''Las Hermanas'' is a one-act ballet created by
Kenneth MacMillan in 1963 for the
Stuttgart Ballet
Stuttgart Ballet is a leading German ballet company. Dating back to 1609, then the court ballet of the dukes of Württemberg, the modern company was founded by John Cranko and is known for full-length narrative ballets. The company received the L ...
. The music is
Frank Martin's Harpsichord Concerto (1952). The piece is loosely based on ''
The House of Bernarda Alba'' by
Federico García Lorca.
The first performance was in 1963 at the
Staatstheater Stuttgart
The Staatstheater Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Theatre) is a theatre with three locations, Oper Stuttgart (Opera Stuttgart), Stuttgarter Ballett (Stuttgart Ballet), and Schauspiel Stuttgart (Stuttgart Drama Theatre), in Stuttgart, Germany. The s ...
performed by the Stuttgart Ballet. The principal characters were danced by
Marcia Haydee
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People
* Marcia (given name)
*James Marcia, Canadian psychologist
* Stefano Marcia (born 1993), South African Olympic sailor
Other uses
* ''Marcia'' (Beccafumi), a c. 1519 painting by Domenico Beccafumi
* ''Marcia'' (bival ...
,
Ray Barra and
Birgit Keil.
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Original cast
Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart, 13 July 1963:
* Marcia Haydée
Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira da Silva (born 18 April 1937) is a Brazilian ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director. She was prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko and succeeded him as the company's director, serv ...
* Birgit Keil
* Ray Barra
* Ruth Papendick
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France
* Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
Switzerland
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Notes
External links
"Las Hermanas (1971)"
Royal Opera House Collections Online, retrieved 8 October 2014
Ballets by Kenneth MacMillan
1963 ballet premieres
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