page_title: Francisco Moncion
section_title: Roles created
hierarchical_section_title: Francisco Moncion / Professional career / Roles created
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Portrait of Francisco Moncion, in Sebastian Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print&#160;: gelatin silver.
context_page_description: Francisco Moncion was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his long career, spanning some forty years, he created roles in major works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and others. He was also a choreographer himself and a talented amateur painter.
context_section_description: This is a selected list. Choreography is by George Balanchine unless otherwise noted. Principal source of information is The Balanchine Catalogue.
  1944. Sebastian. Choreography by Edward Caton. Music by Gian Carlo Menotti. Role: Sebastian, opposite Viola Essen.
  1944. Mad Tristan. Choreography by Léonide Massine. Music by Richard Wagner. Role: Tristan.
  1946. The Four Temperaments. Music by Paul Hindemith. Role: Theme 3, with Gisella Caccialanza. This was at the first performance of Ballet Society.
  1947. Divertimento. Music by Alexei Haieff. Role: leading dancer, with Mary Ellen Moylan.
  1948. The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. Ballet-Cantata. Music by Vittorio Rieti. Role: Midas.
  1948. Concerto Barocco. Music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Role: principal dancer, with Marie-Jeanne and Ruth Gilbert.
  1948. Orpheus. Ballet in Three Scenes. Music by Igor Stravinsky. Role: Dark Angel, with Nicholas Magallanes as Orpheus and Maria Tallchief as Eurydice.
  1948. Symphony in C. Music by Georges Bizet. Role: second movement, Adagio, with Tanaquil Le Clercq.
  1949. Firebird. Music by Igor Stravinsky. Role: Prince Ivan, with Maria Tallchief as the Firebird.
  1949. Jinx. Choreography by Lew Christensen. Music by Benjamin Britten. Role: principal dancer, with Janet Reed.
  1950. The Age of Anxiety. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. Music by Leonard Bernstein. Role: principal dancer, with Tanaquil Le Clercq.
  1951. La valse. Music by Maurice Ravel. Role: Death.
  1952. Picnic at Tintagel. Choreography by Frederick Ashton, Music by Arnold Bax. Role: The Husband (King Mark), with Diana Adams as The Wife (Iseult).
  1953. Afternoon of a Faun. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. Music by Claude Debussy. Role: The Boy, with Tanaquil Le Clercq as the Girl.
  1954. Opus 34. Music by Arnold Schoenberg. Role: The First Time, with Patricia Wilde.
  1954. The Nutcracker. Classical Ballet in Two Acts, Four Scenes, and Prologue. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Role: Coffee (Arabian Dance).
  1954. Ivesiana. Music by Charles Ives. Role: Central Park in the Dark, with Janet Reed.
  1959. Episodes. Music by Anton von Webern. Role: Ricercata, with Melissa Hayden.
  1960. The Figure in the Carpet. Ballet in Five Scenes. Music by George Frideric Handel. Role: The Duke of Grenada.
  1962. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ballet in Two Acts and Six Scenes. Music by Felix Mendelssohn. Role: Theseus, Duke of Athens.
  1965. Don Quixote. Ballet in Three Acts. Music by Nicolas Nabokov. Role: Merlin.
  1967. Jewels, part 1, Emeralds. Music by Gabriel Fauré. Role: second lead dancer, with Mimi Paul.
  1970. In the Night. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. Music by Frédéric Chopin. Role: principal dancer, with Patricia McBride.
  1972. Pulcinella. Choreography by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Music by Igor Stravinsky. Role: Devil.
  1982. Noah and the Flood. Choreography by Balanchinbe and Jacques d'Amboise. Music by Igor Stravinsky. Role: principal dancer.
caption: Portrait of Francisco Moncion, in Sebastian
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