Pierrot Lunaire

Ballet: Work details

Choreographer: Glen Tetley
Composer: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg
Music title: Dreimals sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds 'Pierrot Lunaire' Op. 21
Librettist: O E Hartleben
Work definition: Melodrama for narrator and ensemble
After: After the collection of poems 'Pierrot Lunaire: 50 Rondels Bergamasques' by Albert Giraud
World premiere: 5 May 1962, New York Fashion Institute of Technology
ROH premiere: 17 October 2005, The Royal Ballet
ROH company premiere: 17 October 2005, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Productions
Pierrot Lunaire (2005) The Royal Ballet (11 performances online)