Birmingham Royal Ballet - Theme and Variations

Sabrina Lenzi and Kevin O'Hare; photo: Bill Cooper

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Theme and Variations

Theme and Variations is a joyous ballet, with its thrilling Tchaikovsky music, glittering silver and blue tutus and sumptuous décor, it has delighted all over the world. Described as 'a compressed Sleeping Beauty', it combines the excitement and theatricality of the Imperial Russian ballet with grace and elegance.

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Credits

Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography George Balanchine
Staging Patricia Neary
Designs Peter Farmer
Lighting Peter Teigen

World premiere

Ballet Theatre, 26 November 1947, New York City Centre

First performance by Birmingham Royal Ballet

10 October 1988, Birmingham Hippodrome

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