The nutcracker [videorecording] / British Broadcasting Corporation and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited ; presented by Covent Garden Pioneer ; directed for television by John Vernon ; choreography and production by Rudolf Nureyev ; music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.
Published by
U.K. : British Broadcasting Corporation ; West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c1968.
Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Nureyev after Vaĭnonen)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Call number
*MGZIA 4-3056
Credits (note)
Design, Nicholas Georgiadis ; original stage lighting, William Bundy ; television lighting, James Thomas.
Performer (note)
Merle Park (Clara) ; Rudolf Nureyev (Herr Drosselmeyer/the prince) ; Leslie Edwards (Dr. Stahlbaum) ; Betty Kavanagh (Frau Stahlbaum) ; Keith Martin (Fritz) ; Ann Jenner (Louisa) ; Gerd Larsen (grandmother) ; Stanley Holden (grandfather) ; Wayne Sleep (the nutcracker) ; Ronald Plaisted (the rat king) ; Georgina Parkinson, Michael Coleman (Spanish dance) ; Gerd Larsen, Ann Howard, Alexander Grant, Gary Sherwood (Arab dance) ; Kenneth Mason, Keith Martin, Geoffrey Cauley (Chinese dance) ; Monica Mason, Jane Robinson, Derek Rencher, Ronald Hynd (Russian dance) ; Carole Hill, Lesley Collier, Wayne Sleep (pastorale), and others.
Event (note)
Recorded at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, England, in 1968.
Title
The nutcracker [videorecording] / British Broadcasting Corporation and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited ; presented by Covent Garden Pioneer ; directed for television by John Vernon ; choreography and production by Rudolf Nureyev ; music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.
Imprint
U.K. : British Broadcasting Corporation ; West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c1968.
Country of producing entity
U.K.
Series
Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.
Event
Recorded at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, England, in 1968.
Credits
Design, Nicholas Georgiadis ; original stage lighting, William Bundy ; television lighting, James Thomas.
Performer
Danced by the Royal Ballet, with pupils of the Royal Ballet Junior School.
Cast
Merle Park (Clara) ; Rudolf Nureyev (Herr Drosselmeyer/the prince) ; Leslie Edwards (Dr. Stahlbaum) ; Betty Kavanagh (Frau Stahlbaum) ; Keith Martin (Fritz) ; Ann Jenner (Louisa) ; Gerd Larsen (grandmother) ; Stanley Holden (grandfather) ; Wayne Sleep (the nutcracker) ; Ronald Plaisted (the rat king) ; Georgina Parkinson, Michael Coleman (Spanish dance) ; Gerd Larsen, Ann Howard, Alexander Grant, Gary Sherwood (Arab dance) ; Kenneth Mason, Keith Martin, Geoffrey Cauley (Chinese dance) ; Monica Mason, Jane Robinson, Derek Rencher, Ronald Hynd (Russian dance) ; Carole Hill, Lesley Collier, Wayne Sleep (pastorale), and others.
Performer
Music performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conducted by John Lanchbery.