Performances
Ballet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
George Balanchine
From 8 to 16 July 2027
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company and Orchestra With the participation of Ballet School students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy Lyric Opera soloists of the Teatro alla Scala Academy Treble Voices Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Academy Teatro alla Scala Production |
| Choreography | GEORGE BALANCHINE |
|---|---|
| © The George Balanchine Trust | . |
| Music | FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY |
| Sets and costumes | LUISA SPINATELLI |
| Lights | ANDREA GIRETTI |
| Conductor | SIMON HEWETT |
In brief
Twenty-three years of Italian and international success; after more than one hundred performances, and ten years after its last staging, the Ballet Company of La Scala brings back “its” A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Presented in its European premiere in 2003, with new sets and costumes by Luisa Spinatelli, thanks to this new production and the interpretation of the La Scala artists, Balanchine’s Dream came back to life more radiant than ever: not a restoration — as has been said — but almost a rebirth from its first performance in 1962 in New York City. With absolute genius, George Balanchine conceived two ballets in one: the first act, narrative in nature, develops the Shakespearean story, while the second, a long divertissement, exalts the purest technique and the geometric perfection of the choreographic design. Among elves and fairies, kings and queens, lovers, goblins and enchantments, dance shines forth in the enchanted night born from the imagination of William Shakespeare and Balanchine’s choreographic mastery.
