27 March 1997
Boston Ballet became the first American company to present the full-length ballet The Pirate (Le Corsaire), with choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev (after Petipa). This version of the ballet had never been presented by any company outside of the Soviet Union and Boston Ballet became the first non-Russian company to perform the complete work. Natalia Dudinskaya returned to Boston to set the piece, her fourth for Boston Ballet.
Adriana Suárez and Patrick Armand
Photograph by Jaye R. Phillips
Boston Ballet Archives