Houston Ballet Soloist Danbi Kim as Raymonda in the world premiere of Stanton Welch’s Raymonda. Credit: Photo by Amitava Sarkar (2025). Courtesy of Houston Ballet. Raymonda is the story of an engaged ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet’s incoming artistic director, has half updated the 19th-century work for English National Ballet. By Laura Cappelle ...
In the opening scene of SF Ballet’s “Raymonda,” a man shoots a woman. Then he steps out from behind his camera. Like a phrase whose double meaning is only revealed when you read it aloud, the initial ...
For San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, choosing a frequently performed warhorse such as “Swan Lake” as the first work she would choreograph for the company was never in the cards.
The Boston Ballet premiered Mikko Nissenen’s reimagined one-act version of “Raymonda” as part of their Winter Experience this February. “Raymonda” stands alongside “The Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake ...
The great Marius Petipa, aged 80 when he crafted the steps, was on a creative roll following the success of The Sleeping Beauty and channeled half a century’s experience into the final work of his ...