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SERENADEMusic: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Choreography: George BalanchineStaging: Melissa Hayden

Costume Design: Karinska*Lighting Design: Ross Kolman

ALICIA FABRY LARA O’BRIEN RANDI OSETEK

KIEFER CURTIS MARCELO MARTINEZ

Taylor Ayotte Kathleen Black Carmen Felder Amanda GerhardtAbby Grossen Macy Murray Sophie Nelson Elizabeth Ousley Jenny Palmer

Sarah-Anne Perel Alyssa Pilger Sara Roe Jacqueline SchillerAllie Swartz Ainslie Vaillant-McDonald McKenzie Van Oss Lauren Wolfram

Sam Ainley Raum Aron Gens-Ostrowski Christian Gutierrez Ike Hawkersmith

Intermission

4 LAST SONGSMusic: Richard Strauss

(Four Last Songs*)Choreography: Robert Weiss

Costume Design: Kerri L. Martinsen Scenery and Projections: Jeff A.R. Jones

Lighting Design: Ross Kolman

ONEFRÜHLING / SPRING

A WOMAN 1948: MELISSA PODCASYand the Entire Cast

*Costumes courtesy of the Nevada Ballet Theatre, Roy Kaiser, Artistic Director

The performance of Serenade, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the

Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established by the Trust.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2018, 2PMRaleigh Memorial Auditorium

SPONSORED BYWITH 4 LAST SONGS

AND IN THE GRAY

TWOSEPTEMBER

THREEBIEN SCHLAFENGEHEN / GOING TO SLEEP

FOURIM ABENDROT / AT SUNSET

A PAIR OF LARKS:CARMEN FELDER SOKVANNARA SAR

*Four Last Songs: by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes Inc., publisher & copyright owner.Sung by Renée Fleming

Intermission

IN THE GRAYMusic: Philip Glass – Violin Concerto No. 1*

Choreography: Zalman RaffaelCostume Design: Kerri L. Martinsen

Lighting Design: Ross Kolman

JAN BURKHARD

AMANDA GERHARDT YEVGENY SHLAPKO

KATHLEEN BLACK SOPHIE NELSON SARA ROE LAUREN WOLFRAM

NICHOLAS FOKINE RAUM ARON GENS-OSTROWSKICHRISTIAN GUTIERREZ LUKE POTGIETER BILAL SMITH

*Violin Concerto No 1 by Philip Glass. ©Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission.

THE WOMAN IN 1922: AMANDA GERHARDT

HER MAN: MAXMILIAN ISAACSON

THE WOMAN IN 1903: SARA ROE

HER MAN: SAM AINLEY

THE WOMAN IN 1932: ASHLEY HATHAWAYHER ROSES:

TAYLOR AYOTTE, SOPHIE NELSON JACQUELINE SCHILLER

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