CONDUCTOR MISCHA SANTORA
Boston Ballet Orchestra

Emeralds

CHOREOGRAPHY George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust
MUSIC Gabriel Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande
Shylock
COSTUME DESIGN after Karinska
LIGHTING DESIGN Brandon Stirling Baker
STAGING Sandra Jennings

EVELINA GODUNOVA and SCHUYLER WIJSEN
SAGE HUMPHRIES and DANIEL RUBIN

Courtney Nitting, Alexis Workowski, Gearóid Solan

Natalia Cardona, Zoe Cartier, Madysen Felber, Alexandria Heath, Abigail Merlis, Kyra Muttilainen, Layla Porter, Alainah Grace Reidy, Emma Topalova, Sydney Williams

– 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION –

Rubies

CHOREOGRAPHY George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust
MUSIC Igor Stravinsky
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
COSTUME DESIGN after Karinska
LIGHTING DESIGN Brandon Stirling Baker
STAGING Sandra Jennings
SOLO PIANIST Ruoting Li

MADOKA SUGAI and YUE SHI
HALEY SCHWAN

Kaitlyn Casey, Daniela Fabelo, Chenxin Liu, Alexa Malone, Abigail Merlis, Kyra Muttilainen, Courtney Nitting, Layla Porter
Sebastian Bondar, Wesley Miller, Sam Stampleman, Spencer Wetherington

– 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION –

Diamonds

CHOREOGRAPHY George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust
MUSIC Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 3, Op. 29, D Major
COSTUME DESIGN after Karinska
LIGHTING DESIGN Brandon Stirling Baker
STAGING Sandra Jennings

WANTING ZHAO and PATRICK YOCUM

Alexandria Heath, Lauren Herfindahl, Sage Humphries, Haley Schwan
Schuyler Wijsen, SeokJoo Kim, Tyson Ali Clark, Lawrence Rines Munro

Emily Aston, Natalia Cardona, Katie Cerny, Jordyn Crotty, Daniela Fabelo, Madysen Felber, Alexa Malone, Abigail Merlis, Kyra Muttilainen, Alainah Grace Reidy, Emma Topalova, Sydney Williams

Sebastian Bondar, Finn Duggan, Henry Griffin, Pavel Kulev, Wesley Miller, Alexander Mockrish, Alexander Nicolosi, Daniel Rubin, Francisco Schilereff, Sam Stampleman, Spencer Wetherington, Samuel Yuan

World Premiere
April 13, 1967, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater

Boston Ballet Premiere
February 26, 2009, Boch Center Wang Theater, Boston

The performances of Jewels, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique© Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

WITH APPRECIATION
This production of George Balanchine’s Jewels has been made possible by a generous Sponsorship Circle, including lead sponsors Pamela Avedisian, Stephanie Brown, and Katie and Paul Buttenwieser, and supporting sponsors Ashley and Jamie Harmon.

Boston Ballet thanks you for your support of live music performances.

Performance length: Approximately two hours and 10 minutes including two 20-minute intermissions.

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