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Ballet: Work details
| Choreographer: |
Ninette de Valois |
| Composer: |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Music title: |
Job, a Masque for Dancing (1930) |
| Orchestrator: |
Constant Lambert |
| Librettist: |
Geoffrey Keynes |
| Work definition: |
Masque for dancing in eight scenes |
| Based on: |
Based on 'The Book of Job' by William Blake |
| Notes: |
Programme for 20 May 1948 performance describes it as 'A Masque for Dancing by Geoffrey Keynes and Gwendolen Raverat'.
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| World premiere: |
5 July 1931, Camargo Society, Cambridge Theatre, London |
| ROH premiere: |
20 May 1948, Sadler's Wells Ballet |
| ROH company premiere: |
22 September 1931, The Vic-Wells Ballet, The Old Vic Theatre |
| Productions |
| Job (1931) |
The Vic-Wells Ballet (3 performances online) |
| Job (1948) |
Sadler's Wells Ballet (13 performances online) |