The Kirov Ballet of the Maryinsky Theatre The Metropolitan Opera House New York, New York July 8-20, 2002
Sometimes in ballet, everything old is new again. To open the Lincoln Center Festival 2002, St. Petersburg's Kirov Ballet presented a six-week-old production of Marius Petipa's 1877 ballet La Bayadere, produced as closely as possible, in its choreography, Leon Minkus music, and scenery and costumes, to the way the ballet looked in 1900 at Petipa's last staging. The ...