Balanchine/Robbins Triple-Bill
Performances
The performances scheduled on 21, 22 and 23 November have been anticipated on 14, 15 and 16 November 2024.
Ballet
Balanchine/Robbins Triple-Bill
From 8 to 20 November 2024
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company and Orchestra
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Programma
| Theme and Variations |
Teatro alla Scala New Production George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust, choreography The performance of THEME AND VARIATIONS, a Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust. |
| Dances at a Gathering |
Teatro alla Scala New Production Jerome Robbins, choreography |
| The Concert |
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Production Jerome Robbins, choreography |
| Conductor | FAYÇAL KAROUI |
In brief
Three twentieth-century classics, three iconic titles for an evening that brings together and celebrates two unrivalled masters of ever-vibrant modernity. George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations returns to the stage with wholly new scenes and costumes by Luisa Spinatelli. A concentrated development of the lexicon of classical ballet, this masterpiece of the purest Balanchine style grew out of the intent—as the choreographer himself stated—to evoke the grand period of classical ballet, which flourished in Russia with the help of the music of Tchaikovsky. On the other hand, this will be the first time at La Scala for two of the best-known ballets by Jerome Robbins, both set to piano pieces by Chopin: Dances at a Gathering, a jewel of pure dance, inspired by musical texture and nuances, and The Concert, a wholly unique piece providing a brilliant and witty cross-section of the human fantasy and extravagance of a series of characters at a piano recital.
