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Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Created by renowned director/choreographer Susan Stroman, Contact's three engaging stories depict the pursuit of life's most elemental connection with another human being: love. The sheer ingenuity of the choreography creates a romantic, breathtakingly beautiful and totally unique fusion of music, theatre and dance. A major new production by Asolo Rep in collaboration with The Sarasota Ballet, Contact is a scintillating thrill for the soul as well as the senses. |
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October 23 - November 22 |
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Royal Ballet stars Alina Cojucaru and Johann Kobborg guest as the doomed village maiden and her princely lover in Sir Peter Wright’s internationally-acclaimed production of the greatest of Romantic ballets, with hunting parties and the ghostly moonlit forest.
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Sarasota Opera
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November 27 - 29
Fri 8:00
Sat 2:00 & 8:00
Sun 2:00
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Robert de Warren’s enchanting version of Tchaikovsky’s evergreen family treat: a family party, mouse king and nutcracker prince, midnight transformations, pine forests, snowflakes and sugar plums… the perfect Christmas fare.
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Sarasota Opera
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December 4 - 5
Fri 7:00
Sat 2:00 & 7:00 |
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PAQUITA
OTHELLO
The essence of Shakespeare’s Venetian tragedy of jealousy and poisoned love is perfectly captured in Peter Darrell’s short ballet to Liszt’s stirring Faust Symphony.
BOUTIQUE
Matthew Bourne’s witty update of Diaghilev’s toyshop fantasy, to Rossini’s deliciously tuneful score, finds a bridal couple in search of a wedding dress in London’s Swinging Sixties… a light-hearted comedy of fashion and manners.
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January 29 - 31
Fri 8:00
Sat 2:00 & 8:00
Sun 2:00 |
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VESPRI
Prokovsky’s sparkling divertissement is danced to Verdi’s “Four Seasons” ballroom music from the 1855 opera I Vespri Siciliani.
COLLECTION OF PAS DEUX & SOLOS
Including Anna Pavlova's THE DRAGONFLY and THE BRONZE IDOL from La Bayadere
I NAPOLETANI
Choreography by the Resident Choreographer Dominic Walsh
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February 19 - 21
Fri 8:00
Sat 2:00 & 8:00
Sun 2:00
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ROCOCO VARIATIONS
Renato Paroni interprets with Mozartian elegance and Balanchinean style Tchaikovsky’s tribute to eighteenth-century aristocratic entertainments.
THERE WHERE SHE LOVED
Christopher Wheeldon emotionally captures the joys and sorrows of passion in contrasting songs of love and loss (performed live by singers of the Sarasota Opera) by Chopin and Kurt Weill.
PINEAPPLE POLL
Cranko’s rumbustious nautical comedy sees its feisty heroine in eager pursuit of HMS Hot Cross Bun’s dashing Captain Belaye, with an irresistible score of tunes from Gilbert & Sullivan.
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Sarasota Opera
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April 2 - 3
Fri 8:00
Sat 2:00 & 8:00 |
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DONZETTI VARIATIONS
A classic ballet from the great master George Balanchine draws on music from the king of Italian bel canto opera .
WORLD PREMIERE
THE INFERNAL GALOP
In this “Franglais Spectacular”, Matthew Bourne cheekily spoofs 1930s and 1940s France, from sailors, street bands and Paris fashions to the infernal can-can, all set to the distinctive chansons of Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet et al.
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April 23 - 25
Fri 8:00
Sat 2:00 & 8:00
Sun 2:00 |
*Season programming subject to change
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