The Kennedy Center - Opera House (Washington, DC)
Based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company. Returning to the Kennedy Center for the first time in three years, the Company performs Kenneth MacMillan's three-act narrative ballet Manon, based on the classic French novel Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost and set to music by Massenet.
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This was one of the best things I've ever seen on stage; it was like grand opera in ballet form.
Great event!!
Amazing.
The Opera House is the second-largest theater in the Center, with 2,300 seats. It was designed for ballet, opera, and musical theater. Over the years, the Opera House has welcomed dozens of the world's great dance and opera companies and has hosted some of the most important artistic events of the last quarter century. With its distinctive red and gold silk curtain, a gift from Japan, and the e
A cautionary tale full of deadly sins, the ballet follows a beautiful young woman whose plan to run away with a handsome student--and with money stolen from her would-be suitor--ultimately turns disastrous. Whisking its doomed lovers from a moonlit Parisian courtyard to a high-society brothel and finally to the gritty streets and swamps of New Orleans, Manon "remains an irresistible combination of immorality, opulence, suffering, and tears" (Financial Times).
Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan
Music by Jules Massenet
Principal Casting (subject to change):
Thu., June 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta
Fri., June 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg
Sat., June 27 at 1:30 p.m. (mat.)
Roberta Marquez and David Makhateli
Sun., June 28 at 1:30 p.m. (mat.)
Mara Galeazzi and Edward Watson
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, located on 17 acres overlooking the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is America's living memorial to President Kennedy as well as the nation's busiest arts facility, presenting more than 2,000 performances each year. The Center is home to seven theaters: the Concert Hall, the Opera House, the Eisenhower Theater, the Family Theater, the Terrace Theater, the Theater Lab, and the Terrace Gallery. In addition, as part of the Kennedy Center's Performing Arts for Everyone outreach program, free performances take place each evening at 6 p.m. on the Millennium Stage. In addition to offering annual series of the National Symphony Orchestra, theater, ballet, dance, chamber music, jazz, and performances for young audiences, the Kennedy Center presents festivals celebrating the arts and culture of countries and regions around the world. Recent festivals include African Odyssey, AmericArtes, Festival of China, and JAPAN: culture + hyperculture.