Swan Lake – Mariinsky; NYCB

Tickets for NYCB's Swan Lake performances beginning September 17th will go on sale in early August.  

Tickets for the Mariinsky's Swan Lake performances at the Kennedy Center in January go on sale October 2nd.

You can bet your last dollar that neither of those companies will resemble the Bolshoi Landfill that ABT has become.

Comments

[Henry Holland]

Haglund, ABT finally announced the rep and casting for the mixed-bill program at the Dot here in Los Angeles in July (the new "Le Corsaire" is the main fare):

JUL 11

Apollo
M. Gomes
P. Herrera
M. Hamrick
D. Teuscher

Chamber Symphony
J. Whiteside
I. Boylston
Y. Kajiya
J. Kent

Symphony in C
S. Abrera
E. Tamm
V. Part
C. Stearns
Y. Kajiya
D. Simkin
S. Lane
S. Radetsky

Thoughts most welcome.

[Haglund]

Hi Henry.

Well to be frank, there are winners and losers in the cast every night. The most offensive casting of the entire week is the Sunday matinee Le Corsaire with Vasiliev as Conrad, but it also has the best Gulnare (Abrera), Lankendam (Radetsky), Ali (Cornejo), and Salstein (Birbanto). Salstein alone is worth the price of the ticket.

The opening night repertory program is really an odd mix. I doubt that the audience will "get" Chamber Symphony taken out of the context of the whole Shostakovich Trilogy unless ABT puts a few notes in the Playbill. Symphony in C has a very good principal cast - Abrera as the principal in the most difficult 1st Movement is a very fine interpreter of Balanchine and manages the speed and articulation admirably. The corps will disappoint anyone who has seen NYCB or Miami City Ballet perform this work. Apollo should be okay.