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

LIA CIRIO and PATRICK YOCUM
LAUREN HERFINDAHL and LASHA KHOZASHVILI

Emily Aston, Kaitlyn Casey, Lawrence Rines Munro

Natalia Cardona, Zoe Cartier, Katie Cerny, Alexandria Heath, Kyra Muttilainen, Layla Porter,
Alainah Grace Reidy, Emma Topalova, Sydney Williams, Alexis Workowski

– 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

CHISAKO OGA and SUN WOO LEE
CHYRSTYN MARIAH FENTROY

Kaitlyn Casey, Daniela Fabelo, Madysen Felber, Chenxin Liu, Alexa Malone, Abigail Merlis, Courtney Nitting, Layla Porter
Wesley Miller, Gearóid Solan, 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

VIKTORINA KAPITONOVA and SANGMIN LEE

Emily Aston, Kaitlyn Casey, Chenxin Liu, Courtney Nitting
Wesley Miller, Daniel R. Durrett, Sun Woo Lee, Gearóid Solan

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

Sebastian Bondar, Finn Duggan, Henry Griffin, Pavel Kulev, Alexander Mockrish, Alexander Nicolosi, Daniel Rubin, Francisco Schilereff, Sam Stampleman, Spencer Wetherington, Schuyler Wijsen, 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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