American Ballet Theatre Dances Sylvia at the Metropolitan Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera House (New York City, NY)
American Ballet Theatre presents Sir Frederick Ashton's Sylvia. This extravagantly beautiful pastoral ballet, set to a lush score by Léo Delibes, tells the romantic story of a beautiful huntress and a lovelorn shepherd united by the deity Eros.
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- "ABT's Sylvia is an irresistible hit!" --The New York Times
- "ABT has a special gift for the Ashton style of smooth bravura, and it is staging a production that would have delighted the creator himself." --New York Post
- "From the opening moments, it lures you into a quintessentially Ashtonian world of harmonious beauty and luminor charms. The astonishing array of limpid choreography rides effortlessly on Delibes' music." --Newsday
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A ravishing fast-paced fantasy set amid verdant forests and majestic temples, Sir Frederick Ashton's mythological love story unites the huntress Sylvia and a lovelorn shepherd with the divine intervention of the deity Eros. The splendid score by Léo Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed at the time, he would never have composed Swan Lake.