Choreographer
Roland Petit

Performers
Professor Unrat: Roland Petit
Rosa Frolich: Dominique Khalfouni
Lohmann: Jean-Pierre Aviotte


Wonderfully chic modern ballet by Roland Petit, based on the novel by Heinrich Mann and Josef von Sternberg's film, which starred Marlene Dietrich in perhaps her most famous role.

Starring Dominique Khalfouni and the National Ballet of Marseille, it tells the story of the doomed liaison between the repressed Professor Unrat, who becomes obsessed with the alluring, vampish Rosa Frolich, a dancer at the famous Blue Angel caberet. Gradually, as his sense of propriety falls away under the pressure of desire, the unfortunate teacher gradually loses the respect and security he had struggled so hard to earn.

This is a superb stage production of a passionate and dramatic ballet, and epitomises Petit's characteristically stylish theatricality for which he has become so well known.