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Synopsis:
Knight Errant was based mostly on one episode in the Choderlos de Laclos novel Les Liasons Dangereuses,
“Letter 79”, that of Prévan (not Valmont) and the “celebrated and salacious affair which separated ‘the
inseparables.’” The letter describes a typical eighteenth-century scientific, rather detached approach to lovemaking
and its consequences among acquaintances. To this Tudor added an epilogue based on Prévan’s discomfiture
(“Letter 85”) by the Marquise de Merteuil. The Woman of Consequence is inspired in part by a mixture of the Marquise
and the beautiful foreign mistress whom Prévan deliberately quarreled with in order to have twenty-four
hours to devote to the undoing of the “inseparables.”
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| Choreography |
| Antony Tudor |
| Music / Composer |
Richard Strauss
Incidental music to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and prelude to Ariadne auf Naxos |
| Libretto |
Antony Tudor
After Ladas' book, Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| First Performance |
England
Manchester Opera House
November 25, 1968
Royal Ballet Touring Company |
| Scenery |
| Stefanos Lazaridis |
| Cast First Performance |
| Hendrik Dael, Caroline Southam, Alfreda Thorogood, Margaret Barbieri, Elizabeth Anderton, Spencer
Parker, Michael ingleton, Peer Fairweather, Victor Kravchenko, Yvonne Saunders, Vicki Karra, Susan Lawe, Kathleen
Denley, Brigid Skemp, Adrian Grater, David Gordon, Kerrison Cooke, Terence Hyde, Christopher Carr, Michael Bears,
Alan Hooper, Nicholas Johnson, Brian Bertscher |
| Notated |
| NA |
| Number of Dancers |
| NA |
| Average Length |
| NA |
| Costumes / Scenery |
| NA |
| Licensing Information |
| NA |
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