Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder , op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder , op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe. The premiere took place on November 22, 1960, New York, at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with mise en scèn by David Hays and costumes by Karinska. The duo pianists were Louise Sherman and Robert Irving and the singers Angeline Rasmussen, Mitzi Wilson, Frank Poretta and Herbert Beattie.

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Scenario

The musicians and dancers appear on stage together in period costumes. The dancers wear formal evening dress and the women dancing slippers during the first set of eighteen waltzes in a cozy ballroom; after a brief lowering of the curtain they dance the next fourteen waltzes under a starry sky, the women in calf-length tulle skirts and pointe shoes. They leave the stage two by two and return in pairs in original costume to listen to the last waltz.

Original cast

Diana Adams Melissa Hayden Jillana Violette Verdy

Bill Carter Jonathan Watts Conrad Ludlow Nicholas Magallanes

Film

• 1973 RM Productions

Videography and DVD

• 2004 Kultur Balanchine part I excerpts from 2005 Films du Prieuré Violette et Mr. B

Television

1961 CBC Montreal, L'Heure du Concert 1973 RM Productions 2004 French television Violette et Mr. B excerpt

2004 PBS Live from Lincoln Center: Balanchine 100 excerpt 2004 French television Violette et Mr. B excerpt

See also

Liebeslieder Walzer stagings

List of New York City Ballet repertory

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