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Mother Goose | |||
| Composer | Maurice Ravel | ||
| Music | Ma Mere l′Oye Suite (1908, orchestrated 1912) | ||
| Dancers | Muriel Aasen (Story Teller, Princess Florine); Delia Peters (Good Fairy); Tracy Bennett (Bad Fairy); Deborah Koolish (Beauty); Richard Hoskinson (Beast); Matthew Giordano (Hop o′ My Thumb); Colleen Neary (Laideronette); Jay Jolley (Green Serpent); Daniel Duell (Prince Charming) | ||
| Costumes | Stanley Simmons | ||
| Lighting | Ronald Bates | ||
| Genre | BALLET | ||
| Premiere | May 22, 1975, New York State Theater, New York City Ballet | ||
| Casting Reqs | 32 Dancers
Story Teller, Princess Florine, Good Fairy (girl), Bad Fairy (boy), Beauty (girl), Beast (boy), Hop o My Thumb (boy), Laideronnette (girl), Green Serpent (boy), Prince Charming, Cupid (boy), Blackamoors (2 girls, 2 boys), Pagodines (2 girls, 2 boys), Courrier (boy), Corps (5 girls, 8 boys) | ||
| Requirements | story teller, orchestra | ||
| Running Time | 25′ | ||
| Notes | In 1908 Ravel wrote five piano pieces based on fairy tales as a suite which he called "Ma Mere l′Oye". Later, in 1911, writing a scenario of his own, he added more pieces plus connective transitions. His scenario, charming and wittily detailed as written into the score itself, contains delightful invention. To the spellbound Sleeping Beauty (a character in a fairy tale by Perrault) he gives dreams of other fairy tale characters (also by Perrault or imitators). The ballet had its premiere in 1912 at the Theatre des Arts, Paris. | ||