Alfred Rodrigues

**Alfred Rodrigues** (18 Ọgọst 1922 - 12 Jenụwarị 2002) bụ onye na-agba egwu ballet na South Africa. Emepụtara ọrụ ya site na ụlọ ọrụ ballet na opera n'ọtụtụ mba ụwa. 

## Ndụ mmalite na ọzụzụ
A mụrụ na Cape Town, obodo nwere ọnụ ahịa nke dị nso na nsọtụ ndịda South Africa, Alfred Rodrigues mere ihe ngosi mbụ ya na ogbo mgbe ọ bụ nwata. Na 1936, mgbe ọ dị afọ 14, ọ hụrụ ihe ngosi nke Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe mgbe ụlọ ọrụ ahụ gara South Africa, mmasị ya na ballet gbakwara. O sonyeere Cape Town Ballet Club na 1937 mgbe ọ hụrụ mgbasa ozi etinyere na akwụkwọ akụkọ Dulcie Howes, na-arịọ maka ndị na-agba egwú nwoke. N'ikpeazụ, dị ka nwa akwụkwọ na klas ballet nke onye nkuzi a na-eme ememme Cecily Robinson, ọ naghị egosi nkà ọ bụla dị ka onye na-agba egwú, ma na ụlọ ọrụ o gosipụtara ụfọdụ flair maka choreography. O mere ballet mbụ ya na 1938, obere mpempe akwụkwọ maka ụmụ akwụkwọ nọ na Ballet Club setịpụrụ na ntụgharị piano nke "Danse Macabre," abụ uri (op. 40) nke Camille Saint-Saëns dere na egwu egwu egwu, ụda ịkwọ ụgbọala, na egwu dị egwu. nhazi. N'ịbụ onye Howes gbara ume, n'oge na-adịghị anya, ọ rụrụ ọrụ abụọ ọzọ maka klọb ahụ, *Le Roi s'Amuse* (1940) na *L'Île des Sirènes* (1941). 

## Ọrụ ọkachamara
Nwapụta nke Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ kwụsịrị ọrụ Rodrigues na-ekwe nkwa dị ka onye na-egwu egwu egwu. O sonyeere ndị agha South Africa ma hụ ọgụ na Egypt na Syria tupu e mebie ya na njedebe nke agha ahụ. N'afọ 1946, ọ bịarutere England n'ụgbọ agha, gaa London, ma malitekwa ọmụmụ ihe ịgba egwu ya na Stanislas Idzikowski na Vera Volkova, bụ ndị kụziri na Sadler's Wells Ballet School. Otu n'ime ọrụ ịgba egwu mbụ ya bụ na mmepụta West End nke *Song nke Norway*, egwu egwu egwu egwu nke George Balanchine dere.  N'afọ sochirinụ, 1947, a kpọrọ ya òkù isonye na Sadler's Wells Ballet, ebe ndị na-agba egwú dị ụkọ na London mgbe agha gasịrị. N'afọ 1949, a kwalitere ya ka ọ bụrụ onye na-agụ egwú ma gbaa ya ume ịchụso mmasị choreographic ya, ebe ọ kwụsịrị *L'Île des Sirènes* maka njem Margot Fonteyn na Robert Helpmann, kpakpando nke ụlọ ọrụ ahụ. Dị ka onye na-agba egwú, ọ gara na United States na Canada na ụlọ ọrụ ma ọ dịghị akara dị ka onye na-eme egwuregwu. Otú ọ dị, dị ka onye na-agụ egwú na onye na-emepụta ihe, ọ gara nke ọma karị, na-eme ọtụtụ ballet maka Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet nke a nabatara nke ọma. 

N'ịbụ onye nwetaworo nkwado dị oke mkpa maka ọrụ ya, Rodrigues kpebiri ịchụso ụzọ na-enweghị onwe ya, na-elekwasị anya n'ọrụ dị ka onye na-egwu egwu. Ọ malitere na 1955 na Italy, na mmepụta nke *Romeo na Juliet* na Rom amphitheater na Verona na mmepụta nke *Cinderella* maka Teatro alla Scala na Milan. Sergei Prokofiev debere ballet abụọ ahụ ka ọ bụrụ egwu, ma ha abụọ na-ahazi karịsịa maka ballerina French Violette Verdy . Mgbe ihe abụọ a gasịrị, ọ gara n'ihu na-ebuli ballet ya n'ụwa nile, na-arụ ọrụ na Poland, Denmark, Turkey, United States, Chile, Japan, Germany, Philippines, na South Africa. Site n'onyinye ya maka ihe nkiri na ihe nkiri, ọ na-amasịkarị ọrụ akụkọ. 

Otu n'ime ọrụ choreograph nke Rodrigues dere bụ ndị a. 

