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Photos: Boston Ballet's Giselle

Photos from the Boston Ballet's Giselle , opening October 1, 2009

By ERIC ANTONIOU | October 2, 2009

Photo: Eric Antoniou

Erica Cornejo with Nelson Madrigal and a daisy

READ: A review of the opening night of Giselle at the Opera House. By Jeffrey Gantz

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Both ears and the tail for this Carmen
"World Passions," the collection of four works that Boston Ballet opened at the Opera House last night, was more pleasant than passionate until Kathleen Breen Combes sashayed out as the title character in Jorma Elo's Carmen .
Photos: Boston Ballet's World Passions
Photos of the Boston Ballet's "World Passions" collection, including Jorma Elo's Carmen ; Helen Pickett's Tsukiyo ; Viktor Plotnikov's Rhyme ; and Marius Petipa's Paquita.
Slideshow: Ballets Russes at the Wang
Boston Ballet performs "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration" at the Wang Theater
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Both ears and the tail for this Carmen
"World Passions," the collection of four works that Boston Ballet opened at the Opera House last night, was more pleasant than passionate until Kathleen Breen Combes sashayed out as the title character in Jorma Elo's Carmen .
Photos: Boston Ballet's World Passions
Photos of the Boston Ballet's "World Passions" collection, including Jorma Elo's Carmen ; Helen Pickett's Tsukiyo ; Viktor Plotnikov's Rhyme ; and Marius Petipa's Paquita.
Slideshow: Ballets Russes at the Wang
Boston Ballet performs "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration" at the Wang Theater
No place like home
The first thing audiences see when the curtain goes up on Boston Ballet's Giselle is our heroine's charming Rhineland-village home, a rustic abode that in Peter Farmer's set is framed by birches, a symbol of fidelity.
State of the art
Maybe it’s the economy, but Boston Ballet’s third-annual season-opening gala was a sober evening, without the orchestral overture that graced the first two affairs.
Smaller is better
Next fall, Boston Ballet will move all its performing operations to the Opera House from Citi Performing Arts Center's immense and unfriendly Wang Theatre.
Slideshow: Boston Ballet's Jewels
Photos from George Balanchine's Jewels, performed by the Boston Ballet.
The real deal
Nineteenth-century ballets are not all alike. But Boston Ballet's Sleeping Beauty is the real McCoy.
Pas de divorce
It’s been a roller-coaster six weeks at Boston Ballet.
Smaller, bigger, better
Is Boston in the midst of a ballet boom? You could certainly believe that if you attended Boston Ballet’s fourth annual season-opening gala last Saturday.
Definitions
Boston Ballet’s artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, wants us to think of his company as utterly contemporary, but it’s a tricky balance to pull off.
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PHOTOS: BOSTON BALLET'S WORLD PASSIONS | October 26, 2009
Photos of the Boston Ballet's "World Passions" collection, including Jorma Elo's Carmen ; Helen Pickett's Tsukiyo ; Viktor Plotnikov's Rhyme ; and Marius Petipa's Paquita.

PHOTOS: BOSTON BALLET'S GISELLE | October 02, 2009
Giselle at the Boston Opera House

SLIDESHOW: LEONARD COHEN AT THE WANG THEATRE | June 01, 2009
Leonard Cohen stops at the Wang on his World Tour

SLIDESHOW: BALLETS RUSSES AT THE WANG | May 15, 2009
Boston Ballet performs "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration" at the Wang Theater

SLIDESHOW: BOSTON BALLET'S JEWELS | February 27, 2009
Photos from George Balanchine's Jewels, performed by the Boston Ballet.

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