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Designs for ballet and opera

Title: Designs for ballet and opera [graphic].
Author: Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-1992.
Publication: 1964-1984.

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Additional Authors

Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007.

Description

5 drawings : ink, watercolor, gouache, color; 34 x 29 cm. or smaller, in mat 45 x 40 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Set and costume designs for four ballets and an opera.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Set design drawings.
Costume design drawings.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
The snow forrest [sic], The unicorn, Tales from the Vienna Woods, and Pelléas & Mélisande are initialed R.
Tales from the Vienna Woods and Voluntaries are signed: R. Ter-Arutunian.
The snow forrest [sic] is inscribed: For Judy. Rouben.
The unicorn is inscribed: For dear Judy and Sam with much kind love & affection. Rouben.
Tales from the Vienna Woods is inscribed: For Judy with [heart]. Rouben.
Voluntaries is inscribed: For Judy with much kind [?] love, affection & admiration. Rouben.
Pelléas & Mélisande is inscribed: For Judy with gratitude-- Rouben.

Source (note)

Judith and Samuel Peabody

Biography (note)

The nutcracker (choreography, George Balanchine after Lev Ivanov; music, Peter Tchaikovsky) was first presented by the New York City Ballet in 1954 with sets by Horace Armistead and costumes by Karinska. In 1964, after the company's move to the larger stage of New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, Ter-Arutunian was commissioned to design new sets and lighting.
The unicorn, the gorgon and the manticore (choreography, John Butler; music and libretto, Gian-Carlo Menotti) was first presented in 1956 with sets by Jean Rosenthal and costumes by Robert Fletcher. This design was made for performances at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, in 1970.
Vienna waltzes (choreography, George Balanchine) was first performed by the New York City Ballet in 1977. Tales from the Vienna Woods, its opening section, was danced to music by Johann Strauss the younger.
Rouben Ter-Arutunian designed the sets and costumes for the first production of Voluntaries (choreography, Glen Tetley; music, Francis Poulenc) by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1973. It has since been taken into the repertory of many ballet companies, among them Dance Theater of Harlem.
Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande was first presented at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart), Paris, in 1902. Rouben Ter-Arutunian designed the sets and costumes for a production staged by Gian Carlo Menotti at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, in June 1966.
Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 1920-1992, was born of Armenian parentage in Tblisi, Georgia, and studied in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris before immigrating to the United States in 1951. He has designed sets and costumes for dance, opera, drama, television, and film.

Contents

The snow forrest [sic]. The Nutcracker, New York City Ballet, 1964 -- Tales from the Vienna Woods [from Vienna Waltzes], New York City Ballet, 1977 -- The unicorn [from The unicorn, the gorgon and the manticore], 6/1970 -- Voluntaries, Dance Theater of Harlem, 1984 -- Pelleas & Mélisande, Spoleto, 1966. [Inscribed on the verso:] Pelléas & Mélisande, une corridor dans le chateau, II/i, Spoleto 1966, R. Ter-Arutunian.

Call Number

*MGZGV 12-2317

OCLC

821848422

Author

Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-1992.

Title

Designs for ballet and opera [graphic].

Imprint

1964-1984.

Biography

The nutcracker (choreography, George Balanchine after Lev Ivanov; music, Peter Tchaikovsky) was first presented by the New York City Ballet in 1954 with sets by Horace Armistead and costumes by Karinska. In 1964, after the company's move to the larger stage of New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, Ter-Arutunian was commissioned to design new sets and lighting.

The unicorn, the gorgon and the manticore (choreography, John Butler; music and libretto, Gian-Carlo Menotti) was first presented in 1956 with sets by Jean Rosenthal and costumes by Robert Fletcher. This design was made for performances at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, in 1970.

Vienna waltzes (choreography, George Balanchine) was first performed by the New York City Ballet in 1977. Tales from the Vienna Woods, its opening section, was danced to music by Johann Strauss the younger.

Rouben Ter-Arutunian designed the sets and costumes for the first production of Voluntaries (choreography, Glen Tetley; music, Francis Poulenc) by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1973. It has since been taken into the repertory of many ballet companies, among them Dance Theater of Harlem.

Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande was first presented at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart), Paris, in 1902. Rouben Ter-Arutunian designed the sets and costumes for a production staged by Gian Carlo Menotti at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, in June 1966.

Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 1920-1992, was born of Armenian parentage in Tblisi, Georgia, and studied in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris before immigrating to the United States in 1951. He has designed sets and costumes for dance, opera, drama, television, and film.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Gift; Judith and Samuel Peabody, 2011, 2012.

Added Author

Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007. Associated name

Research Call Number

*MGZGV 12-2317

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