He wishes to marry his love, Columbine, but her father rejects him as too poor and keeps her locked up. Lucky for him, he is one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers and the artist in residence at American Ballet Theater. If he wants to rescue an antique ballet from the archives — say, “Les Millions d’Arlequin,” a 1900 work by Marius Petipa, the foremost choreographer of 19th-century Russian ballet — money appears. “Harlequinade,” Mr. Ratmansky’s reconstruction for Ballet Theater of that two-act Petipa antique, had its debut at the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday. The large cast, led by James Whiteside and Isabella Boylston and including 34 adorable children from the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, was excellent, ably displaying all that Mr. Ratmansky has restored with affectionate care.

Source: New York Times June 05, 2018 18:22 UTC