This performance has been staged during the Opera Festival 2017. Visit the program page to see what's scheduled for the next Opera Festival!
The special Ballet event Roberto Bolle and Friends returns to the Arena for the 95th Arena Opera Festival. The international étoile will perform once again in the suggestive setting of the amphitheater with an exclusive program designed for the Arena stage.
An extraordinary evening dedicated to the timeless elegance of classical ballet and the creativity of modern dance.
Fondazione Arena in cooproduction with Artedanza s.r.l.
ACT ONE
Ballet 101
Choreographer: Eric Gauthier
Music: Eric Gauthier, Jens-Peter Abele
Etoile: Roberto Bolle
Special Guest: Francesco Pannofino
Don Chisciotte
Act III - Pas de deux
Choreographer: Marius Petipa
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Etoiles: Misa Kuranaga, Daniil Simkin
Caravaggio
Pas de deux
Choreographer: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Bruno Moretti (da Claudio Monteverdi)
Etoiles: Melissa Hamilton, Roberto Bolle
Penumbra
Choreographer: Remi Wörtmeyer
Music: Sergej Rachmaninov
Etoiles: Anna Ol, Young Gyu Choi
La Bayadère
Pas de deux
Choreographer: Marius Petipa
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Etoiles: Polina Semionova, Roberto Bolle
ACT TWO
Take me with you
Choreographer: Robert Bondara
Music: Radiohead
Etoiles: Melissa Hamilton, Roberto Bolle
Esmeralda
Pas de deux
Choreographer: Marius Petipa
Music: Cesare Pugni
Etoiles: Anna Ol, Young Gyu Choi
Carmen
Pas de deux
Ballet by Roland Petit
Music: Georges Bizet
Etoiles: Polina Semionova, Roberto Bolle
Les Bourgeois
Choreographer: Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Music: Jacques Brel
Etoile: Daniil Simkin
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Music: Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij
Etoiles: Misa Kuranaga, Herman Cornejo
Rencontre
Choreographer: Massimiliano Volpini
Music: composed and played by René Aubry
Visual effects: Staff s.a.s.
Etoiles: Melissa Hamilton, Roberto Bolle
ROBERTO BOLLE
Teatro alla Scala, Milano / American Ballet Theatre, New York
YOUNG GYU CHOI
Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam
HERMAN CORNEJO
American Ballet Theatre, New York
MELISSA HAMILTON
The Royal Ballet, Londra
MISA KURANAGA
Boston Ballet, Boston
ANNA OL
Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam
POLINA SEMIONOVA
Staatsballett Berlin, Berlin
DANIIL SIMKIN
American Ballet Theatre, New York
