With musical arrangement by Gunther Schuller, Gatsby is set to the music of the 1920’s including Charles Ives, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. The most widely-read and taught 20th-centry American novel comes to life as a full-length ballet in this Oklahoma premiere.
“When I was in Milan to design our new The Nutcracker, I went to see a performance of the La Scala Company. It was The Great Gatsby by Andre Prokovsky,” said Tulsa Ballet Artistic Director, Marcello Angelini. “The ballet was so entertaining, the music so American and the story so true to the legend Gatsby became. I knew right there and then that I wanted our audience to experience this work in all its glamour.”
Audiences are invited to travel back in time with spectacular roaring twenties music and scenery. Like the novel, the ballet illustrates Gatsby’s romantic yearning for Daisy who is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom, in turn, is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, whose own jealous husband wrongly suspects her of being Gatsby’s mistress.
Presented by Tulsa Ballet.
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