Performance Database

Choreographer: Richard Alston
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Set designer: Howard Hodgkin
Costume designer: Howard Hodgkin
Lighting designer: Ellen Mumford
World premiere: 13 Jan 1987, Ballet Rambert, Grand Theatre Leeds
Work note: Created for a collaboration with Opera North on a Stravinsky double bill: 'Oedipus Rex', an opera-oratorio performed by Opera North, and 'Pulcinella', a dance work performed by Ballet Rambert with three singers from Opera North.
Production note: Howard Hodgkin is credited as 'design'.
Music title: Pulcinella: Ballet in one act for small orchestra with three solo voices after Giambattista Pergolesi (1924/1965)
Music details: Live music: soprano, tenor and bass soloists and orchestra.
Music note: At the time of composition, it was believed that Pergolesi had composed all the pieces Stravinsky used. It was subsequently discovered that several of them had been misattributed to Pergolesi and were actually by Domenico Gallo, Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Alessandro Parisotti, and Carlo Ingazio Monza.
Sponsors: Sponsored by National Westminster Bank.
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0344

Performances

Date Programme Venue
13 Jan 1987
Evening 		Pulcinella* Grand Theatre Leeds