If the entirety reached the brilliance of the score's final quarter of an hour, Oedipe would be a repertoire work.
Two highlights of the season are the company premiere of "Rain Dogs," by Johan Inger, a new repertoire work by Emanuel Gat and a new full-length program by Angelin Preljocaj.
I dream of an idea, develop the repertoire, work with different composers, artists and designers and build a show – usually along with an album – and then tour it.
Since that date Wheeldon has created more than 20 repertoire works, almost all abstract, for major ballet companies.
He acknowledges that La Traviata - "which Verdi prudently set in the year he was in Paris and knew about" - fits when it was set, but claims most of this repertoire works better when shifted to a period with "a recognisable social correspondence.
On his day, and this was definitely one of them, Mariss Jansons has an exceptional ability to bring cornerstone orchestral repertoire works back to life, blowing away their cobwebs without indulging in any quirky or perverse interpretative angles to help the piece restate its case.
The first (which features such musicians as the pianists Gilbert Kalish and Wu Han and the violinist Daniel Hope) draws from both the festive and cerebral sides of the Gallic repertoire — works by Boulez, Milhaud ("La Création du Monde"), Ravel ("Tzigane"), and Messiaen (the "Quartet for the End of Time").
In the 1930s, the company presented standard repertoire works including operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, lighter works by Balfe, Donizetti, Offenbach and Johann Strauss, some novelties, among which were operas by Holst, Ethel Smyth and Charles Villiers Stanford, and an unusual attempt at staging an oratorio, Mendelssohn's Elijah.
Yet despite inspiring legions of artists, the Grammy Award winner maintains that he has no intentions of challenging any artists who have sampled his impressive repertoire of work.
Its repertoire included works of Maksim Gorky, L.N. Andreyev, Leo Tolstoy, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Gerhart Hauptmann, among others, and it staged works of political and social significance as well as satires, fantasies, and comedies.
It's just that nothing in the repertoire has worked.