* 1938. *Danse Macabre*, music by Camille Saint-Saëns; for Cape Town Ballet Club.
* 1940. *Le Roi s'Amuse*, music by Léo Delibes; for Cape Town Ballet Club.
* 1941. *L'Île des Sirènes*, music by Claude Debussy; for Cape Town Ballet Club.
* 1953. *Blood Wedding*, music by Denis ApIvor; for Sadler's Wells Ballet, London. Based on the tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, this is Rodrigues's most popular work. It has been staged by numerous companies around the world.
* 1954. *Café des Sports*, music by Antony Hopkins; for Sadler's Wells Ballet.
* 1955. *Saudades*, music by Denis ApIvor; for Sadler's Wells Ballet.
* 1955. *Romeo and Juliet*, music by Sergei Prokofiev; for La Scala Ballet at Verona Arena. A vehicle for Violette Verdy.
* 1955. *Cinderella*, music by Sergei Prokofiev; for Teatro alla Scala, Milan. A vehicle for Violette Verdy.
* 1956. *Casse Noisette*, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; for Teatro all Scala. A vehicle for Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes.
* 1956. *The Miraculous Mandarin*, music by Béla Bartók; for the Royal Ballet, London. A vehicle for Michael Somes.
* 1959. *Double Violin Concerto*, music by Johann Sebastian Bach; for the Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen.
* 1960. *Double Concerto*, music by Antonio Vivaldi; for the Royal Ballet.
* 1961. *Jabez and the Devil*, music by Arnold Cooke; for the Royal Ballet. A vehicle for Antoinette Sibley.
* 1962. *Le Sacre du Printemps*, music by Igor Stravinsky; for the Polish National Ballet, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw.
* 1963. *Soirée Musicale*, music by Gioachino Rossini, orchestrated by Benjamin Britten; for Teatro alla Scala.
* 1963. *Daphnis and Chloë*, music by Maurice Ravel; for the Polish National Ballet.
* 1963. *Orpheus*, music by Igor Stravinsky; for the Polish National Ballet.
* 1963. 

### Ịgba egwu na Opera

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### Ọrụ ndị ọzọ
Rodrigues na-arụsikwa ọrụ ike n'ihe nkiri egwu a ma ama, na fim, na n'ihe nkiri telivishọn. N'ime egwu egwu West End nke o kere egwu bụ *Airs na Shoestring* (1953), *Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure* (1954), *Pay the Piper* (1954), *Chrysanthemum* (1956), *Ann Veronica* (1960s), na *On. Akụkụ Brighter* (1961). Ihe ịga nke ọma ya kacha mma bụ *Charlie Girl* (1963). Starring Dame Anna Neagle, ọ gbara afọ ise na Adelphi Theatre. Na akụkọ ihe nkiri Britain, a maara Rodrigues maka *An Alligator Aha ya bụ Daisy* (1955), *Oh, Rosalinda!* (1955), na *Show Band Parade* (1957). Na telivishọn, o kere egwu maka usoro *Eric Robinson Presents On the Bright Side*, nke ewepụtara n'oge 1960.  Ihe owuwu ya n'ịmepụta egwu egwu na-atọ ụtọ na-ejere ya ozi yana ụlọ ihe nkiri egwu dị ka ọ na-eme n'ọgbọ ballet.

## Ndụ nke onwe na nke emechaa
Na 1948, Rodrigues lụrụ British ballerina na onye nkụzi Julia Farron, onye ya na ya nwere nwa nwoke. Christopher. Ha bụ di na nwunye raara onwe ha nye. N'oge agadi, Rodrigues ghọrọ onye nwere nkwarụ siri ike, ma ka ọ na-erule 1996, ọ nọ na Japan iji mee ka *Cinderella* maka ụlọ ọrụ Kobayashi, na Farron na-enye ya nkwado site n'ime ihe dị ka "ụkwụ ya." N’ebe ọ bụla ọ na-arụ ọrụ, ndị na-agba egwú ya hụrụ ya n’anya n’ihi ihe ọchị, ịhụnanya na ọmịiko ya. Ọ nwụrụ mgbe ọ dị afọ 80 na London, ka ọ rụchara ọrụ ogologo oge na nke na-arụpụta ihe na-enweghị atụ. 

## Ntụaka
malitere na 1955 na Italy, na mmepụta nke Romeo na Juliet na Rom amphitheater na Verona na mmepụta nke Cinderella maka Teatromalitere na 1955 na Italy, na mmepụta nke *Romeo na Juliet* na Rom amphitheater na Verona na mmepụta nke *Cinderella* maka Teatromalitere na 1955 na Italy, na mmepụta nke *Romeo na Juliet* na Rom amphitheater na Verona na mmepụta nke *Cinderella* maka Teatro