New York City Ballet: All Balanchine I

New York City Ballet and New York City Ballet Orchestra

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EDT)

David H Koch Theater, New York, NY, United States

$54-$240

Igor Stravinsky — Apollon musagète ("Apollo") (part of 'Apollo')
Giuseppe Verdi — Don Carlos (Act III; part of 'Ballo della Regina')
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Swan Lake, Op. 20, No. 19a: Pas de deux (part of 'Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux')
Christoph Willibald Glück — "Ballet" from Orfeo ed Euridice (part of 'Chaconne')

A feast for Balanchine devotees. The oldest Balanchine ballet in the repertory, the neoclassical masterwork Apollo, first staged in 1928, leads a bill that traces the choreographer's work across an astonishing half-century. Also on the program is the exhilarating Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, a supremely stylish dance created to music originally written for Swan Lake. And representing the latter years of Balanchine's career are two dances created in the 1970s: the vivacious Ballo della Regina, with its quicksilver choreography and sprightly music by Giuseppe Verdi, and the entrancing Chaconne, which includes a memorably beautiful pas de deux and a thrilling ensemble finale, set to music drawn from Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.