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Johann Sebastian Bach

Le jeune homme et la mort

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is a ballet by Roland Petit, choreographed in 1946 to Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582, with a one-act libretto by Jean Cocteau. It tells the story of a

Original cast#

  • Nathalie Philippart
  • Jean Babilée

La Scala Ballet, Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, March 2006#

  • Darcey Bussell
  • Roberto Bolle

Sadler’s Wells, November 2006#

  • Darcey Bussell
  • Igor Zelensky
  • March 2006 review by Susy in Ballet.co Magazine
  • November 30, 2006, review by Ruth Leon for Bloomberg News
  • November 29, 2006, review by John Percival in The Stage
  • Le Jeune Homme et la Mort – 1966 film with Rudolf Nureyev and Zizi Jeanmaire
  • Le Jeune Homme et la Mort – performance by Baryshnikov in the movie White Nights (1985)
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach