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The Australian Ballet with Berkeley Symphony in Graeme Murphy’S Swan Lake Music by Pyotr Il’Yich Tchaikovsky Swan Lake: Ballet in Four Acts , Op Thursday, October 16, 2014, 8pm Friday, October 17, 2014, 8pm Saturday, October 18, 2014, 2pm & 8pm Sunday, October 19, 2014, 3pm Zellerbach Hall The Australian Ballet with Berkeley Symphony in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake Music by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Swan Lake: Ballet in Four Acts , Op. 20 (1875–1876) y b s u B ff e J David McAllister AM, Artistic Director Libby Christie, Executive Director Nicolette Fraillon, Music Director and Chief Conductor The Australian Ballet acknowledges the invaluable support of its Official Tour Partners, Qantas and News Corp. The Australian Ballet’s 2014 tour to the United States has been generously supported by the Talbot Family Foundation and by The Australian Ballet’s International Touring Fund. These performances are made possible, in part, by Corporate Sponsor U.S. Bank, and by Patron Sponsors Deborah and Bob Van Nest, and Anonymous. Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. CAL PERFORMANCES 19 Cal Performances thanks for its support of our presentation of The Australian Ballet in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake. PLAYBILL PROGRAM Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake Choreography Graeme Murphy Creative Associate Janet Vernon Music Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): Swan Lake , Op. 20 (1875 –1876) Concept Graeme Murphy, Janet Vernon, and Kristian Fredrikson Set and Costume Design Kristian Fredrikson Original Lighting Design Damien Cooper PROGRAM Act I Scene I Prince Siegfried’s quarters Scene II Wedding festivities INTERMISSION Act II Scene I The sanatorium Scene II The lake INTERMISSION Act III An evening with the Baroness Act IV The lake CAL PERFORMANCES CAST Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake CAST (Subject to change ) Odette Amb er Scott (10/16, 10/18 matinee) Madeleine Eastoe (10/17, 10/19) Leanne Stojmenov (10/18 evening) Prince Siegfried Adam Bu ll (10/16, 10/18 matinee) Kevin Jackson (10/17, 10/19) Andrew Killian (10/18) Baroness von Rothbart Lana Jones ( 10/16, 10/17, 10/18 matinee, 10/19) Laura Ton g (10/18 evening) The Queen Shane Carroll* Prince Consort Matthew Donnelly* Princess Royal Miwako Kubota Princess Royal’s Husband Brett Simon Duke Rudy Hawkes Young Duchess-to-Be Reiko Hombo Earl Chengwu Guo Earl’s Equerry Brett Chynoweth Lord Admiral Colin Peasley* Marquis Jared Wright Baroness’ Husband Frank Leo* Royal Physician Tristan Message* Guests, Hungarians, Servants, Nuns, Orderlies, Cygnets, Guardian Swans, Swans Artists of The Australian Ballet Children Students of Berkeley Ballet Theater* * Guest Artist PLAYBILL SYNOPSIS Swan Lake claim her husband, now fully under the sway of the Baroness. Having appeared uninvited at an evening party given by the Baroness, Odette’s calm beauty and confident purity of N THE EVENING before her wedding, the Oapprehensive young maiden Odette wan - spirit caused Siegfried to fall deeply in love dered the palace and became doubtful of her with her. The jealous Baroness attempted to betrothed Prince Siegfried’s love. have Odette returned to the sanatorium, but After the wedding Odette, so very much before she could be seized, Odette fled into in love with her new husband, realized it was the night. a certain Baroness who really owned his heart. Siegfried discovered the terrified Odette Already fragile, Odette became so distressed near the lake and for a short time the couple that by royal command she was committed to were united in ecstatic embrace. But even as a sanatorium. she lay in the arms of her husband, Odette With her spirit broken, Odette could only knew there would be no peace for her ever- find escape in a frozen dream where swan-like troubled mind and she was only to find ulti - maidens, much like herself, would calm her mate release in the depths of the dark lake fevered mind and where, for a brief time, it of swans. seemed as if Siegfried loved her alone. For the rest of his life, Prince Siegfried Some months later, Odette left the white never loved again, but mourned ever his loneliness of the sanatorium to seek and re - lost Odette. PLAYBILL CAL PERFORMANCES COMPANY ROSTER THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET PRINCIPALS Adam Bull Madeleine Eastoe Daniel Gaudiello Chengwu Guo Kevin Jackson Lana Jones Andrew Killian Ty King-Wall Amber Scott Leanne Stojmenov SENIOR ARTISTS Juliet Burnett Amy Harris Rudy Hawkes Reiko Hombo Ako Kondo Miwako Kubota SOLOISTS Brett Chynoweth Ben Davis Robyn Hendricks Natasha Kusen Brett Simon Jacob Sofer Dana Stephensen Laura Tong Vivienne Wong Andrew Wright CORYPHÉES Dimity Azoury Benedicte Bemet Kismet Bourne Calvin Hannaford Cameron Hunter Jessica Fyfe Ingrid Gow John-Paul Idaszak Brooke Lockett Jarryd Madden PLAYBILL COMPANY ROSTER Heidi Martin Karen Nanasca Christopher Rodgers-Wilson Sharni Spencer Garry Stocks Jared Wright CORPS DE BALLET Imogen Chapman Joseph Chapman Lisa Craig Jasmin Durham Eloise Fryer Rohan Furnell Ella Havelka Drew Hedditch Corey Herbert Richard House Brodie James François-Eloi Lavignac Luke Marchant Cristiano Martino Marcus Morelli Emma McFarlane Amanda McGuigan Rina Nemoto Jill Ogai