Yesterday was a beautiful, tragic day at the ballet as we saw Romeo & Juliet. This was my first time to see ABT do the Shakespeare classic; however, Will saw them do this last season. The plot of the doomed lovers who end up taking their own lives is well known and there were no plot [...]
Le Corsaire, a slightly comedic, very swashbuckling, pirate-based ballet was a favorite last year. With its very powerful male dancing and a second act that’s loaded with virtuous performances it was easy to fall in love with the production. This year, American Ballet Theatre has revamped the production with splendid new sets and costumes. In [...]
We arrived at the half way point in our American Ballet Theatre season yesterday afternoon with the Shostakovich Trilogy, which is a premiere work from the company’s artist-in-residence, Alexei Ratamnsky. The performance, set to three different pieces of music from Dmitri Shostakovich, featured no plot per se and a more contemporary take on ballet. The performance [...]
We made a return visit to Don Quixote yesterday afternoon. We first saw the comedic Don Quixote when we started going to the ABT Met seasons in 2011. The story is a straight forward one. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive in Sevilla. They meet Kitri, who is in love with poor barber Basilio. Kitri’s [...]
Our American Ballet Theatre season continued Tuesday night with a mixed repertory program featuring Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, the company premiere of A Month in the Country and Symphony in C. It was a wonderful evening featuring many of ABT’s principal dancers. The program opened with Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, which featured [...]
We started our third season of American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon with the beautiful and tragic Onegin. Onegin was presented at the Met for the first time in its new ABT production last season. It became one of my favorites when we saw it because of it’s dramatic plot and [...]
New York City Ballet celebrated the 109th birthday of its co-founder George Balanchine with its third annual Saturday at the Ballet with George. The program, which ran during the company’s Tschaikovsky Celebration featured a day of activities. We attended the matinee performance and then stayed for the free presentation of The Balanchine Ballerina. It was a great afternoon [...]
