Brahms/Handel

Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 (1861), orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra. The premiere took place Thursday, June 7, 1984 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Oscar de la Renta and lighting by Jennifer Tipton.

Casts

Original

• Merrill Ashley
• Maria Calegari

• Ib Andersen
• Bart Cook

NYCB revivals

2008 Spring — Jerome Robbins celebration

first cast

• Ashley Bouder^[1]
• Wendy Whelan^[1]

• Philip Neal^[1]
• Andrew Veyette^[1]

second cast

• Abi Stafford^[1]
• Sara Mearns^[1]

• Gonzalo Garcia^[1]
• Jared Angle^[1]

Footnotes

1. ^ first time in rôle

References

• Playbill, NYCB, Sunday, June 22, 2008

Articles

• NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, November 13, 1983

• Sunday NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, April 22, 1984

Reviews

• NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, June 9, 1984

• NY Times, Alastair Macaulay, June 24, 2008