Bloomfield College Westminster Arts Center (BCWAC) is proud to present the Metropolitan Repertory Ballet (MRB) to our area for the first time. The company is the third largest classical ballet company in New York and has previously performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in NY, The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas and in New Jersey at the Baker Theatre in Dover, Morris County. BCWAC is pleased to welcome them to Essex County as a main staple in the Dance Series this season, which is sponsored in part by Provident Bank Foundation.
Sinatra Meets Swan Lake
WHEN: Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 8 PM
WHERE: 449 Franklin Street (at the corner of Franklin and Fremont Streets), Bloomfield
TICKETS: $20, Seniors/Students(w/ID) $15.
To make reservations please call 973.748.9008, x279, or online www.bccommunity.org/westminster
This ballet company was originally founded in 1992 by the late Mrs. Camilla Volpe and is now under the artistic direction of her daughter, Leonora Volpe, a principal dancer who is distinguished as having been the last prima ballerina to dance under the direction of the late Igor Youskevitch, who is considered to be one of the twentieth century’s greatest male dancers. MRB also has the distinction of having the internationally-celebrated maestro, Anton Coppola, as the company’s music director. The ballet company was created to preserve and develop the art of classical ballet and has received critical acclaim for its many works through the years.
“I saw a production of Swan Lake in St. Petersburg, Russia last year and was completely moved by the production,” said Westminster Managing Director Gregory Allen. “Ms. Volpe has remarked that the MRB version of Swan Lake is the closest to the original choreography one will see when they travel to that country. I can’t wait to see what they bring to the Westminster stage.”
Not only will audiences be entertained by excerpts from the Tchaikovsky classic, but MRB will include a second half of the evening full of Sinatra music; bridging two very different worlds of classical Russian and American swing music. The evening will have something for everyone.
Volpe was principal ballerina under Viktor Litvinov, who choreographed the ballet, Cinderella, of which the American rights are owned exclusively by Metropolitan Repertory Ballet. Cinderella was performed in the United States by the Ukranian National Ballet and the English National Ballet.
