A Month in the Country

It is summer on the Russian country estate of the Islayevs. The wealthy,
bored society indulges in flirting, playing and conversing. But when the
penniless young private tutor Beoyayev arrives, the lives of one and all
are turned upside down. He whips up a storm of passion in the lady of the
house, Natalya Petrovna, as well as in her 17-year-old foster daughter
Vera. Natlaya is jealous and, believing that the young tutor prefers Vera,
resorts to an evil intrigue. Based on music by Frédéric Chopin, the ballet
"A Month in the Country" is choreographed by Frederick Ashton and danced
by London's Royal Ballet. It was produced in 1978.
Ivan Turgenyev (1818-1883) is one of the great Russian novelists of the
19th century and became known through his masterful novellas and
socio-critical novels. "A Month in the Country" was written in Paris in
1849/50. It is an elegiac play of emotions that is presented as a comedy
of manners that pokes gentle fun at the cult of psychological
self-examination: a society preoccupied by nothing but itself.

Composer:	Frédéric Chopin
Title:	A Month in the Country
Conductor:	Ashley Lawrence
Soloist:	Lynn Seymour, Anthony Dowell, Graham Fletcher, Denise Nunn, David Drew, Derek Rencher, Marguerite Porter, Anthony Conway
Set:	Julia Trevelyan Oman
Orchestra:	Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Choreography:	Frederick Ashton
Danced by:	The Royal Ballet
Video Director:	John Vernon, Colin Nears
Genre:	Ballet
Length:	43 minutes
Cat.No.:	A02500216