Despite beautiful work by the company’s dancers, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s opening-night performance of “Coppélia” last weekend was stolen by some lesser-known names. Two dozen coral-tutu’d young ...

A fairground organ wheezes out Swanilda’s lilting waltz, and the curtains part on a pleasing pale grey marble courtyard. It is a weird story, under its pink prettiness - seriously, why is Franz ...

If marches and waltzes are inherently Viennese, Mazurkas are intrinsically Polish and nocturnes are forever Irish at their core, much of the world’s greatest ballet music will always be associated ...

"Frantz meets Swanilda. Frantz and Swanilda fall in love. Then Frantz meets Coppélia." That's the deceptively simple plot of the ballet "Coppélia," which, with a score by Léo Delibes, made its debut ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The classic 19th century ballet “Coppélia” tells a small story — of a mischievous girl in love with a callow boy tucked up in a little town in Galicia, once a minor kingdom between ...