Las Hermanas is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1963 for the Stuttgart Ballet. The music is Frank Martin's Harpsichord Concerto (1952). The piece is loosely based on The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca.
The first performance was in 1963 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart performed by the Stuttgart Ballet. The principal characters were danced by Marcia Haydee, Ray Barra and Birgit Keil.
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Raymond Martin Barallobre Ramirez (January 3, 1930 – March 26, 2025), known professionally as Ray Barra, was an American ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer and ballet director who worked mostly in Europe. He was a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre and from 1959 a principal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet, where he danced parts in creations by John Cranko including Romeo in Romeo and Juliet with Marcia Haydée as Julia, and the title role in Onegin. He created major roles in ballets by Kenneth MacMillan, Las Hermanas and Song of the Earth. After retiring from the stage due to an injury, he worked as a ballet master first with the Berlin State Ballet, then with John Neumeier at the ballet of the Oper Frankfurt and the Hamburg Ballet. He was associate director of the Spanish National Dance Company, and created several choreographies internationally.
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