Friday, February 25, 2000
Standbys, festival works highlight ballet's season
BY CAROL NORRIS
Enquirer contributor
A well-known tragedy, a classic comedy, a children's story and two “festival” concerts will make up Cincinnati Ballet's 2000-2001 season.
The full-length ballets are Romeo & Juliet, Coppelia and Peter Pan. Each has been staged here within the past six years with box office success.
In the two “festival” concerts, where one-acts are assembled to make a full evening of ballet, choreographers figure more prominently than familiar titles.
The “Autumn Festival,” Nov. 17-18, brings Val Caniparoli back to stage his fun and sexy “Aquilarco.” Returning also is the company's artistic director emeritus, Frederic Franklin, with a staging of “Swan Lake-Act II.”
In his first work for the company in a major concert, Cincinnati Ballet academy director Daniel Simmons will set “Un Esprit de Sept” to the music of Verdi. A premiere also is scheduled, with its choreographer to be announced.
Cincinnati Ballet Artistic Director Victoria Morgan will give her own interpretation to Romeo & Juliet (Feb. 9-11), using the score by Serge Prokofiev.
The “Spring Festival,” March 9-11, opens with James Truitte's “With Timbrel and Dance,” a long-standing staple in the company's repertory. Ms. Morgan is creating a new work, tentatively titled “Graceland,” with costumes by Carter Smith. George Balanchine's “Four Temperaments” fills out the program.
Coppelia, with new choreography by Kirk Peterson to the traditional 1870 Leo Delibes score, follows April 6-8. This is the comic story of Dr. Coppelius, a doll maker in a tiny European village hundreds of years ago. It's the love story of Swanilda, a feisty village girl, and her fiance Franz, who is temporarily smitten with a doll in the doll maker's shop.
The season ends May 11-13 with another go at Peter Pan, last done in 1997. With new steps by Washington Ballet's Septime Webre, the children's fantasy will use the original music of ballet orchestra conductor Carmon DeLeone. The orchestra will accompany every concert.
The Nutcracker (Dec. 15-26) will be the same version seen here for the past several years, with contributions from a variety of choreographers.
Subscription prices remain the same: $35-$230 for a single ticket subscription available at the ballet's box office, 621-5282. Subscriptions do not include the Nutcracker. Single tickets, $8-$47, go on sale in September.
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