That said, over 50 years on, the story of Manon (familiar from two different, similarly-titled operas), does seem a curious choice for 2025. It’s a tale of an impoverished Parisian convent girl who ...

SF Ballet’s "Manon" is a striking display of the provocative — bursting with romance, action, drama, comedy and dripping in opulence; here seems to be something enthralling for all adult audiences ...

Classical ballet is such a curious art form. It’s something like 500 years old (give or take a century), it’s almost absurdly formal and stylized (I mean, the women dance on the tips of their toes for ...

When San Francisco Ballet presented its “British Icons” program of works by the great English choreographers Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan during the 2024 repertory season, the ...

Roll on half a century and that teenage seductress is up there with Juliet, Giselle, Aurora and Odette-Odile – the most coveted as well as the most technically challenging roles in the canon – while ...

One of the UK’s leading Ballet Companies. The young and na?ve Manon is torn between two lives: privilege and opulence with the wealthy Monsieur GM, or innocent love with the penniless student Des ...

First performed in 1974 and celebrating its 40th anniversary, this production is the second in this year’s season following The Royal Ballet’s. In Regency Paris, bourgeois society gorges itself on ...

Houston Ballet is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year but in some respects still looks the pretty pup. All four leads in the season-opening performance of Manon on Thursday were dancing their ...