Under the leadership of Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen, Boston Ballet has assembled a company of world-class dancers and has garnered outstanding revenues for its recent performances on their summer tour to Spain and in New York and Orange County's Fall For Dance Festivals.
"Back from a successful summer tour of Spain and a week after an extravagant gala at the Citi Wang Theatre, the company is hardly resting on its laurels. Everything about the season-opener indicates we’re in for a sensational season."
Theodore Bale, The Boston Herald
La Sylphide and Serenade
"It has been much too long since "La Sylphide" has been seen in New York City. Or so it seemed when the Boston Ballet danced this August Bournonville classic at the Wang Theater. The nostalgia was partly a result of the orchestra's robustly singing performance of the Herman Lovenskjold score, conducted by Jonathan McPhee. But the dancing was strong, bringing the story of love and death in the Scottish Highlands freshly alive in sweet and spunky detail."
"Serenade, which opened the program, unfolded at a clip that Balanchine would probably have admired, without blurring of any of the eloquent subtext of the choreographer's first American Ballet."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times 10/23/07
"[Erica] Cornejo has done more than master the Bournonville style -- the fingertips perched beneath her chin, the twist in her upper back that turns her body from a plane to a three-dimensional spiral reverberating from within...The ending is predictable, and could be sentimental. But in Cornejo's hands it echoes with pathos and the terror of mortality."
Thea Singer, The Boston Globe 10/19/07
Night of Stars Gala, 2007
“Mikko Nissinen, artistic director of the Boston Ballet, has turned gala-making into something of an art…. This company, it seems, can do almost anything.”
Thea Singer, The Boston Globe 10/13/07
Orange County Fall for Dance Festival
"Val Caniparoli's first act pas de deux from "Lady of the Camellias," captured the pain and exaltation of love...as danced by an energetic duo from Boston Ballet, Romi Beppu (Marguerite) and Nelson Madrigal (Armand), this lovers' first rendezvous demonstrated the exhilarating sweep of classical ballet. Madrigal lifted Beppu overhead twice with such care and ease that you wondered why other dancers have had such a hard time with it."
Laura Bleiberg, OC Register 10/12/07
2007 Spain Tour
“Boston Ballet has presented a work well done, a lesson of quality, in an intelligent and beautiful program that allows one to see the different facets of the great classical dance reformist, Balanchine. The three pieces are extraordinary, the lyricism of “Serenade” the self-assurance of “Who Cares?” and the perfect depiction of “The Four Temperaments” find a perfect answer in the Boston Ballet Company.”
ABC (Madrid)
“Serenade had stupendous moments; The Four Temperaments was pure strong dance, and was the most brilliant performance of the evening.”
El Mundo (Madrid)
"The house was generally sold out during the four-night Madrid run, and the Ballet’s reception was nothing short of rapturous — a standing ovation every time. The dancers deserved it. Nissinen has turned this once-provincial group into an ensemble of international stature."
Christine Temin, The Phoenix 8/7/07
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