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Summer
Repertory Accompanied by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra |
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The evening will open with the second Balanchine ballet of the season, Apollo. Considered to be one of George Balanchine's greatest masterpieces, the ballet is based on the Greek god of music. Apollo was choreographed in an atmosphere of great creativity and inspiration during Balanchine's last years in Europe and marked his first collaboration with Igor Stravinsky, a relationship that spanned a good portion of the 20th Century. It was first presented in 1928 by the Ballets Russes at Theatre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris. Metropolitan Classical Ballet first performed Apollo in 2000. The evening concludes with Alexander Vetrov's restaging of the great epic ballet Spartacus. Considered to be one of Grigorovich's greatest masterpieces, it premiered at the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow in 1968. Later, Alexander Vetrov starred in the role of Crassus when he was at the time the leading male principal dancer at the Bolshoi. In 2004, Grigovovich granted Mr. Vetrov permission to create an abridged variation of the famous ballet, which premiered at Bass Hall in April 2004 to great acclaim.
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