''Robin Hood'' is a ballet created by choreographer and artistic director Paul Vasterling for the

Nashville Ballet Nashville Ballet is a professional ballet company in Tennessee. Founded in 1986 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, it presents a repertoire of classic and contemporary works by a variety of choreographers, including Artistic Director Paul Vasterl ...

in 1998. The full-length ballet is in two acts and contains the music of

Erich Wolfgang Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold (; May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was an Austrian composer and conductor, who fled Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential comp ...

. Although Korngold wrote music to the 1938 movie ''

The Adventures of Robin Hood ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1938 American Epic film, epic swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and written by Norman Reilly Ra ...

'', no music from the film is used in the ballet. Korngold’s early chamber music is used, as well as his Theme and Variations, Op. 42, and movements from both his Symphony in F-sharp major and

Violin Concerto A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up thro ...

. The suite ''Much Ado About Nothing'' is used extensively in both acts and concludes the ballet.

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Paul Vasterling, CEO and Artistic Director, Nashville Ballet
{{Robin Hood Ballets to the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold Ballets by Paul Vasterling 1998 ballets Depictions of Robin Hood in music