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Romantic Evening of Ballet
October 11, 2004

Casanova Fantasy is a work about one of history's great lovers, Casanova. The choreography and libretto were created by Michail Lavrvosky, and the music is by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The ballet premiered on June 1993, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Lavrovsky created the ballet for Alexander Vetrov when he [Vetrov] was the lead male principal dancer with the Bolshoi. At the time, Mr. Lavrovsky said of Mr. Vetrov, "Alexander Vetrov, by his texture and technique, tremendous emotion and talent in him, I believe that character (Casanova) suits him. It befits his essence so to speak". Metropolitan Classical Ballet's September 2001 staging received rave reviews from critics and audiences when it premiered with Alexander Vetrov in the title role.

Pas de Quatre
Music by Cesare Pugni
Choreography by Jules Joseph Perrot

Pas de Quatre, is one of the most famous works in ballet history. It premiered in London on July 12, 1845, at a command performance for Queen Victoria when four of the greatest ballerinas of the nineteenth century, Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito and Lucile Grahn, appeared together creating a great moment in the beautiful era of Romantic Ballet. Metropolitan Classical Ballet's principal dancers, Olga Pavlova, Marina Goshko and Maria Kudyakova and Sarah Marr will perform the Pas de Quatre. The Company first presented Pas de Quatre in 1998 at Texas Hall in Arlington.

The first two works will be accompanied by the Texas Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Ron Spigelman, who returns this season as music director for the Metropolitan Classical Ballet.

Cowgirls Live Forever
Choreography by Paul Mejia
featuring Elizabeth Blum, vocalist,
and the Johnnie High Band

Paul Mejia's energetic and fun-filled ballet, Cowgirls Live Forever, features Elizabeth Blum, an eighteen-year-old country music singer from Fort Worth who is enjoying nationwide acclaim as a rising country music sensation. The ballet is a revival of a work originally performed with live music by the Dixie Chicks in 1994 under the title All the Right Women, when Laura Lynch Tull was the lead singer of the group. Ms. Tull is acting as a consultant on the ballet. The Johnnie High Band will provide the music. Band members are Kevin Bailey, bandleader, Brent Dacus, Milo Deering, Gerald Jones and Mark Abbot.