A Midsummer Night's Dream
The first act follows Shakespeare's familiar story of lovers and fairies. The second act is a classical wedding celebration, omitting Shakespeare's play-within-a-play finale.
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The first act follows Shakespeare's familiar story of lovers and fairies. The second act is a classical wedding celebration, omitting Shakespeare's play-within-a-play finale.
A peddler impersonates the long-absent son of a village mayor to win the mayor’s ward. The true son returns in disguise, exposing the impostor and resolving the courtship.
Carrasco plans to marry his daughter Quiteria to Camacho against her wishes. Quiteria loves Basilio, who enlists Lucinda and Vivaldo to help him, though Don Quixote’s eccentric behavior upsets their schemes. Basilio pretends to stab himself and asks to marry Quiteria before dying. Once the ceremony is complete, he recovers, and Camacho accepts defeat.
In 1780s Brandenburg, Baron von Felsig returns unexpectedly from New England. Mistaken identities and misunderstandings lead to a traditional happy ending.
A ballet by Peter Martins to Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major.
Scotch Symphony is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, "Scottish". The ballet is inspired by Scotland, and evokes the style of the romantic ballet era, particularly La Sylphide, which is set in Scotland. Scotch Symphony was made for the New York City Ballet, and premiered on November 11, 1952, at the City Center of Music and Drama.
In the forest outside Athens, Oberon, king of the fairies, fights furiously with his wife Titania, as they both want the same young Indian in their entourage. Oberon decides to punish Titania for her insolence and sends his servant, the mischievous fairy Puck, to look for a pansy: the dew of the flower, poured into the eyes of sleeping Titania, will make her fall in love with the first person she will see when she awakens. Meanwhile, Oberon and Puck meddle in the lives of four mortal lovers who wander into their path. Much confusion ensues, between the four mortals as their loves intertwine, and within a troupe of actors, one of whom is turned into a donkey to become Titania's lover. In the end, Oberon and Titania make peace, and Puck brings things back to their natural order.
The first act follows Shakespeare's familiar story of lovers and fairies. The second act is a classical wedding celebration, omitting Shakespeare's play-within-a-play finale.
A peddler impersonates the long-absent son of a village mayor to win the mayor’s ward. The true son returns in disguise, exposing the impostor and resolving the courtship.
Carrasco plans to marry his daughter Quiteria to Camacho against her wishes. Quiteria loves Basilio, who enlists Lucinda and Vivaldo to help him, though Don Quixote’s eccentric behavior upsets their schemes. Basilio pretends to stab himself and asks to marry Quiteria before dying. Once the ceremony is complete, he recovers, and Camacho accepts defeat.
In 1780s Brandenburg, Baron von Felsig returns unexpectedly from New England. Mistaken identities and misunderstandings lead to a traditional happy ending.
A ballet by Peter Martins to Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major.
Scotch Symphony is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, "Scottish". The ballet is inspired by Scotland, and evokes the style of the romantic ballet era, particularly La Sylphide, which is set in Scotland. Scotch Symphony was made for the New York City Ballet, and premiered on November 11, 1952, at the City Center of Music and Drama.
In the forest outside Athens, Oberon, king of the fairies, fights furiously with his wife Titania, as they both want the same young Indian in their entourage. Oberon decides to punish Titania for her insolence and sends his servant, the mischievous fairy Puck, to look for a pansy: the dew of the flower, poured into the eyes of sleeping Titania, will make her fall in love with the first person she will see when she awakens. Meanwhile, Oberon and Puck meddle in the lives of four mortal lovers who wander into their path. Much confusion ensues, between the four mortals as their loves intertwine, and within a troupe of actors, one of whom is turned into a donkey to become Titania's lover. In the end, Oberon and Titania make peace, and Puck brings things back to their natural order.