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Re-creating Corsaire.(Review)

From: Dance Magazine  |  Date: 6/1/1999  |  Author: FANGER, IRIS

Boston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre's hit revival of Le Corsaire is dance's answer to the spectacles of Broadway and Hollywood.

The trajectory from nineteenth-century St. Petersburg to contemporary New York City is hardly surprising for a full-length ballet trailing the name of Marius Petipa, but the reception to Le Corsaire last year at American Ballet Theatre's spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House took the company unawares. The opening-night audience was ...

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