Season 2023

Season 2023

Season 2023 marks 60 years of The Australian Ballet.

Join us for a season of time-honoured classical ballets and striking contemporary works that will move, inspire and surprise.

The Dream / Marguerite and Armand

November
The Australian Ballet - The Dream / Marguerite and Armand

The Dream / Marguerite and Armand

Presented by The Australian Ballet

Fri, 10th to 25th November '23 in 6 weeks. Sydney Opera House, Sydney.

A double bill by Frederick Ashton

The Dream

Part one of our Frederick Ashton double-bill is The Dream, an airy, romantic work created to celebrate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth, and a homage to his play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Set in an enchanted wood, Ashton's ballet captures the play's themes of love and magic, exploring a poetic space of imagination away from the ‘everyday world.' Set to Mendelssohn's tender score, The Dream features vivid characters and a storyline transporting audiences to a realm where the human meets the supernatural.

Marguerite and Armand

Created for, and made famous by, the legendary partnership of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in 1963, Marguerite and Armand brings the passion of a tragic affair between the doomed courtesan Marguerite and her lover Armand, framed through a series of flashbacks.
Frederick Ashton created these roles from the passion that Fonteyn and Nureyev embodied when dancing together. In an Australian premiere, this work will equally serve as a vehicle for the artists of this company. Franz Liszt's music pulses through each scene, including his famous Piano Sonata in B minor, enhancing the emotional intensity of this unforgettable ballet.

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Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House

Set below the famous white sails the Forecourt to the south and the Northern Broadwalk both offer patrons stunning harbour and city views and the backdrop for a once in a lifetime event. The Forecourt offers the largest capacity of any Opera House venue and has hosted a number of large-scale concerts including Florence and the Machine and Crowded House as well as welcoming international icons such as Oprah. The Forecourt has a standing capacity for up to 6000 general admission and the Northern Broadwalk has a standing capacity for up to 2400 general admission.
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