BrightArts & Culture

Bringing Ballet to Brooklyn: The Metropolitan Repertory Ballet

The Metropolitan Repertory Ballet is maintaining its founder’s focus of preserving and developing the classical art of ballet.
Save
Bringing Ballet to Brooklyn: The Metropolitan Repertory Ballet
FRIENDS: (R-L) Marge Champion, Donald Sadler, Louise Kerz, and Jennifer Berghaus smile at the March 5th benefit. Jonathan Weeks/The Epoch Times
Updated:
<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/ballet1_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/ballet1_medium.jpg" alt="THE BALLET: Jennifer Berghaus (far right) and Leonora Volpe (right center) stand with two other members of the Metropolitan Repertory Ballet Company. (Jonathan Weeks/The Epoch Times)" title="THE BALLET: Jennifer Berghaus (far right) and Leonora Volpe (right center) stand with two other members of the Metropolitan Repertory Ballet Company. (Jonathan Weeks/The Epoch Times)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-83293"/></a>
THE BALLET: Jennifer Berghaus (far right) and Leonora Volpe (right center) stand with two other members of the Metropolitan Repertory Ballet Company. (Jonathan Weeks/The Epoch Times)

NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Repertory Ballet is maintaining its founder’s focus of preserving and developing the classical art of ballet, while creating an entirely new genre of dance—ballet/opera. The company is best known for its 1994 Carnegie Hall debut of La Traviata with this new style. The performance was choreographed by Victor Litvinov, director of the state ballet in Kiev, Ukraine.

“Others have tried but it takes a very high level of skill to choreograph dance and song,” said artistic director Leonora Volpe.

Johnathan Weeks
Johnathan Weeks
Author