Performance Database

Choreographer: Antony Tudor
Composer: Kurt Weill
Set designer: Hugh Laing
Costume designer: Hugh Laing
Rambert premiere: 1 Oct 1940, Ballet Rambert and the London Ballet, The Arts Theatre Club, London
World premiere: 15 Jun 1938, London Ballet, Westminster Theatre, London, United Kingdom
Production note: In the programme, Hugh Laing is credited with 'theme and costumes'.
Revival credits: 2006 revival:
Restaged by: Sally Martin
Artistic advisor: Lucy Burge
Set designer: Liz Reed (after Hugh Laing)
Lighting designer: Sid Ellen
Revival note: 'This version of Judgment of Paris' may differ from Antony Tudor's productions in America'. [The title for this revival was given as 'Judgment of Paris' (no 'e').]
Music title: Six extracts from 'Die Dreigroschenoper' (1928): two verses of 'Moritat'; 'Kanonen Song'; 'Eifersuchtduett'; 'Barbarasong'; 'Seerauberjenny'; introduction to 'Pollys Lied'; first 'Dreigroschenfinale (Act I)'
Music details: Live music: piano. Occasionally performed with an ensemble of 2 clarinets, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, 2 trumpets, trombone, banjo, guitar, timpani, percussion, piano, harmonium, celesta
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0114