Stravinsky - Pulcinella Soldat Richard Alston Ashley Page Christopher Carney Amanda Britton Rambert Dance Company

Igor Stravinsky?s Pulcinella, with Choreography by Richard Alston. Ballet with song in one act. The original version of PULCINELLA was choreographed by Massine with designs by Picasso in 1920. Like the original, Richard Alston's greatly-admired version of the complicated love-story has a Neapolitan setting and is based on traditional Commedia dell'Arte characters. "? costumes are simple and to the point?the set, designed here by Howard Hodgkin, creates a colourful backdrop, which enhances without complicating, and the dancers are suitably lithe and athletic" THE INDEPENDENT. Pulcinella: Christopher Carney, Pimpinella: Amanda Britton. Rambert Dance Company. Della Jones Soprano Julian Pike Tenor Martin Nelson Bass, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Brian Wright. SOLDAT, a Ballet in one act with choreography by Ashley Page. British choreographer Ashley Page, used the suite from Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat for his ballet, SOLDAT - the traditional folk tale of the soldier and the devil in a battle of wits for the soldier's soul. "A fluent and theatrically striking work" THE SUNDAY TIMES "An immediate pleasure comes from the unity between dance, music and design, which speak with the same clear voice" THE SUNDAY TIMES. The Devil: Gary Lambert, The Soldier: Glenn Wilkinson, The Princess: Amanda Britton. Rambert Dance Company with The Mercury Ensemble, Conductor Roger Heaton.