| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 16-May-2013 Boston Opera House | Boston Ballet's Coppélia delights, but gives few chances for stars to shine | Kathryn Maus |
 Beautifully imagined, Boston Ballet’s Coppélia delights with its charming sets, colorful costumes and charismatic leads. A storybook come to life, this ballet tells the fanciful tale of young love gone awry amidst a set of peculiar circumstances true to fairytale form. Coppélia, one of the great comedic ballets of the 19th century, requires suspense of realism on the part of the viewer (as most story ballets do), but once ensnared by its spell, this ballet had me grinning with amusement through to the final curtain.
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| 9-May-2013 Boston Opera House | Boston Ballet's Chroma: A powerful boost for the city's spirit | Kathryn Maus |
 When planning for the 2012/13 season, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen could not have known how incredibly well-timed Chroma would seem for the Boston community. Following last month’s tragic events, the three selections comprising Chroma appear poised to lift the collective Bostonian spirit – it is a program that reflects on the past, reassuring the audience that traditions remain strong but that the future too is bright and brings with it a fresh new outlook.
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| 25-Oct-2012 Boston Opera House | Boston rethinks ballet with the Rolling Stones and a world première by Jorma Elo | Susan Blood |
 Boston Ballet’s Fall Program is a mix of three contemporary pieces, with music ranging from the Rolling Stones to piano and organ arrangements by J.S. Bach and electronica by Thom Willems. It began and ended on an upbeat, bookending a thoughtful (and thought-provoking) world première centerpiece.
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| 3-Nov-2011 Boston Opera House | Boston Ballet's production of John Cranko's Romeo & Juliet | Susan Blood |
 In John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, the story moves beyond star-crossed lovers and becomes a study of contrasts and conflicting forces. With set and costume design by Susan Benson, Boston Ballet's production of Romeo and Juliet adds layers of nuance to an old story, giving the audience much to ponder after the final bows.
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| 29-Oct-2011 Boston Opera House | Boston Ballet's "Night of Stars" lights up the 2011/12 season | Susan Blood |
 In the opening remarks of Boston Ballet's “Night of Stars” Saturday night, Executive Director Barry Hughson thanked the audience for filling the seats and concluded “we will not let you down.” The curtain then opened on an evening of artistic diversity so finely executed, there remained no doubt that Hughson spoke the truth.
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| 12-May-2011 Boston Opera House | Balanchine and Robbins at Boston Ballet | Susan Blood |
 If you "don't get” ballet, you may be thinking too hard. In the words of one friend who went to see Boston Ballet's Balanchine/Robbins program with me on opening night, “you look past it and it appears.” While many ballets tell a story or convey a theme, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins encourage us to appreciate beauty for the sake of beauty. We don't try to understand a moonrise, after all.
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| 30-Apr-2011 Boston Opera House | Bella Figura in Boston | Susan Blood |
 A friend of mine once said “life is ugly. I want art to be beautiful.” I would add to that “life tells us enough stories. I want ballet to let my mind breathe.” As much as I love the story ballets, I seem to need poetry more than prose these days. Choreographers like William Forsythe, Helen Pickett and Jiří Kylián are fluent in the poetry of movement and give all the breathing room one could wish for. In their recent program, Bella Figura, Boston Ballet was in turns meditative, stylized, comical, exotic and mysterious.Read full review... | ||
