16 October 2003
In 2003 Boston Ballet celebrated the company’s 40th year. The 2003-2004 celebratory season included a revival of Nureyev’s Don Quixote, the company premiere of Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellia’s, as well as a world premiere by Caniparoli created specifically for Boston Ballet. Also performed were Mark Morris’ Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes and Mikko Nissinen’s first Swan Lake for the company. Boston Ballet also paid homage to the 100th anniversary of George Balanchine’s birth with a performance of Stars and Stripes and adding another Balanchine masterwork to the company’s repertoire, Duo Concertant.
Boston Ballet in Stars and Stripes © The George Balanchine Trust, circa 2004
Photograph by Eric Antoniou
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