Simon Plant Mitchell Rayner Kelsey Stokes Valerie Tereshchenko Charles Thompson Sarah Thompson Alice Topp Jade Wood GUEST ARTISTS Shane Carroll Matthew Donnelly Frank Leo Tristan Message Colin Peasley CAL PERFORMANCES ORCHESTRA ROSTER BERKELEY SYMPHONY Joana Carneiro, Music Director FIRST VIOLIN OBOE Franklyn D’Antonio, Concertmaster Laura Griffiths, Principal Noah Strick, Associate Concertmaster Bennie Cottone Matthew Szemela, Assistant Concertmaster Yasushi Ogura CLARINET Emanuela Nikiforova Roman Fukshansky, Principal Candy Sanderson Diana Dorman Lisa Zadek BASSOON SECOND VIOLIN Carla Wilson, Principal Daniel Flanagan, Principal Shawn Jones Karsten Windt, Assistant Principal David Cheng HORN Jiwon Evelyn Kwark Alex Camphouse, Principal Ilana Thomas Stuart Gronningen Sarah Wood Loren Tayerle Joseph Maile Eric Achen VIOLA TRUMPET Tiantian Lan, Principal Cheonho Yoon, Principal Ilana Matfis, Assistant Principal Kale Cumings Darcy Rindt William Harvey Patrick Kroboth Graham Taylor Marcel Gemperli Keith Lawrence TROMBONE Thomas Hornig, Principal CELLO Craig McAmis Carol Rice, Principal Wanda Warkentin, Assistant Principal BASS TROMBONE Krisanthy Desby Kurt Patzner Shain Carrasco TUBA DOUBLE BASS Jerry Olsen, Principal Michel Taddei, Principal Jon Keigwin, Assistant Principal TIMPANI Kevin Neuhoff, Principal FLUTE Emma Moon, Principal PERCUSSION Melanie Keller Ward Spangler, Principal Victor Avdienko PICCOLO Jim Kassis Stacey Pelinka Timothy Dent HARP Wendy Tamis, Principal PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS A graduate of The Australian Ballet School, Perth-born David McAllister AM ( Artistic Director ) joined The Australian Ballet i n 1983. He was promoted to Senior Artist in 1986 and to Principal Ar tist in January 1989 . His many principal roles with the company in - OR MORE THAN five decades, The cluded those in Onegin , Romeo and Juliet , La FAustralian Ballet has been defining the Fille mal gardée , The Sleeping Beauty , Don face of ballet in the Asia Pacific region. Quixote , Coppélia , Manon , La Sylphide , Founded in 1962, the company is one of the Sinfonietta , and Stepping Stones . I n 1985, he busiest ballet companies in the world, present - won a Bronze Medal at the Fifth International ing approximately 1,000 performances and ed - Ballet Competition in Moscow, and was sub - ucation events throughout Australia each year. sequently invited to return to the USSR as a Artists and artistic staff of The Australian guest artist, where he made numerous ap - Ballet, past and present, share the confidence pearances with the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov to take risks, a spirited attack and the belief Ballet, Georgian State Ballet, and other com - that technique on its own is never enough. panies. He has also guested with the National Versatility, technical excellence and a warm, Ballet of Canada, Birmingham Royal Ballet, friendly style are trademarks of The and Singapore Dance Theatre. In London in Australian Ballet, qualities that earn both crit - 1992, he danced in a Royal Gala performance ical and audience acclaim. of Coppélia in the presence of the Princess The Australian Ballet’s diverse repertoire of Wales. reflects the company’s vision: caring for tra - Mr. McAllister became Artistic Director of dition, daring to be different. Classical works The Australian Ballet in July 2001 . are regularly performed, as well as contempo - rary works by major Australian and interna - Nicolette Fraillon (Music tional choreographers—from Petipa to punk Director and Chief Con- and Balanchine to Bangarra. The company ductor ) began her has a commitment to investing in new com - music studies on violin missions that explore the development and and piano at an early future of this dynamic art form. age, furthering her in - The Australian Ballet looks different today, strumental studies at significantly taller and more culturally di - the Hochschule für verse, just as Australian society is different. Musik in Vienna and in Over the years, dancers and teachers have Hannover. In 1990, she been welcomed from China, Japan, England, moved to the Netherlands, where she became France, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Assistant Musical Director for the 1991–1992 States. New ballet school graduates from season of Les Misérables , was invited to con - Asian, Latin American, and European back - duct for the Nederlands Dans Theater, and grounds are helping to make the company became Music Director and Chief Conductor look like a snapshot of contemporary of the National Ballet of the Netherlands. Australia. The Australian Ballet is a company During the following five years, she worked attuned to its time and place in the world. with countless orchestras in northern Europe CAL PERFORMANCES ABOUT THE ARTISTS before taking up the position of Director at the Adelaide-born Janet School of Music, Australian National Vernon AM ( Creative University, and continuing her conducting Associate ) studied at work with several Australian orchestras. The Australian Ballet She débuted with The Australian Ballet in School and has danced 2002, and in 2003 was invited by David with The Australian McAllister to become Music Director and Ballet, Ballets Félix Chief Conductor. Since joining the company, Blaska (France), and Ms.
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