Performance Database

Choreographer: Walter Gore
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Set designer: Kenneth Rowell
Costume designer: Kenneth Rowell
World premiere: 19 Nov 1948, Ballet Rambert, His Majesty's Theatre
Work note: ''The Winter night of my despair''.Dedication: 'Dedicated to Sally Gilmour'.
Production note: In the programmes, Kenneth Rowell is credited as 'decor' or 'decor and costumes'.
Number of dancers: 13 dancers
Music title: Concerto No. 2 in C for Piano and Orchestra (1900-01)
Music details: Live music: piano and orchestra; sometimes performed to a recording
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0143

Performances

Date ↿↾ Programme ↿⇂ Venue ↿⇂
23 Jul 1962
Evening
Night Shadow | Façade (The Original Version) | Conflicts* | Winter Night Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
10 Jul 1956
Evening
Winter Night | The Dying Swan | Façade | L'Après-midi d'un faune | Les Sylphides Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
7 May 1956
Evening
Swan Lake (Act II) | Winter Night | Judgment of Paris | Coppélia (Act III)* Arts Theatre Cambridge
21 Jun 1954
Evening
Les Sylphides | Variations on a Theme* | Gala Performance | Winter Night Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
17 May 1954
Evening
Les Sylphides | Love Knots* | Winter Night | Façade (The Original Version) Oxford Playhouse
8 Jul 1952
Evening
Nutcracker Suite | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Winter Night | Façade (The Original Version) Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
8 Nov 1950
Evening
Les Sylphides | Kaleidescope | Jota Aragonesa* | Winter Night | Bar aux Folies-Bergère Arts Theatre Cambridge
19 Nov 1948
Evening
The Descent of Hebe | Carnival of Animals | Winter Night* | The Nutcracker Suite His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Australia