love, and dies from exposure in the arms of her lover Des Grieux (“deh gree-UH”) after being deported to Louisiana.
ANSWER: Manon Lescaut (“ma-NON less-COH”) [accept L’histoire de Manon; prompt on Lescaut]
[10h] L’histoire (“leest-WAH”) de Manon was created by this choreographer best known for his 1965 reimagining of Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Ballet, which was premiered by Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn.
ANSWER: Kenneth MacMillan
[10e] Macmillan used Massenet’s “Élégie” to underscore this type of dance between Manon and Des Grieux. These two-person dances have a French name literally meaning “step of two.”
ANSWER: pas de deux
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Warwick | Birmingham | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | Oxford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Durham | Bristol | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | Edinburgh | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial B | Cambridge A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |