Beethoven’s only ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus, is coming up in a concert by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra this weekend, completed with dancers from the Tia Russell Dance Studio and New Haven ...
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We feature a quartet of excerpts from Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus." Roger Norrington leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Ballet and Beethoven don't seem to go together, but he did write one, called "The Creatures of Prometheus," and it was a success. From Royal Festival Hall, in London, Sir Roger Norrington conducts the ...
A symphony orchestra in a vast concert hall. Ballet dancers, barefoot. A spoken-word poet and a singer. A traditional African drummer. According to Greek myth, the titan Prometheus sculpted humans out ...