Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3

Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55 (1884). The premiere took place on 3 December 1970 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery and costumes by Nicolas Benois.


Theme and Variations

Balanchine set the final movement of Tschaikovsky's third orchestra suite in 1947 for Ballet Theatre under the title Theme and Variations. He incorporated this choreography substantially unchanged into Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 as the fourth–and final–movement, which is sometimes called Tema con variazioni, when he set the entire suite.

Casts

original

revivals

2008 Summer tour

first cast

Élégie

  • Ask la Cour

Waltz

  • Rebecca Krohn[1]
  • Jared Angle

Scherzo

  • Daniel Ulbricht

Tema con variazioni

second cast

Élégie

  • Ellen Bar
  • Robert Fairchild[1]

Waltz

  • Rebecca Krohn
  • Jared Angle

Scherzo

  • Ana Sophia Scheller[1]
  • Antonio Carmena[1]

Tema con variazioni

  • Gonzalo Garcia[1]

2009 Winter

first cast

Elegie

  • Ask la Cour

Waltz
  • Rebecca Krohn

  • Jared Angle

Scherzo
  • Tiler Peck

  • Adam Hendrickson[2]

Tema con variazioni
  • Sterling Hyltin

second cast

Élégie
  • Ellen Bar

  • Robert Fairchild

Waltz

  • Jared Angle

Scherzo

  • Ana Sophia Scheller

  • Antonio Carmena

Tema con variazioni

  • Andrew Veyette[1]

third cast

Élégie

  • Robert Fairchild[4]

Waltz

  • Rebecca Krohn

  • Jared Angle

Scherzo

  • Tiler Peck

  • Adam Hendrickson

Tema con variazioni

  • Andrew Veyette[5]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 first time in rôle
  2. ↑ Adam Hendrickson replaced Daniel Ulbricht.
  3. ↑ NYC rôle debut
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Due to illness or injury, Ellen Bar and Robert Fairchild replaced Sara Mearns and Ask la Cour.
  5. ↑ Andrew Veyette replaced Joaquín De Luz.

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