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''Graduation Ball'' is a ballet in one act choreographed by David Lichine to music composed by Johann Strauss II and arranged by Antal Doráti. With a scenario devised by Lichine and with scenery and costumes designed by Alexandre Benois, it was first presented by the Original Ballet Russe at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Australia, on 1 March 1940.〔Vincent García-Márques, "Graduation Ball," in ''The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, 1932–1952'' (New York: Knopf, 1990), pp. 258–65. Includes a detailed description of the origins and subsequent history of the ballet.〕 The ballet is set in a fashionable Viennese finishing school for girls during the 1840s. The headmistress has invited the cadets of the city's military academy to attend a ball celebrating the graduation of the senior class. The senior and junior girls have planned a series of ''divertissements'' as the evening's entertainment and are greatly excited by the event. Flirtations, exuberant dances, and a secret romance ensue. == Original cast == Besides the principal couple, ''Graduation Ball'' required a large cast of soloists and ''corps de ballet'' dancers. The Headmistress was played, ''en travestie'', by Borislav Runanine, a character dancer with the company. The Old General, at the head of the platoon of cadets, was portrayed by Igor Schwezoff. As the principal ballerina, Tatiana Riabouchinska was the leader of a group of Junior Girls in a role sometimes known as the Romantic Girl or the Good Girl, and one of her group, Tatiana Leskova, took the featured role of the Pigtail Girl, a tomboyish cut-up sometimes called the Naughty Girl. David Lichine danced the principal male role as the bashful leader of the Junior Cadets in a role sometimes known as the First Cadet or the Shy Cadet. In the ''divertissements'', Riabouchinska acted as Mistress of Ceremony, introducing the performers of the following numbers: * "The Drummer": a solo for Nicholas Orloff * "La Sylphide and the Scotsman": a ''pas de deux'' for Natasha Sobinova and Paul Petroff * "Dance-Step Competition": a duet for Alexandra Denisova and Geneviève Moulin * "Mathematics and Natural History Lesson": a trio for Helene Lineva as the Mathematics Professor, Maria Azrova as the Natural History Professor, and Marina Svetlova as their unfortunate pupil, the Student * "Perpetuum Mobile": a ''pas de deux'' for Riabouchinska and Lichine 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graduation Ball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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