Birmingham Royal Ballet have announced their 2006-7 Birmingham performances. The highlight has to be the wonderful all Balanchine/all Stravinsky triple bill in February, followed by a completely new production of Cyrano to a new score by Carl Davis. It's also good to see BRB continuing with their very popular Sunday performances.
Full details as follows:
Romeo and Juliet (ch MacMillan)
September 30m, 30e
October 4m, 4e, 5e, 6e, 7m, 7e
The Nutcracker (ch Wright, Ivanov, Redmon)
November 24e, 25m, 25e, 26m, 28m, 28e, 29e, 30m, 30e
December 1e, 2m, 2e, 3m, 5e, 6m, 6e, 7e, 8e, 9m, 9e, 10m, 12m, 12e, 13m, 13e
Cyrano (ch Bintley)
February 7e, 8m, 8e, 9e, 10m, 10e
Agon, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Symphony in Three Movements (all ch Balanchine)
February 14m, 15e, 15m, 16e, 17m, 17e
Coppelia (ch Petipa, Cecchetti, Wright)
June 6e, 7m, 7e, 8m, 9m, 9e
The Four Seasons (ch Hindle), Nine Sinatra Songs (ch Tharp), Pineapple Poll (ch Cranko)
June 13e, 143m, 14e, 15e, 16m, 16e
m=matinee, e=evening
Evening performances at 7.30
Midweek matinees at 2.00
Saturday matinees at 2.30
Sunday matinees at 4.00
The touring programme will be announced later, although the repertory is likely to be the same.
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