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The Bard is in Session at Lincoln Center
Shakespeare productions highlight New York City Ballet’s spring season
The New York City Ballet will conclude their spring season with George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Photo: Paul Kolnik)
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Sterling Hyltin and Robert Fairchild in Romeo + Juliet
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Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet returns to New York City Ballet with a full-length staging this spring season. Created in 2007, and featuring some of the company’s youngest dancers in the principal roles, the production is set to the score by Sergei Prokofiev, and features sets by the Danish painter Per Kirkeby, costumes by Kirkeby and Kirstin Lund Nielsen, and lighting by Mark Stanley. Runs May 15, 16, 17, 19 and 21, with the final performance being broadcast nationwide on PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center.
The season concludes with George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Created in 1962 to music by Felix Mendelssohn, this was Balanchine’s first wholly original full-length ballet, with the first act telling the entire story of Shakespeare’s play, and the second act being an extended wedding divertissement. It features sets by David Hays and costumes by Karinska, with lighting by Mark Stanley, after the original lighting design by Ronald Bates. Runs from June 16 through June 21.